For the wellbeing of our planet, our country, ourselves and all people, education must do more than just prepare people to have jobs. In places where citizens have the right and responsibility to vote, it’s imperative that they understand what they’re voting
The Rise and Fall of Yellow Marketing
In the early 20th century, when William Randolph Hearst was building his media empire, access to information about the world was controlled by a relatively small number of media outlets. Hearst’s newspapers were able to influence public opinion and world
Giant Little Mistakes
Shortly before ending his campaign for the Republican nomination for President, Jeb Bush’s staff made the biggest mistake you can make as a web publisher. They forgot to renew one of the campaign’s internet domain names, jebbush.com. To make matters worse,
Do We Need IoT?
Ever since the beginning of the Internet, people have been connecting ordinary household objects to it. In the early days of the Web, webcams were extremely popular. The first webcam was the Trojan Room coffee pot, which was pointed at a
Computer Science is a Liberal Art
There is a tendency today for people who aren’t programmers or IT professionals to joke about their lack of computer skills. It is not uncommon to hear an otherwise brilliant person remark something about not being able to figure out their iPhone
Is this normal?
Our society tends to see artists or writers and people who love what they do as “different”. We often label these people as insane or wild exceptions to the “rule” (partly based on whether or not they’re successful). If you
What is “The Cloud”?
You hear a lot about cloud computing and things being ‘in the cloud’ these days. It’s become a magical term to describe just about everything having to do with computing. But, what do marketers and computer people mean when they
Paul Graham, Income Inequality, and the Silicon Valley Myth
Paul Graham, famous venture capitalist and founder of Y Combinator, just wrote an essay defending income inequality. In fact, he not only defends income inequality, he espouses the “great benefits” it holds and the power it puts into the hands
Are You Socially Credit-Worthy?
In China, a new social credit system, sponsored by the government, has been implemented called Sesame Credit, which is part of the giant Chinese eCommerce company, Alibaba (which is still part of Yahoo!). Here’s how it works: Users of the system
The WatzThis? Plan
Here at WatzThis?, we don’t work particularly hard. Instead, we tend to put great concentrated effort toward one or two important things, and we spend A LOT of time planning. Our headquarters currently has 2 whiteboards, one large paper flip chart,