analytics Here's how many people are currently on government websites, according to the government Rob Beschizza

demetrification Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts Cory Doctorow

work avoidance Analyzing 800 daily tweets that say "Today was the day that Donald Trump became president" Cory Doctorow

there is nothing harder to kill than an idea whose time has come to pass Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reaches more people on Twitter than the press and establishment Democrats Cory Doctorow

red queen's race Blame Big Data for CVS's endless miles of receipts Cory Doctorow

distributed measurement Now that Trump's FCC has killed Net Neutrality, we all need to participate in instrumenting the net to document violations Cory Doctorow

zombies and bots A census of leading Italian politicians' Twitter followings finds a horde of zombies and bots Cory Doctorow

adpocalypse averted Apple's long-awaited podcast data-transparency reveals an ad-listening audience with no clear format-preferences Cory Doctorow

noscript Web analytics companies offer "replay sessions" that let corporations watch every click and keystroke for individual users Cory Doctorow

Jason Statham Time to Statham Punch Rob Beschizza

gigo Big Data Ethics: racially biased training data versus machine learning Cory Doctorow

phrenology Ted Cruz campaign hires dirty data-miners who slurped up millions of Facebook users' data Cory Doctorow

electronic art Disembodied mechanical random clickerfinger Cory Doctorow