Influencers overtaking journalists as news source: report

1 year ago

TikTok influencers and celebrities are increasingly taking over from journalists as the main source of news for young people, according…

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

1 year ago

Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the…

Proofreading matters. (For the record, Blanche actually said, “We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty.”)

1 year ago

I make mistakes on my blog all the time. But I'm not CNN. (Check out the line under the photo.)…

Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second Life

1 year ago

Years ago I spent some time in Second Life, taking my young son to visit a display of NASA rockets…

How to promote your laser skin clinic effectively

1 year ago

I rather miss teaching HTML and doing my own web design on the side. These days, when my students propose…

‘Anti-dopamine parenting’ can curb a kid’s craving for screens or sweets

1 year ago

A good article about kids and dopamine.  Apps and sweets can hijack the neural pathways we need to survive, triggering tantrums…

We ask 3 Broadway photographers: How do you turn a live show into a still image?

1 year ago

Great story about the art of photographing theatre performances. Given that the choreographers and lighting designers and set designer and…

The ChatGPT Lawyer Explains Himself

1 year ago

As Mike Edwards notes, "AI doomers will eagerly tweet this article, unaware that it's not about the dangers of LLMs:…