Author Archives: Elizabeth Ford

Buzzfeed Unsolved ARG: Was that a Good Idea?

  ARGs ARG stands for alternate reality game, and I’ve written articles on them before. [...]

Raid: Shadow Legends and Shotgun Marketing

  How did this mobile game come to dominate every corner of advertising?   The [...]

Small Sites Vs. A Big Internet

Art projects   Some little art project websites deliberately avoid indexing their page, so it’s [...]

Why do Recipe Websites Give you an Essay Before the Recipe? Or, the ~Magic~ of Ads.

  Cookbooks. They’re great. They don’t have to load their contents, and they usually contain [...]

Gaming and Gambling: Microtransactions And Lootboxes

Gambling is widely considered an adult activity, and for good reason. It’s addictive, it has [...]

Reasons to Recycle your Phone

  1.Lithium batteries are not biodegradable.   In general, modern materials don’t really degrade much. [...]

How do RFID chips work?

Definitions   RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification, and it’s usually used in the context [...]

AI Remastering – Sometimes, It Looks Bad

Computers can do incredible things, but sometimes the things they work on still need a [...]

Different Kinds of Screens

There are many different screens. From gigantic vacuum-tube TVs to the flattest of the flat [...]

The World of Crypto Scams

Yep – it’s mainstream now. What is Cryptocurrency? A cryptocurrency is a digital currency protected [...]