New Orleans Netroots has become a big event for the digerati, especially the subset involved in internet campaigning and the like. This year they held their annual confab in New Orleans. In August, believe me on this, the Morial Convention Center makes some deals to bring people into the city, and, thank goodness, they brought …
Month: August 2018
Oh, No! Jerry Jones and the Anthem Again!
New Orleans Around the globe, football means soccer, and the recently concluded quadrennial World Cup was its showcase. In America, football is a different thing altogether, especially when it comes to the endless draft-to-summer-to-exhibition-to-regular season-to-playoffs-to-Super Bowl, National Football League on the professional level. Once again, as exhibition games get ready to begin, we’re having …
Digital Poorhouse
Columbia Daily reports of hacking and contentious debates about privacy or the lack of it are now commonplace. Reports are already on the front page of the papers about the fact that Facebook is even now alerting the FBI that certain groups have been formed to try to manipulate voters before the 2018 midterm elections …