Once Ad Fraud Hits the Billions Does It Even Register?
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It’s finally happened; Jay-Z is officially a billionaire. But his aren’t the only billions making news lately, as the ad industry reels from the massive amount of fraud still being perpetrated. “A new report released Monday by cybersecurity company Cheq...
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Want to Live Longer and Be Healthier? Put Down Your Phone
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Well if this doesn’t encourage you to embrace digital minimalism, I don’t think anything will. According to Catherine Price writing in The New York Times, our phones are threatening our health and potentially shortening our lives. “By chronically raising levels...
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World Health Organization Urges No More than One Hour of Screen a Day for Kids
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Get your kids vaccinated. Use the right car seat. Make sure they wear their bike helmets. Oh, and limit their screen time. Most parents willingly act on the recommendations of health and safety officials when it comes to the well-being...
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Publishers Slammed by Latest Google Update
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Traditional publishers are feeling a chill from Google since the middle of last month, according to D. Eadward Tree in Publishing Executive. “Google’s long love affair with traditional, respected publishers may have come to an abrupt end last month,” Tree...
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At Risk: The Dire State of Digital News Archiving
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Are we facing a crisis of public information? According to a new report from The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, the news media is woefully unprepared for preserving news content in the digital age....
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If a Like is So Valuable, Why are They So Cheap?
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There’s a video making the rounds that making a lot of online marketers and the brands who hire them uncomfortable. “Like,” posted by Field of Vision, is an 8-minute long video with a powerful message for marketers (see below). Directed...
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Looking for Real Answers about Smartphones and Teens
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LA Johnson/NPR Teen suicide. Depression. Bullying. Loss of focus. Modern tech – in particular, smartphone use – has been studied as a possible cause for all these alarming changes in young people. Yet Brian Resnick of Vox believes the answers...
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Publishers Cry Foul on Apple’s New Subscription Model
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It was four years ago that D. B. Hebbard railed against Apple and the lousy way they treat magazine publishers. They are at it again … and we wonder what Hebbard would think of this. “Apple's upcoming Spotify-style magazine subscription...
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Why Digital Minimalism is Taking Off
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Marie Kondo set the bar for decluttering our physical spaces. The trend is moving to the workplace too, as experts urge us to declutter our office spaces. But what about our digital lives? Can a radical shift in philosophy there...
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Whoa There, Influencers, It’s Time for a Reality Check
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It’s starting to look like 2019 is the year social media gets a beat-down and a shake-up. From Apple blocking an internal Facebook app to calls for increased regulation on social platforms, it appears the public has finally had it....
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