Tag: tools

Dark Patterns

Welcome back, friends. Thank you to all of you that regularly (or irregularly) reach out and say hey each week. I value learning how you’re doing in your worlds. This week I published the following: Healthy Avatars and Sick People – A piece about the challenges of critical digital literacies in the context of health…

Skip Straight to the Recipe With This Chrome Extension

Skip Straight to the Recipe With This Chrome Extension

As I search online for recipes, I’ve been a bit unnerved as you need to scroll, scroll, and scroll to find the actual recipe hidden at then bottom of a post underneath tons of content and ads. This Chrome extension strips all of that away and saves you time. SOURCE: Lifehacker

Unknown Tech Brands Aren’t Like Groceries. Don’t Just Grab Them.

Unknown Tech Brands Aren’t Like Groceries. Don’t Just Grab Them. by Brian X. Chen (nytimes.com)

It’s time to stop using technology and the internet as though you were shopping at a supermarket.

It’s time to stop using technology and the internet as though you were shopping at a supermarket. In a grocery store, you can reasonably assume that the food labels are accurate and the products safe to eat, because the food industry is heavily regulated. The handling of personal digital information, in contrast, is loosely regulated. There…