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In Media and Journalism, Content is King, but…

In Media and Journalism, content is King, but today, having good content is not enough. Having unique content is much better, but still, it’s not enough. The journey towards Digital content and revenue can be complex as it requires the right people and…

Low/No-Code in Software-Driven Organizations

Digital transformation means that organizations need to become software-driven. The Low/No-Code (L/NC) approach to software development, a point-and-click, drag-and-drop or configuration-based approach to creating applications, aims to disrupt how this transformation takes place. In this essay, I cover two perspectives on Low/No-Code: the…

The Cold Equations

“You wanted obedience, Cullin — now you have it. You climbed a long way up by forcing human beings to behave like machines. But you were wrong in one respect; no human can ever be forced to behave exactly like a machine, and…

Never violate customer trust

The current debacle with Facebook has been brewing for a while now, and it is very sad. For me it started last year, when I got tired of constant fake news and privacy concerns. Since then I’ve had next to zero activity on…

SXSW 2018, Mobile Monday Austin – In Loving Memory of Carlo Longino

This SXSW 2018 I want to pay tribute to Carlo Longino (@caaarlo): Austinite, mobile pioneer, visionary and supporter, Mobile Monday Austin co-organizer, who passed away last October 2017. He was only 39 years old. At the time I was working in Puerto Rico,…

Thoughts on Fake News, Trust and Reputation Systems

Back in school we learned that “Garbage in” leads to “Garbage out” – also referred to as GIGO. Today we see GIGO all over social media. We’ve been watching the erosion of information quality and its effects on society — the use of…

The Truth

“After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit…

The Web is Broken – On net neutrality and the closed web (2017)

Facebook has done an amazing job getting Billions of users. But that same success (and the users themselves) have helped create a closed Web. I totally get it. Facebook has made it so easy and convenient to create your digital presence, and one…

Huracán María

Dichosa eres Huracán María, dichosa eres, dandole tan duro a Puerto Rico y sus islas vecinas. No tenías que partir a Puerto Rico por el mismo medio, pero lo hiciste. Y destrucción dejaste. ¿Porque no pudiste ser mas dulce con nosotros, María? Pero…

Order within Chaos

“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.” — Albert Einstein The interactions and flows between “two bodies” or…