AI Content Creation Problems: Creating Misinformation Through AI Manipulation

AI Content creation has become a fad among SEO practitioners, people attempting to get their pages and sites ranked higher on search engines. It's...

How I simply dealt with Blog Spam

Wouldn't you know it? You put a form up online and the next thing you know, bots are sending you spammy messages through the...

Something Fishy With Facebook Ads

NOTE: This is a post I wrote back in 2011, but one I hadn't published until now. Many ad features have changed on Facebook...

Advertising and Marketing: The Limiting Reagents in the Business Success Reaction

Chemistry's concepts illustrate truths of the business world. One of those concepts, the degree to which a reaction will proceed, is the concept of...

Untrusted? Get Ugly with your E-mail Designs.

Contrary to what you might think, recipients who get an e-mail from an unknown source are more likely to open it when it looks...
spiders are cool

Live Alongside Spiders because Spiders Are Cool

Spiders get the bugs that bite us but that we can't see. Spiders are cool. Spiders are just another part of the bigger network...

Where Viral Falls Short

Something is viral when it numbers increase rapidly using its audience to propagate itself. The Wikipedia definition is a little more elaborate. I myself...

Robots, Shills, Payola, Fake Followers and Likes in Social Media’s Wild West

The Broadcaster's Role Changes Long before there was anything called Social Media, media would pour in one direction only - from the broadcaster to the...

Heroku: the Facebook App Developer’s Big Boon

A few months ago, at the ExactTarget Connections Event, in September, I heard that Facebook was going to make building Facebook Applications easier and...
web 3

What is Web 3? There’s one clear, obvious answer.

What is a meaningful definition of Web 3? Web 3.0 is an emerging stage in web evolution that involves the migration from co-dependency platforms to...