PHIL SIMON
Here’s a simple way to weed out these bots and clowns.
Category: Social Media
“Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society; they are a challenge to it.”
―Clay Shirky,
Category: Social Media
Power, Prestige TV, and Packages
The forces I describe in The Nine continue to collide. Get used to it.
Why I Have Never Visited My Rate My Professor Page
And why I never will.
My Latest HBR Article on the Benefits of Friction
In an excerpt from my latest book, I describe how one company used analytics and Agile methods to largely solve a thorny problem.
Why I Barely Tweet Anymore
From ten times per day to ten times per month.
Big Data and Hype: Where Are We Now?
Checking in on its current adoption.
The Vast Data Sources of the IoT
Think that only human beings generate a boatload of data? Think again.
What I Learned Writing for Inc.
Lessons from my year as a scribe at an über-popular site.
Why is Google resurrecting Plus? In a word, data.
The data wars are far from over.
Why I Despise the Term ‘Influencer’
The term implies that influence is a binary, not a continuum.