By Ruth Vitale
Whether or not Santa Claus is part of your winter holiday tradition, you are almost certainly aware of his infamous “list.” You know, the thing that he “checks twice” and through some calculus known only to him, determines who on it has been “naughty or nice.” This year, I have... Read more
By Philippe Carcassonne and Ruth Vitale
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is the protagonist in a propaganda war about the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. One of the directive’s stated aims was to ensure that hosting sites such as YouTube step up to their responsibility to discourage the uploading of creative copyright... Read more
By Justin Sanders
It’s time for another installment of our semi-regular round-up of brilliant commentary about the endlessly burning dumpster fire that is Big Tech! When we last checked in, Facebook and Google were trying to outdo each other on losing our trust, exploiting their users, and evading accountability. Since then, Facebook has taken... Read more
By Justin Sanders
With their band The Kin, Isaac and Thorald Koren have toured the world with the likes of Pink, Coldplay, and Rod Stewart. At one time, not so long ago, they were bringing their signature brand of high-energy yet introspective alternative rock to crowds of 20,000 people and more – even... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
When I was making my way through the independent film world of the ’90s, there was film piracy. It was hard work then – though not as difficult as making the film itself, mind you. A pirate had to set up multiple VCRs to dub one scratchy VHS tape to... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
In 2009, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a Business Insider interview that his prime directive to his developers and team was to “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” Zuckerberg would later update that uplifting little motto to the far... Read more
By Richard Schenkman
In 2007, I made a tiny, speculative science-fiction film called The Man from Earth. Scripted by the late, great writer Jerome Bixby, it tells the story of a history professor who reveals to his colleagues that he is a 14,000-year-old Cro-Magnon who has walked the Earth for millennia. I had... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Welcome back to our semi-regular round-up of brilliant commentary about the endlessly burning dumpster fire that is Big Tech. The last time we checked in on what’s wrong with Big Tech, the Federal Trade Commission was about to kick off a historic series of “Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection... Read more
By Ruth Vitale
Typos are annoying. In fact, there’s no one that hates typos more than me, Ruth Vitale. Ask anyone that works at CreativeFuture. Really. But, at the same time, I trust that most people are smart enough to get by and understand what a writer meant when the mistake is minor.... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Google, and its parent Alphabet, have always shown a remarkable ability to maintain consumer goodwill – their reputation remains strong and their market cap immense despite a litany of misdeeds that would likely have seriously bruised, if not floored, most other companies. What kinds of misdeeds? Harvesting user data en... Read more