Month: July 2014

Road to Publication: Questions to Ask Before Building an Artist Website

On By Patrick RossIn Committed: A Memoir, Internet, Social media, Technology47 Comments

I've owned a personalized domain name (patrick-ross.com) for about fifteen years, but have done little with it during that time. For the past four years I have focused on this free WordPress site instead. But with Committed: A Memoir of the Artist's Road publishing this October, I knew it was time to do something with …

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Internet Companies Don’t Serve Us; They Sell Us

On By Patrick RossIn Facebook, Internet, Social media, Technology20 Comments

Repeat after me: We are not Facebook's customers; we are their product. This sentence has been in my head ever since first noticing the kerfuffle surrounding Facebook in the wake of the publication of an article documenting how--prepare to be shocked--the company conducted experiments on how they presented our news feeds to see if they …

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