Short form content is everywhere nowadays, with Tiktok, Instagram reels and Youtube shorts seemingly grabbing our collective attention span with an iron fist. At least that’s...
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Music Streaming: A Perspective
I sometimes wonder how people like my dad viewed music when he was my age. These days, I can open Spotify and listen to anything from...
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Introduction At the time of writing this, the 2024 US presidential election is just around the corner. With Trump facing off against Harris, it is a...
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I am a simple man; when I see a cat video coming by on YouTube shorts recommendations I click on it. For a whole 25 seconds,...
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Back in the day, the idea of controlling computers with our minds seemed just far from reality. The only times we saw something like that was...
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The Twitch Streamer as a Digital Jester
We all know the image of the court jester: a funny little guy dressed in bright colors and a silly hat, maybe doing a weird-looking dance...
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Kids are becoming social media stars, often without understanding the impact. Parents of “kidfluencers” profit from their children’s online presence, but unlike child actors, these kids lack protections. The result? A childhood turned into a performance, with lasting emotional and financial consequences.
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One of the most heard words, if not the most heard word, in the programming scenery is ‘create’, along with its inflections. However, only a programmer...
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Chasing Fame in the Digital Age
And boom you’re famous. It happens all the time on the internet nowadays. especially with social media like TikTok. Some of my friends experienced this when...
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For the vast majority of human history, we lived in relatively small communities, often with only minor religious differences that made it easy to communicate with...
Continue reading...A Black Hole: The Apple Ecosystem
It would be fair to say that many companies develop their ecosystems within their digital products. One of the most commonly recognized ones is The Apple...
Continue reading...Byte-Sized History: Key Milestones in Digital Media
Since harnessing the power of digits, we’ve been able to do a bunch of cool stuff with it. It hasn’t even been 100 years, and we’ve...
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I am once again back in my room, typing on my computer. As per usual, I have put on a record to listen to as I...
Continue reading...A mobile game made me feel old
After I just finished reading some mandatory literature in the university library, I walked down to the cafeteria to eat my lunch. As I start eating...
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On our Christmas holiday we went to California with the whole family. My brother who is three years older than me saved up a lot of...
Continue reading...The Chess-boom of 2021
This isn’t just a story about a boring old board game. This is a story about how a worldwide pandemic, a hit Netflix series, a scandal...
Continue reading...A digital journey to ‘Empresses in the Palace’
“Empresses in the Palace” (Chinese: Zhen Huan Zhuan) is a Chinese historical drama series adapted from the novel of the same name by the author Liu...
Continue reading...How YouTube brought me here
My first YouTube experience At the time of YouTube’s launch, I was four years of age. Though I most certainly did not use it at that...
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