Ben Werdmuller
  • About
  • Notable links
  • For newsrooms
Sign in Subscribe
General

Also ...

Ben Werdmuller Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller

28 Sep 2005

... Seb Paquet's icon cracks me up every time. "I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!" happy sigh

Thank you. The technical director will now return to his hole.

Read more

More people get their news from social media than anywhere else - globally. The platforms we use matter.

"For the first time, social media and video networks are, on average across the markets covered, more popular than both TV and owned news websites and apps as sources of news."

18 Jun 2026

AI answers are a new vector for election disinformation

For years, people have used social media to seed disinformation in order to swing elections. Now, the answers our search engines and expert systems produce have become more vulnerable.

18 Jun 2026

The honest truth about leaders who want to replace their workers with AI

"The problem tends to show up when a CEO is handed an agentic tool like Claude Code, and has it create something, which will work just fine, and thinks “oh, wait, why do we need so many people, when I can just sit here and make things work?” This is a bad CEO."

10 Jun 2026

To build the future, we need theories of change

News tends to treat technology as something that happens to it, like an asteroid. To better navigate the future, we need to imagine what might come next.

10 Jun 2026
Ben Werdmuller Ben Werdmuller
Mastodon
Bluesky
Threads

Subscribe to new posts

Ben Werdmuller explores the intersection of technology, democracy, and society. Always independently published, reader-supported, and free to read.