Digital Media Project: Last.fm Spelunker

For my non-written element that I’ve created/remixed, I’d like to talk about a personal project of mine: last.fm-spelunker. Context In its simplest form, last.fm is a service that records your...

Critique: Google Map's Moat

This post is a critique of Justin O’Beirne’s blog post “Google Map’s Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps?” found here. Justin O’Beirne wrote this sometime late...

Is Facebook Listening?

Disclaimer: this article isn’t in any way a defense of Facebook or its data collection methods, which I personally believe are immoral. A few weeks ago, when I mentioned to...

Data-Driven Music Curation

The history of music listening is the history of culture. Back when radio was how most people discovered new music, radio DJs were the gatekeepers. Whatever they chose to play...