Category: Web Development

Mark Weidenbaum writing for Disquiet: Social media is “social.” Blogs are “web logs.” Social media expects feedback (not just comments, but likes and follows). Blogs are you getting your ideas down; feedback is a byproduct, not a goal. As a content creator on social media, you do not really control the channel. You do not…

Elizabeth Dwoskin and Gerrit De Vynck reporting for the Washington Post: Experts in free speech and technology said … issues are connected to a broader problem: overzealous software algorithms that are designed to protect but end up wrongly penalizing marginalized groups that rely on social media to build support. Black Americans, for example, have complained…