Posted on March 29, 2025 2:36 pm by Shel Holtz | Ethics | Legal | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Over the years, I have authored or co-authored six published books. Every one of them is in LibGen—Library Genesis—the shadow library project that provides unfettered access to written material. Meta used LibGen to train Llama, its open-source generative AI model.
I’m fine with that.
I know a lot of my peers disagree. That’s fine with me, too. I understand their objection. But I do have a different…
Posted on January 19, 2018 9:10 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Instagram | Advertising | Audio | Brands | Business | Facebook | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | Research | Search | Transparency | Twitter
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TWiT is suing Twitter—TWiT—Leo Laporte’s podcast network anchored by This Week in Tech—has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging breach of contract and trademark infringement. Laporte says he and Twitter…
Posted on January 5, 2018 4:38 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | The Workplace Experience | Content | Instagram | Brands | Business | Facebook | Internal | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Politics | PR | Publishing | Social Media
Happy New Year! Let’s kick off 2018 with the first edition of the Friday Wrap. As always, I choose the items to appear in the Wrap from those I have curated into my link blog, which you’re welcome to follow. To make sure you never miss an issue, subscribe to >my weekly email briefing..
You’ll soon be able to embed Snapchat Stories on your…
Posted on November 22, 2017 6:17 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Instagram | Pinterest | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | Facebook | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Politics | PR | QR Codes | Research | Social Media | Technology | Trust | Twitter
It’s the Wednesday Wrap! Knowing the holiday weekend is upon us, I decided to combine the items that would have appeared in a Friday Wrap last week with those I have collected so far this week (so there will be no Wrap on Friday). I extract items for the Wrap from my link blog, which youre welcome to follow. To make sure…
Posted on November 10, 2017 6:27 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Instagram | Advertising | Audio | Brands | Business | Content Curation | Ethics | Instant Messaging | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | Publishing | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Twitter | Video
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Twitter doubles character count—Twitter has officially expanded the character count for a tweet to 280 characters. Most of those testing the new limit in late September didn’t generally take advantage of the longer count,…
Posted on October 13, 2017 11:43 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Content | Instagram | Brands | Business | Content Curation | Crisis Communication | Ethics | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | RSS | Social Media | Twitter
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AOL is shutting down Instant Messenger—Two decades ago, it revolutionized online communication: You could actually chat with someone else without using email. Twenty years later, AOL is permanently closing AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). The…
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