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President Trump: Keep Your Peter (Thiel) Out of Our Politics (FDA)

March 1, 2017 President Trump: Keep Your Peter (Thiel) Out of Our Politics (FDA) From left to right, Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, and Peter Thiel The name Peter Thiel means many things to many people. To Silicon Valley, he’s the co-founder of Paypal-turned -venture capitalist and Facebook board...

Social Media, The Supreme Court & The Sociopathic Business Model™

June 1, 2015 Today the Supreme Court overturned the conviction regarding online threats. The Supreme Court on Monday made it harder to prosecute people for threats made on Facebook and other social media, reversing the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who directed brutally violent language against his...

5 Things Managers Should Never say to Employees

  Updated: October 15, 2014 Apple and Facebook's new healthcare perk of egg freezing reminded me that male managers need to be reminded they should never use the word "womb" or bring it up in the workplace. February 19, 2014 An article in U.S. News, discusses 10 things not...

How Would You Like Your Eggs? Frozen

October 16, 2014 Images from Cafe Johnsonia #PRSPin Employee Egg Freezing Earlier this week it was released that Facebook and Apple are offering egg freezing to female employees as an employee perk. Images from Cafe Johnsonia #PRSpinUnSpun  Employee Egg Freezing As someone who worked in a male dominated startup field where the mentality was...

#AskIslamicState Are Algorithms Unethically being Blamed for Censorship?

August 22, 2014 UPDATED: #AskIslamicState #CalamityWillBefallUS on Twitter Below original story UPDATED: September 10, 2014 with additional analytic information comparing Google, Bing and Yahoo! Trending on Twitter for a while, the hashtag #womenshould, behind the very popular awareness campaign from UN Women, cast doubt on the Google autocomplete algorithm.  Originally #Ferguson was not trending on...

Are Advertisers “Consciously Uncoupling” with Facebook?

Any startup has a lot of questions to answer in the beginning stages and certainly one of the most important involves the revenue stream.  I know the cool kids think that advertising on sites are the devil but a customer's ROI cannot be an afterthought....

How Do You Get Your News?

According to the Associated Press (AP):   I was shocked to learn that television is still the number one news source but not too surprised to learn tablet was a close second. As the full article states most people use multiple sources throughout the week.  No mention...