Freelance Digital Marketing Consultant
As if the digital world couldn’t get any more chaotic, Meta’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced that Facebook and Instagram will be dropping fact checking. According to the BBC, Meta’s chief executive said that third-party moderators were allegedly “too politically biased” and that he’d be effectively following the Elon Musk doctrine at X, formerly Twitter, … Read more
As has been mentioned before on here, the metaverse has been around for over 30 years. It all started, at least in name, in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash – go and read it if you haven’t already and be ready for a televised version, it’s a story that needs to be visualised so that … Read more
For fans of Neal Stephenson’s seminal work “Snow Crash”, the metaverse has been part of our digital consciousness for nigh on thirty years. A portmanteau of the word “meta”, from the Greek meaning “after” or “beyond”, and “universe”, the metaverse is an exciting yet not fully defined virtual world. Whilst Snow Crash is still yet … Read more
I was chatting with Mick Dickinson of BuzzedUp.co.uk yesterday, discussing how the landscape has changed in marketing trends, particularly with regards to social media. Mick’s particular case, from a few months back, was of an “old skool” marketing guy failing to keep up with the times. This resonated with an experience I’ve had just this … Read more