Perhaps you’ve heard of the Peter Principle, the notion that competent people rise in their jobs until they reach a point where they DON’T know what they’re doing. I.e., they’re promoted to the level of their incompetence. Did the opposite happen to now-former Trump...
Read More »This list got completely out of hand this time, so I’ll try to do these weekly until the election. Note: I included only a sampling of the available “public figure posts horrible thing on social media” stories, so multiply each of the many below by several. Don’t do this:...
Read More »A hacked Twitter account won’t likely swing an election — but we should still act like it could. Not just campaigns, either: Facebook, Twitter and the other platforms need to prepare like the important infrastructure they’ve become. The people behind last week’s targeted...
Read More »Check out the top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the last two weeks published by the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns, using data from our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their pages. By these metrics...
Read More »I blew up Epolitics.com a couple of days ago, and I feel fine! Actually, I feel fine that real techies could step in and save the day — and the database. I’d put off essential website maintenance for way too long, in this case including a PHP upgrade and a transition to HTTPS secure...
Read More »Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the current Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, using data from our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their pages. By these metrics...
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