Apple Expects Users To Replace Their iPhone, Apple Watch After Three Years
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slashdot @ apple.com...
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04/16/16 
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The structure expects consumers behavior 'X'. Consumers behave 'X'. Production expands.
(Q. #2 of How does Apple conduct its Product Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle Assessment?": "To model customer use, we measure the power consumed by a product while it is running in a simulated scenario. Daily usage patterns are specific to each product and are a)
More answers to your questions about Apple and the environment.
Who leads environmental efforts at Apple?
Apple is committed to addressing climate change, to developing green materials for safer products, and to using materials as efficiently as possible... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Technological Determinism,Behavior Creates Structure,Services become Games)
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Vaping linked to host of new health risks
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ScienceNews...
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02/23/16 
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Tobacco-derived products in vapes and sniffs still carry significant mortality risks.
(Mortality, as in "this stuff will kill you.")
WASHINGTON — Many people have turned to electronic cigarettes in hopes of avoiding the heart and cancer risks associated with smoking conventional tobacco products. But vaping appears far from benign, a trio of toxicologists reported February 11 and 12 at ... (Trends: Behavior Creates Structure)
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The Ad Industry Is Finally Promising To Make Online Ads Less Terrible
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HuffingtonPost...
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10/16/15 
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And we believe them, right? Right? Right after this message.
()
Alexander Howard
Senior Editor for Technology and Society, The Huffington Post
The impact of Apple’s ad blocking technology on the future of the Internet came faster than we might have expected. On Thursday, the Internet Advertising Bureau acknowledged... (Trends: Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized,Behavior Creates Structure)
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Is It Content or Is It Advertising?
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Ad Age...
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10/12/15 
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"Content Marketing Is Red Hot, but It's a Term That Is Increasingly 'Overused and Underdefined'" [ya think?]
("The overall U.S. market for content marketing was more than $67 billion in 2014, according to PQ Media. By way of comparison, the U.S. TV ad market is around $70 billion." [And it tastes just like real content.))
By Jack Neff; October 12, 2015.
Reprints Reprints
Ad Age Reports
Sponsored White Paper Browsing & Buying Behavior By Category: 2015
Did you know 40%+ shoppers impulse buy and 71% in-store phone usage is checking prices? Gain deep understanding of c... (Trends: News to Meta News,Print to Electronic to ?,Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Known Source to Crowdsource,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Creation to Aggregation,New Value Moment,Technological Determinism)
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Wisconsin citizens organizes to attract greater technology to their neighborhoods
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broadbandnow.org...
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05/11/15 
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good example of user=initiated demand for higher tech
()
BroadBandNow was started in November, 2010 as a group of neighbors in Webster Township, Michigan trying to get the local telecom companies to extend broadband access to their neighborhood. They shared a common concern that the digital divide between the br... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Infrastructure to Nonfrastructure,Behavior Creates Structure)
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How 'spontaneous' social norms emerge
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Science Daily/UPenn...
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02/03/15 
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A scientific explanation has been provided by researchers for how social conventions -- everything from acceptable baby names to standards of professional conduct -- can emerge suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, with no external forces driving their creation.
((Hmmmmm.))
To understand how social norms arise, Damon Centola and Andrea Baronchelli invented a Web-based game, which recruited participants from around ...
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Credit: University of Pennsylvania
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Fifteen years ago, the name "Aide... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Behavior Creates Structure)
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One-Third of Top Websites Restrict Customers’ Right to Sue
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NYT...
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10/23/14 
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Tort Determinism, or "Sue Me Later".
(Curiously, this is the part of the deal which demands consumer in-attention.)
By Jeremy B. Merrill
Walk into the grocery store, and you can sue if a clumsy clerk drops a box on your head. But what happens if a website leaks your personal data? Or if an online retailer misleads you about the cost of a purchase? Depending on the si... (Trends: Privacy is a feeling,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Behavior Creates Structure)
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Programmatic advertising: Advertising Is About To Get A Lot More Persona
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FORBES...
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10/09/14 
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Why is YOUR browser slow now? And why will IT get slower?
(If you can see the Web, it can see you.)
By Dorothy Pomerance
Remember in the movie Minority Report how ads followed Tom Cruise around the city addressing him by name? We’re getting a lot closer to that world.
Advertising is reaching an inflection point. In the old days, brands used the spr... (Trends: News to Meta News,Information overload vs ability to comprehend,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Creation to Aggregation)
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Blendle: How the 'iTunes of journalism' reached 100k users
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JournalismUK...
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09/04/14 
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Sign up all the publishers, sell it to subscribers as an aggregate.
(Distribute the local news globally without impacting the local advertising value?)
By: Abigail Edge
Dutch news aggregator Blendle has signed up every newspaper and magazine in Holland, and is helping them to reach new and younger audiences.
"People want to read articles or want to follow specific journalists but aren't particularly... (Trends: Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Creation to Aggregation,Nameplate to Disembodied,The Renaissance of Copyright,Centralized to Distributed,Geography to Topic)
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Shopping Made Psychic: No-Content Marketing Marches on
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Huffington Post...
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08/25/14 
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Let the Robot do the shopping!
(That's what might happen when the "sheer volume of content drives its value below zero".)
by Spencer Critchley, Boots Road Group in Huffington Post.
A while back, I predicted the coming of no-content marketing: what comes next after the sheer volume of content drives its value below zero. That's the point at which we start paying to avoid co... (Trends: News to Meta News,Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized,Technological Determinism,Behavior Creates Structure)
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False facts and the conservative distortion machine: It’s much more than just Fox News
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Salon...
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08/18/14 
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It's not news that it's not news.
(It's also not news that it's not surprising. See the research abstract at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.12102/abstract)
By Paul Rosenberg, Salon
Citizens are misinformed — often badly so. It’s not just that they lack good information — which would merely make them uninformed — they have plenty of bad information that leads them to believe untrue things. Or more likel... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Data to Meta News,Solo to Swarm,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Research,Services become Games)
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This Is Why Data Journalism Is Failing
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Forbes...
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06/06/14 
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Data without context can be a briar patch. Required also are the experience and expertise to interpret the data.
(The dirty little secret of disruptive innovation is that the disruptors themselves rarely prosper.)
By Greg Satell.
Journalism has been thoroughly disrupted over the past decade. News organizations, especially newspapers, have come under heavy financial pressure, news bureaus have been closed or consolidated and journalists have had to rethink their... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Creation to Aggregation,Geography to Topic,Technological Determinism)
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Tweet Opinion Detector
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ScienceDaily...
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12/02/13 
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This group "analyzed hundreds of thousands of microblogging messages containing comments, sentiments and opinions about food and brand products."
(" The team's system harvested millions of tweets and used a computer algorithm to automatically extract the sentiment from those tweets.")
Nov. 28, 2013 — A European collaboration has analyzed thousands of microblogging updates to help them develop an opinion detector for data mining the social media lode and extracting nuggets of information that could be gold dust for policy makers, marketi... (Trends: News to Meta News,Data to Meta News,Known Source to Crowdsource,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Creation to Aggregation)
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Flipboard says that it really wants to help publishers, not take advantage of them
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GIGAOM...
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10/20/13 
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Fllipboard analysis, biz models
()
by Mathew Ingram Some publishers seem to feel that Flipboard’s business model is based on taking advantage of their free content, but the company argues that what it really wants to do is help them stay in business
tweet this
There’s been a kind of li... (Trends: Print to Electronic to ?,Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Data to Meta News,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Creation to Aggregation,Behavior Creates Structure)
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Flipboard says that it really wants to help publishers, not take advantage of them
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GIGAOM...
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10/20/13 
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Fllipboard analysis, biz models
()
by Mathew Ingram Some publishers seem to feel that Flipboard’s business model is based on taking advantage of their free content, but the company argues that what it really wants to do is help them stay in business
tweet this
There’s been a kind of li... (Trends: Print to Electronic to ?,Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Creation to Aggregation,Nameplate to Disembodied,Behavior Creates Structure)
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Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults
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PLOS ONE...
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09/03/13 
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Results indicate that Facebook use predicts negative shifts on both of these variables over time.
(The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel? Now that's interesting.)
Abstract
Over 500 million people interact daily with Facebook. Yet, whether Facebook use influences subjective well-being over time is unknown. We addressed this issue using experience-sampling, the most reliable method for measuring in-vivo behavior an... (Trends: Shared to Solo,Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Privacy is a feeling,Information overload vs ability to comprehend,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Behavior Creates Structure)
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Is the Internet Just Another Example of Monopoly Capitalism At Work?
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TechPresident...
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06/28/13 
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BY MICAH L. SIFRY, who has head firmly stuck in an ideological perspective.
("McChesney doesn't quite get the Internet. Again and again, in Digital Disconnect, he conflates the free and open net with the larger digital ecosystem, eliding or underplaying important distinctions between the actions and ambitions of big tech and commun)
Monday morning, during the opening session of the MIT-Knight Civic Media conference, Sue Gardner, the outgoing executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, made a bold statement that quieted the room full of digerati.
"We are not lost, but I think we... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource)
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Scrubbed: Reputation from disgrace to redemption in months
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NYMag...
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06/18/13 
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I watched online as a college classmate went from disgrace to redemption in months. That’s when I found myself deep in the world of black-ops reputation management.
(Long story about reputation scrubbing by erecting networks of false praise to drown out bad news.)
By Graeme Wood
On November 29, 2010, federal agents in San Francisco arrested a 33-year-old New Yorker named Samuel Phineas Upham, setting in motion the chain of news reports that are responsible for Google’s autocompleting his name in the following w... (Trends: Privacy is a feeling,Known Source to Crowdsource,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Property Rights vs. Human Rights,Services become Games)
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Don’t Panic, But We’ve Passed Peak Apple. And Google. And Facebook.
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Xconomy.com...
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06/18/13 
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The Big Companies have matured. Time for the next paradigm shift.
(The next IT paradigm shifts won’t be from the same players who brought us the last few.)
WADE ROUSH
June 14th, 2013
After the dot-com crash in 2001, the tech world needed a few years to regroup. But starting around 2004, the year Facebook was founded and Google went public, the winds of innovation in consumer- and business-facing technolo... (Trends: Consumption to Creation,Research,Technological Determinism,Behavior Creates Structure)
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Yahoo files patent for social influence-based advertising
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BBC...
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06/14/13 
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Readers Valued For Their Connections
(Everything you know is not only wrong, but they know that you know it. )
By Leo Kelion
Technology reporter
Using social influence scores could help Yahoo offer more targeted adverts to marketers
Continue reading the main story
Related Stories
Facebook and Yahoo end patent row
Flickr revamp revealed by Yahoo
Tumblr 'w... (Trends: Privacy is a feeling,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized)
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The Economy and the Media
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Gartner...
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06/08/13 
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How they seem is an increasingly important determinant of how they are. Media has always played this feedback role, but only recently has its public input channel been opened so far and wide, its volume turned up so high, and its scope and scale been so profoundly global.
(Social media feedback forms a trend amplifies, and the result: How things seem determines how they are. A form of determinism.)
By Andrew Frank.
National Public Radio (NPR) recently ran a feature on its web site called the “Real Economy Project” in which it solicited stories from the audience about how economic conditions were affecting people’s lives. The editors selected peo... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,New Value Moment,Geography to Topic,Research)
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Interest Graph: Why Tumblr Was a Massive Steal for Yahoo
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ALLTHINGSD...
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05/27/13 
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Social Graph Interest Graph. Education graph? Political graph? Possession graph? Criminal graph?
( "Everyone’s Facebook feed is pretty much the same as everyone else’s of the same age."
--- "Readers are far more valuable than writers." )
The blockbuster acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion — all cash — has been portrayed as a gigantic gamble on the part of the acquirer. However, for those of us who believe there can be specific guidelines around the valuation of interest graphs,... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Creation to Aggregation,Geography to Topic)
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How Consumer Messaging Is Going From ‘Push’ to ‘Pull’
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streetfight...
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04/25/13 
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Logging on triggers a "search" of your profile by eager beavers
(Beavers that like to move you into the cash-register line (and chew on would).)
The biggest battle coming in the world of marketing is a 180-degree shift in the routing of commerce-related messages. Today, we call them “advertisements,” one-directional messages FROM somebody with something to sell TO somebody who may potentially be a ... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),New Value Moment)
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The science of fanboyism research
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Cyril Kowaliski ...
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03/14/13 
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I like it because I picked it because I liked it.
(by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:35 PM on July 14, 2011 on alleged study by Jack Brehm in the 1950s See PDF )
We've all encountered them. They lurk in Internet message boards, comment threads, and chatrooms. Addressing anyone and everyone, they type up lengthy tirades with Cheeto-stained fingers, extolling the virtues of their product or brand of choice. They angr... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion)
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Facebook users unwittingly revealing intimate secrets
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UofCambridge...
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03/13/13 
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You're a gay, overweight left-wing Republican. And you 'Like' it.
(Or so it seems.)
Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital behaviour, in this case Facebook Likes. Study raises important questions about personalised marketing and onlin... (Trends: Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public))
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Facebook Changes Outfoxed Users' Privacy Concerns
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CarnagieMellonU...
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03/07/13 
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What consumers think about privacy and how they behave on Facebook are different things.
(Realizing this, Facebook employed game theory to get their way.)
While we've always known that Facebook has the final say in how people use its service, a new study reveals just how effectively the social network can nudge its members to behave in ways Facebook might consider most fitting.
An unprecedented study from... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives
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PoliticalPsycological...
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02/28/13 
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The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Pro?les, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind. (dd: Liberals and conservatives are different because they are different, psychologically. This is the honey that puts the "be" in "behavior."
(Although skeptics continue to doubt that most people are “ideological,” evidence suggests that meaningful left-right differences do exist and that they may be rooted in basic
personality dispositions, that is, relatively stable individual differences in p)
The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives:
Personality Pro?les, Interaction Styles, and the
Things They Leave Behind... (Trends: Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic,Class Warfare,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Republican Brains Differ From Democrats' In New FMRI Study
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PLOSONE...
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02/20/13 
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Left and right react differently, because our brains work differently.
(Related to the Cornell research on dem vs. rep behavior, this show differences in brain processing as well.)
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/19/2013 11:08 AM EST on LiveScience
See original research at PlosOne.org
Whether you pulled the lever for ... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic,Class Warfare,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Raytheon's Riot Is Attention Field Tool
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Guradian...
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02/14/13 
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Can I figure out where you go if I know everything you do?
(Duh....)
Guardian article
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by minin... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Location becomes Central,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Researchers Mine Old News, Web to Predict Future Events
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Parity News...
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02/14/13 
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(We describe and evaluate methods for learning to forecast forthcoming events of interest from a corpus containing 22
years of news stories. We consider the examples of identifying signicant increases in the likelihood of disease out-breaks, deaths, and r)
Microsoft Research has teamed up with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to develop software that can predict events like outbreaks of disease or violence by mining data from old news and the web.
The project, if successful, will result into... (Trends: News to Meta News,Data to Meta News,Mass Media to Atomized)
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The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It
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WIRED...
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02/03/13 
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Metaphors are as important as bones.
(I made that up.)
BY DAVID GELERNTER02.01.13
People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web.
The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It’s already happening, and it all began with the lifes... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,New Value Moment)
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Graph Search's Dirty Promise and the Con of the Facebook 'Like'
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SteveCheney...
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01/17/13 
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A blog post promoted as news on Business Insider
(Why would a search based on a 50% lie be useful?)
We all know that the pressure for Facebook to monetize is massive and growing. Yesterday Zuckerberg fulfilled the promise he dropped at TC Disrupt to release a product that will finally compete with Google. To put socially relevant people, places, interest... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Solo to Swarm,Privacy is a feeling,Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Centralized to Distributed)
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F.T.C. Opens an Inquiry Into Data Brokers
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NYT...
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12/20/12 
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Federal scrutiny of the selling of consumer data.
(Curiously, consumers are also a product, and are created through production.)
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: December 18, 2012
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It’s getting tougher to be a data broker.
Companies that collect, analyze and sell billions of details about the activities... (Trends: Data to Meta News,Privacy is a feeling,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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The Moral Stereotypes of Liberals and Conservatives
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PLOS...
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12/16/12 
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Liberals endorse individual-focused moral concerns, conservatives endorse group-focused concerns of in-group loyalties, respect for authorities, and purity.
()
Introduction Top
“The national Democratic Party is immoral to the core. Any American who would vote for Democrats is guilty of fostering the worst kind of degeneracy. The leaders of this party are severely out of touch with mainstream, traditional America... (Trends: Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic,Class Warfare,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Have media companies destroyed their copyrights with the 'Share'Button?
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paidconent...
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11/25/12 
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Does the Share Button Violate or Destroy Copyrights? Can copying 100% of something be fair use? See Righthaven v. CIO (righthaven llc v. kayse jama, an individual an center for intercultural organizing, a non profit. See
("There’s one basic copyright principle people agree on in nearly every situation-and you don’t need to be a lawyer to figure out: You can’t make a whole, perfect, 100% copy without permission.")
(See Righthaven case brief for context?) Righthaven has become controversial by taking a sue-first-ask-questions-later approach to copyright enforcement on behalf of its newspaper clients, which include MediaNews Group as well as the smaller chain that own... (Trends: Detecting Pedigree Remotely,The Renaissance of Copyright)
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media law 3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up
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ChronicleofHigherEducation...
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11/10/12 
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Aggregating web content into a "pattern" that mimics another's work academic work -- is it a copyright violation?
(I remember thingking that I remembered hearing someone describe a thought that resembled a thought that someone else once described to me, after they remembered something someone once said.)
Open-education resources have been hailed as a trove of freely available information that can be used to build textbooks at virtually no cost. But a copyright lawsuit filed last month presents a potential roadblock for the burgeoning movement.
A group o... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Creation to Aggregation,The Renaissance of Copyright,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Avenues of News Consumption 2012
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TECHCRUNCH...
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11/06/12 
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"...with all of these new services recently launching, it seems to have been kicked into another gear, where the same kernel of information passes through what seems like an infinite maze to reach us in different forms...."
(Good exposition on the consumption of information on the modern web. )
Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been an Official Contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
If there was a time-lapse video chronicling how humans have shared and rece... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Creation to Aggregation)
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Algorithm To Predict Trending Topics On Twitter – Before Twitter
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MIT...
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11/02/12 
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A predictive function that creats meta news (news about the data of news, or data about the structure of data)
(Fundamental concept is that crowdsourced feedback arenas like Twitter amplify patterns, even at the smallest scales, because people seem to follow subtle hints to stay with the herd.)
Predicting what topics will trend on Twitter
A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance and offers a new technique for analyzing data that fluctuate over time.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Twitter’s home page features a regularly upd... (Trends: News to Meta News,Solo to Swarm,Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Known Source to Crowdsource,Information overload vs ability to comprehend,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion)
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Can Twitter Monetize the Cultural Zeitgeist?
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WHARTON...
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11/02/12 
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Pay attention to the Attention Field! Pay! Pay! Attention!
(Share this Article (Links: Share on facebook Share on twitter; Share on email; More Sharing Services))
Published: September 26, 2012 in Knowledge@Wharton
Among social sites, Facebook and Twitter are often mentioned in the same sentence. Both services attract an extensive and ever-expanding base of users. The two are also increasingly competing for consum... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized,Synergy at Vortex Points)
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The decaying web and our disappearing history
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BBC...
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09/29/12 
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One keystroke kills, history, archiving kill searches.
(The thought that the content on the internet would be "immortal" proves to be quite mortal.)
Tom Chatfield -- Our online history is disappearing at an astonishing rate, creating a black hole for future historians.
Congress to archive every tweet
The Library of Congress will give billions of tweets a home next to the Declaration of Independence... (Trends: Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Creation to Aggregation,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Pulling people to news websites serve two important functions:
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Knight Digital Media Center...
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08/31/12 
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On, and there's "selling that dedicated audience to advertisers."
("...increasing traffic inevitably results in a decline in the average time spent online.
The more successful a site is as measured by pageviews, the less successful it is in engaging people for longer periods of time on a site.")
Websites and Engagement
For news media organizations, the focus on Web 2.0 tools and strategies that gathered momentum in the mid-2000s has mainly been about using the Internet to distri... (Trends: Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Audience to Participants,Nameplate to Disembodied,Mass Media to Atomized,Services become Games)
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The Beginning of ‘White Flight’ from Facebook & Twitter?
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thesocietypages...
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08/13/12 
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()
Recently mentions of a new “real-time social feed” called App.net have been creeping into my Twitter feed. Just as the quietly simmering Diaspora and the running joke that is G+ were geared to seize on collective Facebook malaise, it seems App.net is tryin... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Privacy is a feeling,Class Warfare)
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Gmail contents in Google Search?
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AP...
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08/09/12 
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Google searching in Google?
(Why is this a surprise? Because of some imagined wall between eMail and the rest of the world?)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is creating an information bridge between its influential Internet search engine and its widely used Gmail service in its latest attempt to deliver more personal responses more quickly.
The experimental feature unveiled Wedne... (Trends: Geography to Topic,Services become Games)
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eMail takes 28% of work week
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SJMercuryNews...
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08/08/12 
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And there's almost nothing worth reading....
("I need to be living my own life," she told me, "rather than watching other people live theirs.")
I'm suffering from information overload and I'm not alone. A recent report from McKinsey & Company found that the average knowledge worker spends about 28 percent of the workweek managing email. Assuming a 40-hour week, that comes to about 560 hours a year... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend)
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10 Things Apple Won't Tell You
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SmartMoney...
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08/06/12 
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We love being butt-fucked by Apple
()
1."Our customers are worn out."
All that initial excitement over the first iPhone or iPad has quickly given way to what analysts are dubbing "upgrade fatigue" -- with even Apple's most loyal customers upset about the steady stream of newer models. In fact... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies)
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Congress to Examine Data Sellers
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NYT...
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07/27/12 
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We want to know what they know.
(The information about you is someone else's property.)
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: July 24, 2012
In a move that could lay bare the inner workings of the consumer data industry, eight members of Congress have opened a sweeping investigation into data brokers — companies that collect, collate, analyze and s... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Privacy is a feeling,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth)
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Climate sceptics likely to be conspiracy theorists
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UWesternAustralia...
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07/27/12 
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/jul/27/climate-sceptics-conspiracy-theorists
(New research finds that sceptics also tend to support conspiracy theories such as the moon landing being faked)
Link
Original research pape... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Consumer Data Hidden From Consumers
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NYT...
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07/23/12 
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They will tell you your name, for a fee.
(For a bigger fee, they will tell all they know about you -- to someone else.)
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: July 21, 2012
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BUPKIS. Zilch. Zip. Niente. Zero. Nada.
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I r... (Trends: Shared to Solo,Privacy is a feeling,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Facebook Satisfaction Tanks
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ACSI...
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07/18/12 
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The world's largest has become the world's worst.
(Unpopularity is a reflection of the power relationship. Like Comcast, Facebook behaves without regard for consumer opinion, as it has a lock on the market. User can like it, or lump. Whichever.)
(Huffington Post) According to newly released data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Facebook scored a lowly 61 out of 100 in customer satisfaction among active users, an 8-point drop from 2011. That's the fourth-lowest score among all 230 com... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Audience to Participants,New Value Moment,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Facebook Earns 58% More Per Ad Than Last Year
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TECHCRUNCH...
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07/18/12 
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Mobile Ads Clicked 4X More Than Twitter Ads
(Profits rise as customer satisfaction tanks. Good numbers lessen the consequences of arrogance.)
Facebook yesterday saw a decline in share price on a report of falling user numbers in key markets like the U.S. and Europe, but in a sign of how it is firming up its business, Facebook is also making significantly more money and getting more sticky with i... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Creation to Aggregation,New Value Moment,Desktop to Mobile)
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Friendship For Sale On Facebook
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HUFFINGTON...
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07/18/12 
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$45 to be my friend. $100 to be my friend and get custom Tweets.
(($250 for a blow job, your place or mine.))
Can you put a price on friendship? How about a Facebook friendship -- with a celebrity?
According to the open market of eBay, the correct answer--at least for a Facebook friendship with Adam Sank--is "yes," and less than $45.
An eBay user by the name... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),New Value Moment)
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Advertisers Target Audiences With Personality Scale
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SCIENCEDAILY...
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07/16/12 
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Your behavior while on Facebook tells them all they need to know.
(Will how often your post, and how often you share determine which brand of toothpaste they try to sell you?)
Online advertising has become prevalent in the past five years, and social media sites, such as Facebook, have played a major role. Now, a study at the University of Missouri School of Journalism has developed a method that could help advertisers target on... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),New Value Moment)
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Definition of Crowdsourcing
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CrowdSource...
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07/15/12 
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We're Sitting on a Definition Problem Here.
(Lots of things are called crowdsourcing. Here are some linguistic guidelines)
... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Detecting Pedigree Remotely,New Value Moment)
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Apple Patents Doppelganger Privacy Technique
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Forbes...
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07/14/12 
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If you spit in the soup, nobody eats.
(It's like having four identical clones who are total liars.)
6 comments, 5 called-out + Comment now
Big Brother in a still from Apple's January 1984 advertisement.
In January of 1984, Apple’s most famous television ad promised to smash Big Brother. Twenty-eight years later, a strange new patent seems to show ... (Trends: Privacy is a feeling,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Detecting Pedigree Remotely)
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Time To Apply The First Law Of Robotics To Our Smartphones
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FORBES...
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07/08/12 
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They work for somebody else, and they want to hurt us.
(The ePanopticon has got us all.)
Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff
Isaac Asimov would not be proud.
Seventy years ago, Asimov created the "first law of robotics," the idea that robots of the future would obey a rule rooted deep in their programming: "A robot may not injure a human being ... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Privacy is a feeling,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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With `freedom' in fashion, is libertarianism back?
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AP...
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07/07/12 
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Libertarianism is structural?
(Does that mean that Liberalism is content?)
PAULINE ARRILLAGA July 7, 2012
LAS VEGAS — To begin: This is not a story about Ron Paul.
Not exactly, anyway. And yet to get where we want to go we will start at OPA!, a Greek restaurant on the edge of town where Clark County Republicans and tea par... (Trends: Class Warfare,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Tool tracks edit changes in NYT stories
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NYT...
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07/06/12 
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You can detect the fingerprints of editorial changes in the NYT articles.
(Stories change over time as wrters and editors do their job. This shows how the "news" is arbitrary.)
By ARTHUR S. BRISBANE
Published: June 30, 2012 10 Comments
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THE NEW YORK TIMES is the closest thing we have in this country to a “newspaper of record.” A year ago I suggested that the paper shou... (Trends: Information overload diluting value,--xx Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Detecting Pedigree Remotely)
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The Internet May Have Upended Traditional Institutions, But It’s a Brittle Weapon
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DailyBeast...
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06/30/12 
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The dependency on the Internet makes safety and security a brittle commodity.
(The inverse of dependence is privacy, or the lack thereof. )
Despite the Internet’s power, a government bent on control can still shut it down. But rulers quickly discover that doing so harms their own interests, Jamais Cascio writes.
The Internet is not kind to established institutions. In the last year alone, a... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Privacy is a feeling,Centralized to Distributed)
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Why 'Nigerian scammers' say they're from Nigeria
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ComputerWorld...
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06/20/12 
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Tired of being ripped off by amateurs?
(It's soooo much better when done by a professional.)
Rohan Pearce : Almost every inbox has been plagued by them: Emails offering a chance at a share of millions of dollars (or pounds or euros). Someone works at a Department of Finance or Department of Oil or is terminally ill or for some other reason needs ... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public))
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Instagram: The Porno Moment (Habit Forming Technologies)
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Nirandfar.com...
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06/20/12 
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"Internal triggers” enable us to control you minute-by-minute.
(Marketing tells you to "sit there and twitch". And so you do. And marketing tells you to "eat this." And so you do. And every cell-phone hugging, Facebook-addicted consumer is glad to have "Freedom.")
(original title: THE BILLION DOLLAR MIND TRICK: AN INTRO TO TRIGGERS by Nir Eyal and Jason Hreha) Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives in Palo Alto and, despite her addiction, attends Stanford Un... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Knowledge to Belief,Creation to Aggregation,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Strong Privacy by Subscription
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THEREGISTER...
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06/20/12 
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Your eMail and other secret stuff, totally secure, end-to-end!
(Phil Zimmerman will deliver it himself, sealed in a metal can. Or not. )
Phil Zimmermann and some of the original PGP team have joined up with former US Navy SEALs to build an encrypted communications platform that should be proof against any surveillance.
The company, called Silent Circle, will launch later this year, when ... (Trends: Privacy is a feeling,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Services become Games)
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Do You Believe in Magic?
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LifesLittleMysteries...
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04/23/12 
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Yes, you do.
(Really. Have a look. )
Even the most die-hard skeptics among us believe in magic. Humans can't help it: though we try to be logical, irrational beliefs — many of which we aren't even conscious of — are hardwired in our psyches. But rather than hold us back, the unavoidable habit... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm)
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Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin...
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04/04/12 
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Turns out that lazy, drunk & conservative are related.
(Paper here. Scott Eidelman, Christian S. Crandall, Jeffrey A. Goodman and John C. Blanchar authors' commentte: Please note, l)
Paper here. The authors test the hypothesis that low-effort thought promotes political conservatism. In Study 1, alcohol intoxication was ... (Trends: Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic,Class Warfare,Research)
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A journalism-free news media
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SALON...
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04/03/12 
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It's worse than just crowd-sourcing. It's finding the worst idiots, and idiot-sourcing.
("But for all of these trends, none is more disturbing than recent moves to challenge the the basic assumption that journalism is even necessary anymore. ... the ascendant notion in the media industry is that news organizations and American democracy can s)
BY DAVID SIROTA For those who still believe a democracy needs traditional journalism, this is a harrowing time, to say the least. Local newspapers, for a century the foundation of real reporting, continue laying off the reporters doing the scratch-and-cl... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Knowledge to Belief,Known Source to Crowdsource,Services become Games)
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Ghost Profile or Voyeurism?
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ENDGADGET...
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04/03/12 
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Want to be invisible, but not dead? Ghost Profiles may be for you.
(So, you're saying you can be there, and see all the pictures, but nobody knows you're there, and you don't have to post? )
Google hasn't exactly had the easiest time keeping the privacy hawks off of its back, but if a recently published patent application is any indication of its future intentions, well... let's just say we could see a lot more people hiding behind an online v... (Trends: Shared to Solo,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public))
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Low-Orbit Servers? Or A Pirate Prank?
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DATACENTERKNOWLEDGE...
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04/03/12 
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What better place for a DarkNet than in the cold silence of Outer Space?
(Bwha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.....)
By: Rich Miller
March 19th, 2012
inShare
Did April Fools Day come early for The Pirate Bay? The controversial BitTorrent site posted an odd announcement last night stating that it had decided to build something extraordinary with its server ... (Trends: Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Location becomes Central,The Renaissance of Copyright,Infrastructure to Nonfrastructure)
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The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words
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WSJ...
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04/03/12 
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...words either enter the long-term lexicon or tumble off a cliff into disuse and go '23 skidoo' as children either accept or reject their parents' coinages...
(Wow. Heavy. Far-out. Psychedelic. Groovy. Fab. Real. Dial. Hang up. Hangup. )
PDF
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on ... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Known Source to Crowdsource,Research)
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Email Connects 85 Percent Of The World; Social Media Connects 62 Percent
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IPSOS/REUTERS...
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03/28/12 
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Argentina, Russia and South Africa show highest social media use at 75%, with the US at 60% and Japan at 35%.
(Email still rules the day in Hungary, Sweden, Belgium, Indonesia, Argentina and Poland, at around 94%. The US lags in VOIP (10%), compared to 36% in Russia and 25% in India. )
(Reuters) - Most of the world is interconnected thanks to email and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll released on Tuesday.
Eighty five percent of people around the globe who are connected online send and recei... (Trends: Audience to Participants)
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Publishers make bid to close filesharing sites
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GUARDIAN...
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03/27/12 
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Publishers strike against illicit eBook distributors
(The War Against the War on Copyright (TM) is not over, by any means. Will the bad capitalists make it too painful to steal that which is unprotected? Or will technology make the whole question moot?)
A coalition of US publishing groups has taken legal action in Ireland in a bid to close websites they accuse of copyright infringement.
The crackdown came as the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency announced it would treat illicit filesharing websites a... (Trends: Detecting Pedigree Remotely,The Renaissance of Copyright,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Academic publishers run a guarded knowledge economy
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GUARDIAN...
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03/27/12 
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The business model for scholarly papers forms a barrier to the public, but can such walls remain standing?
(Public money is converted to private capital in a number of ways. Increasing someone's cultural capital, through education, is one of those ways. So is funding research. )
This week George Monbiot won the internet with a Guardian piece on academic publishers. For those who didn't know: academics, funded mostly by the public purse, pay for the production and dissemination of papers; but for historical reasons, these are publi... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,The Renaissance of Copyright)
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The hierarchy of content creation and consumption
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SCALEBOOK...
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03/26/12 
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The process of content creation and content consumption is closely related to the hierarchical structure of content types, he said.
(Primary Content is original content produced by original content producers. The rest of these copies are copies.)
Social web content management is all about creation and consumption of content. What sets it apart from traditional content management is the fact that consumers and content creators are interchangeable. Each content consumer is a potential content creator... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Audience to Participants)
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Researcher: Optimal copyright term is 14 years
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ARSTECHNICA...
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03/22/12 
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Copyright tries to balance creative pollination and property rights. It's never a good balance.
(But you can calculate where both creative pollination and exploitation of property rights both have the highest numbers.)
See the research paper by RUFUS POLLOCK of CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY here. easy enough to find out how long copyrights last, but much harder to decide how long they should lastbut that didn't st... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,The Renaissance of Copyright)
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Why Social Business Keeps Failing to Deliver
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CONTENTMANAGEMENTCONNECTION...
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03/22/12 
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Social Media may actually be killing our economy.
(What if the La Brea Tar Pit principle applies to social media space? Every individual part seems to be working, but you have to say 'hello' 24,000 times a day.)
By Luis Suarez. If you have been reading the last few articles I have posted over here in this blog, over the course of the last few months, you may have noticed how, as of late, I have become a whole lot more critical (Hopefully, in a constructive manner)... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Information overload vs ability to comprehend,Centralized to Distributed,Class Warfare)
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Smart Phones Control Your Movements
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MCCORMICKNORTHWESTERN...
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03/20/12 
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Unconscious Granfalloons trace predetermined paths across the globe, at the bidding of the puppet masters.
(Big Fans of Free Will may find this news a bit chilling.)
Eighty-eight percent of Americans now own a cell phone, forming a massive network that offers scientists a wealth of information and an infinite number of new applications. With the help of these phone users and their devices cameras, audio recorders, a... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Audience to Participants,Services become Games)
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BJ Fogg's Behavior Model
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BEHAVIORMODEL...
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03/20/12 
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Motivation, Ability, and Trigger. Sounds like Information, Energy, and Workflow. Thanks to both BJ Fogg AND Roe Fleenor.
(See video
See fogg1
See fogg1
See
Crowdfunding Will Turn the Start-Up World Upside Down
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ALLTHINGSD...
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03/18/12 
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We can now invest directly in startups without going through the Stock Market!
(Nigerian Ministers of Finance everywhere will be thrilled!)
Remember that special moment when we all realized that the Web was going to remake yard sales and auctions, but we didnt know yet who was going to win? (And then eBay left the rest in the dust?)
Such a moment has come again, and with a choice prize: In... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Services become Games,Infrastructure to Nonfrastructure,Centralized to Distributed)
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Gannett to Crowdsource News
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WIRED...
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03/18/12 
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News desks become coordination centers for media types, instead of news categories,.
(Many former journalists in the crowd now.)
Jeff Howe 11.03.06
The publisher of "America's newspaper" is turning to America to get its news.
According to internal documents provided to Wired News and interviews with key executives, Gannett, the publisher of USA Today as well as 90 other American... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Known Source to Crowdsource,Hyper-Local / Small Town Survivors,Nameplate to Disembodied)
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The Higher Education Monopoly is Crumbling As We Speak
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THENEWREPUBLIC...
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03/16/12 
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College Degrees don't work for many Web-era jobs. Are there alternatives.
(Captain Kirk says that there are always alternatives. In this case, finding ways to evaluate the credibility of self-directed education in programming and content-creation skills is the challenge.)
In the last years of the nineteenth century, Charles Dow created an index of 12 leading industrial companies. Almost none of them exist today. While General Electric remains an industrial giant, the U.S. Leather Company, American Cotton Oil, and others hav... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Knowledge to Belief,Detecting Pedigree Remotely)
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Comparing Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Float And More
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PAIDCONTENT...
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03/15/12 
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Here's the rundown on the Army of the War on Copyright.
(A summary of the major content aggregation sites on the Web. )
See the chart at http://www.pagetwister.com/docs/aggregators%20comparison%202011.pdf... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation,The Renaissance of Copyright)
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Words Spelled On Right Side of Keyboards Lead to More Positive Emotions
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SCIENCEDAILY...
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03/11/12 
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Some of those words are: you lip, lop, hip, hit, mink, ki, no, pun, and the ever-popular LOL.
(Now my hand feels guilty.)
ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2012) Words spelled with more letters on the right of the keyboard are associated with more positive emotions than words spelled with more letters on the left, according to new research by cognitive scientists Kyle Jasmin of Univers... (Trends: Research)
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Facebook, Twitter are killing search
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ZDNET...
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03/08/12 
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Searching moving inside social media, leaving Google, Bing behind
(Or, search is expanding into social media, and Google and Bing will be in there, too.)
Stafford Masie, the former head of Google South Africa, believes Googles traditional business in search is shrinking and that sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are to blame. Last week, Masie said: Google is dying. That could have been my headline... (Trends: Services become Games,Distribution Reforms Around the Net,The Renaissance of Copyright,Centralized to Distributed,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Industry Calls For Search Engine Censorship
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TORRENTFREAK...
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03/08/12 
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In they can't see it, they can't steal it.
(Or we could cut off their hands, and poke out their eyes.)
At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,The Renaissance of Copyright)
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People Too Stupid To Know They're Dumb
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LIVESCIENCE...
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03/06/12 
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Stupid people running democracies by popular vote ensure that neither the very best, or the very worst, are elected.
(And in the end, mediocrity is its own reward. See also "People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish".)
A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don't have a good enough sense of humor to t... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Audience to Participants,Class Warfare)
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The eBook Backlash
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NYT...
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03/06/12 
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When is reading an eBook not like reading a book?
(When is soaking in a tub not like kayaking through the rapids? "She is constantly fending off the urge to check other media, making it tough to finish books.")
Can you concentrate on Flaubert when Facebook is only a swipe away, or give your true devotion to Mr. Darcy while Twitter beckons?
Related
Times Topic: E-Book Readers
Add to Portfolio
Go to your Portfolio »
Readers Comments
Share your thoughts.
... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend,Audience to Participants,Print to Electronic to ?,Mass Media to Atomized)
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The disappearing virtual library
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Al Jazeera...
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03/04/12 
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The Empire Strikes Back! Copyright war is not over.
(Capitalism strikes back, blocking a download site full of scholarly books: textbooks, secondary treatises, obscure monographs, biographical analyses, technical manuals, collections of cutting-edge research in engineering, mathematics, biology, social scien)
Los Angeles, CA - Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the reports... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation,The Renaissance of Copyright)
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The Credit Card Is The New App Platform
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FORBES...
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03/01/12 
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Oh, now my head hurts.
("Closing the redemption loop" is when your credit card becomes the snitch in your wallet.)
This is a guest post written by Reid Hoffman, Ali Rosenthal and James Slavet from Greylock Partners.
Credit and debit cards are ubiquitous, but theyre mostly pretty dumb. Thats about to change. Over 170 million people in the U.S. have credit cards, an... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Services become Games,Location becomes Central)
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Upper classes that are more likely to behave dishonorably
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SCIENCE...
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02/29/12 
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Did they get rich by being honest?
(The feeling of privilege gives one the feeling of permission. )
For fans of the British upstairs-downstairs TV series Downton Abbey, skullduggery may seem evenly distributed among the social ranks. But in real life, it's the upper classes that are more likely to behave dishonorably, according to new research.
Observ... (Trends: Class Warfare,Research)
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On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identification
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Narayana, et al, 2012...
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02/27/12 
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They can tell who you are, since you use the same words so much, and your style too, especially if it's bad.
(Or did I make that part up? That's another way of telling!)
On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identication
Draft. A version of this paper will appear at IEEE S&P 2012.
Arvind Narayanan
relax@stanford.edu
Hristo Paskov
hpaskov@stanford.edu
Neil Zhenqiang Gong
neilz.gong@berkeley.edu
John Bethencou... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Detecting Pedigree Remotely)
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Make me famous! Steal my stuff!
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CONTENTSUTRA...
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02/21/12 
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"...we have leveraged piracy to help us succeed."
(There is no such thing as bad publicity (except for really bad publicity). )
Alok Kejriwal is a digital entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is the CEO and co-founder of games2win.com.
Every time I listen to my iPod, I remember Napster.
The record industry treated Napster like the Taliban of Piracythey sued, fought and closed it... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Services become Games,Creation to Aggregation,The Renaissance of Copyright)
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Apps are the New Magazine (Newspaper, Channel...)
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PAIDCONTENT...
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02/21/12 
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The App becomes the trans-platform vehicle that connects the publisher with the consumer.
(The phone, the service, the computer company, the software vendor, the advertiser all give way in significance to the App.)
In a reversal of todays content publishing model, print magazines pretty soon could start looking a lot like their app equivalents.
The next redesign of our titles will see them redesigned with our tablet versions in mind, magazine publisher Futures... (Trends: Services become Games, Distribution Reforms Around the Net, Desktop to Mobile, Infrastructure to Nonfrastructure)
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The Gatekeeper is Dead! Long Live the Gatekeeper!
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JohnPaton...
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02/21/12 
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Forget about being the Gatekeeper. Get out of the chair and swim in the news stream.
(It's the feed, boss, it's the feed. Always, the feed.)
(John Paton, Digital First, speaking to the Canadian Journalists' Association FEb. 12, 2012).
(Speaking notes for an address to the Canadian Journalism Foundation
Toronto, Canada, 2/16/2012)
Good evening.
Im old media.
This is my 36th year as... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, Audience to Participants, Services become Games)
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Homeland Security Monitoring Social Media
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Huffington...
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02/17/12 
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Big brother -- and his other brothers -- are watching what you tweet!
()
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers looking into homeland security officials' practice of monitoring social media sites seized on a report Thursday by a civil liberties group that said taxpayers have shelled out more than $11 million to a private contractor to analyze... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public))
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The materialist fallacy
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NYT...
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02/16/12 
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Government-centric vs. culturally deterministic theories, again. Still. Forever. It's what makes democracy work.
(Social disorganization has a momentum of its own, handed down through generations like alcoholism, or child abuse.)
David Brooks, The New York Times: The half-century between 1912 and 1962 was a period of great wars and economic tumult but also of impressive social cohesion. Marriage rates were high. Community groups connected people across class.
In the half-centur... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief, Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic)
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5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics
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MASHABLE...
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02/12/12 
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Here are tools for analyzing aspects of Twitter and Facebook.
()
Ann Smarty is a search marketer and full-time web entrepreneur. Ann blogs on search and social media tools. Her newest project, My Blog Guest, is a free platform for guest bloggers and blog owners. Follow Ann on Twitter @seosmarty.
Social media... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Data to Meta News, Detecting Pedigree Remotely)
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The Left Rolls With the Good; the Right Confronts the Bad -- Physiology and Cognition in Politics
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HUFFINGTON...
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02/12/12 
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They're that way for the same reason we're different. PDF FILE
(And the reason is: we're different.)
Kenneth R. MillerProfessor of biology, Brown University
America's got a Darwin problem -- and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they ... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend, Knowledge to Belief)
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Popularity of an Article Can Be Predicted Before It's Tweeted
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HP...
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02/10/12 
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Four factors count: source, category, style, and name-dropping.
(Like, the Times quoted CNN reporting that that Madonna said that Lady GaGa was way, way into news.)
HP Labs says its possible to know if your tweet will be a dud before you type the 140 characters.
(get the pdf at here)
(see the video at http://mashable.com/2012/02/09/news-popular... (Trends: Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Known Source to Crowdsource)
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Facebook's 'man in the middle' attack
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ITWorld...
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02/09/12 
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Like a spy spying on two other spies who are spying each other.
("It's not the sharing that's bad, it's the technological design of giving it all to someone in the middle.")
Dan Tynan -- A few days ago I wrote a post asking whether Facebook was actively helping law enforcement track down bad guys using facial recognition technology. (The answer: Not really.)
I had to publish it before I got a response from Eben Moglen, the ... (Trends: Data to Meta News, Audience to Participants, Creation to Aggregation)
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Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes
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PSYCHOLOGICALSCIENCE...
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02/04/12 
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Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact
(Duh. I thought so. )
Gordon Hodson and Michael A. Busseri, Department of Psychology, Brock University, Ontario.
Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We pro... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Research)
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70% Of Pandora Usage On Mobile
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INFORMATIONWEEK...
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02/02/12 
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Pandora's penetration on iOS and Android has created a local mass-media opportunity.
(Pandora mimics Clear Channel by delivering 'local' radio to mobile devices. Except for the 'local' part, which is also missing on Clear Channel. )
By Fritz Nelson
Pandora has finally hit scale, with a listening audience that has become attractive to advertisers, even in local markets where broadcast radio typically makes its money, said Pandora Founder Tim Westergren at Web 2.0 Summit in San Franc... (Trends: Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Centralized to Distributed)
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Power Structure of the Republican Constituency
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AMERICANTHINKER...
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01/31/12 
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The overriding interest of this cabal has been and continues to be: the accumulation of power through the control of the income, borrowing and spending by the Federal Government.
(Revealing analysis of the economic structure of the Republican "establishment", and how those interests relate to each other.)
The Republican Party has a tenuous hold on the conservative movement in America. At present the only home for the 40 per cent of the electorate that identify themselves as conservative is the Republican Party, but it appears that those who are nominally ... (Trends: Research)
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Multitasking hinders youth social skills
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CNN...
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01/27/12 
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Social media hampers child development, especially the development of vital social skills.
(And we thought it just made them stupid, dull, self-possessed and shallow.)
FaceTime, the Apple video-chat application, is not a replacement for real human interaction, especially for children, according to a new study.
Tween girls who spend much of their waking hours switching frantically between YouTube, Facebook, television an... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend, Shared to Solo)
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The World's Worst Privacy Policy
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FORBES...
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01/26/12 
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We know you don't care about privacy.
(AND you like being ripped off! You're welcome here! Skipity just wants to be up front with you.)
Andy Greenberg -- With the Internet up in arms about the most recent tweaks to Googles fine print on privacy, its helpful to remember: It could be much, much worse.
Another search engine called Skipity, created last June and registered to one Andrew C... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Known Source to Crowdsource)
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WAVII marries news/serach to Facebook
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TECHCRUNCH...
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01/23/12 
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Take the Facebook feed, your profile data, and the power of Google, and turn all that into a new "feed" just for you!
(Imagine a world all about you. Is this really a good thing?)
The problem of how to find relevant content on the web has yet to be solved on a mass scale. Youve got cyborg news aggregators like Techmeme and Google news and social aggregators like Reddit and Digg competing with Twitter and the Facebook Newsfeed, all ... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Data to Meta News, Creation to Aggregation)
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How agile methodologies can help publishers
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RADAR.OREILLY...
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01/12/12 
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Daily journalism has always had agile attributes.
(Great start of an idea, but she finishes with lame, vague suggestions. )
by Jenn Webb
Agile methodologies originated in the software space, but Bookigee CEO Kristen McLean (@ABCKristen) believes many of the same techniques can also be applied to content development and publishing workflows. She explains why in the following... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Geo-Location App Urgnt.ly Connects You With Nearby Service Providers
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STREETFIGHT...
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01/11/12 
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They know where you are. And they want your money.
(Bad enough for advertising to intrude on everywaking moment. Now it will intrude on every walking moment, as well.)
When a pipe in your bathrooms bursts in the middle of the night, or youre stuck with a flat tire on the side of the highway, you need someone nearby to come as soon as possible. This is the situation that new geo-location app Urgnt.ly was built to address... (Trends: Location becomes Central, Services become Games)
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Survey Shows Piracy Common and Widely Accepted
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activepolitic.com...
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01/07/12 
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It's yours, they took it. 46% of adults and 75% of young people have bought, copied, or downloaded some copyright infringing material
(And they liked it. Does law follow behavior, or behavior follow law? Copyright has evolved greatly since its invention during the reign of Queen Anne. )
Here's a little more info about the survey itself:
The Copy Culture survey was sponsored by The American Assembly, with support from a research award from Google. The content of the survey and its findings are solely the responsibility of the researcher... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation, The Renaissance of Copyright)
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In the coming year, Social media journalists will #Occupythenews
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NIEMAN...
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01/07/12 
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Burt Herman writes: "Journalism will be more collaborative, embracing the fundamental social nature of the Internet."
(The transformation of citizens into journalists is an effect of the spread of technology into the hands of intelligent people. Also unintelligent people, and therein 'lies the rub.')
Social medias essential role in serious journalism can no longer be ignored. Next year, social media journalism will finally grow up.
Journalism will be more collaborative, embracing the fundamental social nature of the Internet. The story will be shap... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Known Source to Crowdsource, Creation to Aggregation)
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AP and 28 News Groups Going After Aggregators
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TechZwn...
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01/07/12 
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They're coming to get you.
(The counter-attack on copyright was enabled by technology, as was the original attack.l)
The Associated Press and 28 other news organizations have launched a project to collect fees from aggregators who are reposting their content around the Web.
The project, knowns as NewsRight, will be a separate business that will license original news f... (Trends: Distribution Reforms Around the Net, Creation to Aggregation, The Renaissance of Copyright)
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Getting 'digital first' right in the 'newsroom'
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YELVINGTON...
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12/30/11 
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Steve Yelvington knows that the power is shifting from the journalist to the reader.
(1. Time. It's not just about the volatility of news. Brands are volatile. Ideas are volatile. Change has accelerated. In such an environment, "the way we do things here" is probably wrong. Challenge everything. If "news" is "old" moments later, are there t)
Submitted by yelvington on October 10, 2011 - 8:58am
"Digital First!" is a great battle cry, and thank you, John Paton, for giving it to us all. It is pure leadership, a flag planted forward declaring that newspapers now see print as the past and digital ... (Trends: Services become Games, Centralized to Distributed)
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Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?
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GUARDIAN...
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12/12/11 
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Business Models for Long-Form Journalism (and hey, copyright law).
(A thinly-disguised promo for an iPhone App that coordinates products built from stolen content.)
Frederic Filloux, The Guardian. My reading selection process for long articles (say above 2500 words) goes like this. It starts with installing the Read Later bookmarklet, developed by Instapaper, on all my internet browsers. When I stumble on something I ... (Trends: Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth, Creation to Aggregation, The Renaissance of Copyright)
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Aggregation and Attribution: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
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STREETFIGHT...
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11/22/11 
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A quick primer on Copyright and Fair Use for the benefit of aggregators.
(Not too much, not too commercial, is it real, what's it worth?)
BY BRIAN DENGLER
Hyperlocal news publishers that rely on aggregation or content from other sites need to think carefully about how they present it. Threats by large media companies over aggregation of their content and this months highly profiled sp... (Trends: Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth, The Renaissance of Copyright)
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AllVoices! Start reporting, reach millions, and make money!
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ALLVOICES...
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11/15/11 
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You are a journalist if you say you are, and here's a place where they will treat you like you say you're a journalist.
(And they laughed when you sat down at the keyboard!)
... (Trends: Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth, Creation to Aggregation, Hyper-Local / Small Town Survivors)
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NINE CONNECTIONS builds news from the Twitter stream
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-...
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11/15/11 
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OK, so, the credibility question is really coming into focus now!
(See also My6Sense, Scoop.it, Pearltrees, FlipBoard, Zite, AOL Editions, Pulse, )
... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth, Creation to Aggregation)
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The Privatization of Copyright
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TORRENTFREAK...
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11/14/11 
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Jason Mazzone, of the Brooklyn Law School, shows how contracts expand copyright law.
(Again, this turns on a property issue. By contractually restricting the rights of a purchaser of content (like a DVD), does that same contractual limitation apply to the person who steals the DVD, or downloads the content?)
... (Trends: The Renaissance of Copyright, Mass Media to Atomized)
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YouProve: Authenticity and Fidelity in Mobile Sensing
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DUKEUNIVERSITY...
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11/10/11 
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The Pedigree of Sound and Images is detectable by identifying areas that have been changed.
(Just like you can tell where wall paint has been touched-up. Well, better, actually.)
As more services have come to rely on sensor data such as audio and photos collected by mobile phone users, verifying the authenticity of this data has become critical for service correctness. At the same time, clients require the flexibility to tradeoff t... (Trends: Detecting Pedigree Remotely, Creation to Aggregation)
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Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay
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MASHABLE...
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11/08/11 
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It's not enough that they're stealing the content.
(They're keeping it in cages, and training it as a circus act.)
Steve Rosenbaum. Steve Rosenbaum is the CEO of Magnify.net, a video Curation and Publishing platform. Rosenbaum is a blogger, video maker and documentarian. You can follow him on Twitter @magnify and read more about Curation at CurationNation.org.
For w... (Trends: Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth, Creation to Aggregation)
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How fair use was born
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DUKEUNIVERSITY...
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11/07/11 
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Fair use ... developed in order to make judges more comfortable with a vast expansion of copyrights scope, precisely to provide an economic windfall to rights holders.
(As Bracha points out, there was a shift in progress from looking primarily at the new works usefulness to the reading audience to primarily protecting the market value of the original in all its potential forms. These two cases are on the trailing edge)
Review, by Kevin Smith, PhD, of "The Ideology of Authorship Revealed" by Oren Bracha, University of Texas Working Paper Series #82.
The history of copyright law is a fascinating study. Really, it is. One truism about that history is that copyright p... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation, The Renaissance of Copyright)
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Twitter Stream Analyzed for Flu Shot Attitides
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PLOS...
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10/15/11 
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The Meta-News of Twitter again reveals real-time sentiment tracking
(The news is that "The flow of information produces information about the flow of information".)
Assessing Vaccination Sentiments with Online Social Media: Implications for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Control
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Fuego: New mobile tool to follow the future of journalism, anywhere
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KNIGHTMEDIA...
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10/15/11 
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Automatically follow the Twitter threads about the future of Journalism.
(Aggregated content about the aggregation of meta-news content about news content, and the discussions thereby generated --- on Twitter.)
Fuego: New mobile tool to follow the future of journalism, anywhere
Lots of smart people are always discussing the future of journalism and media on Twitterbut knowing which of those conversations are most important at any given time can mean spendin... (Trends: News to Meta News, Mass Media to Atomized)
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SPJ Priorities: Into Flow, Press Independence, Ethics
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SPJ / SDX...
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10/04/11 
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Ethics is third, contained within the concept of press independence.
(Then, after all that, we can think about what's right.)
The Society of Professional Journalists is dedicated to the perpetuation of a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty.
To ensure that the concept of self-government outlined by the U.S. Constitution remains a reality into future cent... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, The Renaissance of Copyright, Research)
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Should Google Tweak the News We Consume?
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BITS.BLOGS.NYT...
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10/03/11 
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Even tweakier than now? Search results are a total result of detailed configuration files.
(The concept of search results as content brings up the issues of content amalgamation and copyright. Google reader proffers that which is available. Google search proffers that which is visible, categorized and ranked.)
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Should Google play an editorial role in presenting readers with news?
That question was a matter of debate at Zeitgeist, a Google conference this week in Paradise Valley, Ariz., where Larry Page, Googles co-founder and chief exec... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation, Nameplate to Disembodied, Research)
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Judge Kane Rules Righthaven Must Pay, Had No Standing
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LAWWEEKCOLORADO...
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10/02/11 
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The right to sue is linked to owning the copyright. Duh.
(The Copyright Wars are not only continuing, but will probably intensify, as the paradigm of content aggregation on the Web challenges the traditional ethics of journalism. Expect to see sharpening debate around the interpretation of "fair use".)
By Matt Masich, LAW WEEK COLORADO
DENVER Copyright enforcer Righthaven lacked legal standing to sue a Florida blogger for copyright infringement, and it must compensate him for attorney fees he incurred defending the lawsuit, a federal judge ruled Tuesd... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation, The Renaissance of Copyright, Research)
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All the News You Want, When You Want I
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NYT...
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10/02/11 
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Content aggregation as an App on the iPhone
(With permission, of course, represents the legal method, also the high-cost method, published for paying customers.)
Each morning, bleary-eyed, I retrieve the newspaper, glance at the headlines and toss it on the coffee table to read later.
Browse all the mobile app coverage that has appeared in The New York Times by category, and see what Times writers have on their ... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation, Nameplate to Disembodied, The Renaissance of Copyright, Research)
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No paper might mean no news
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PEW...
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10/02/11 
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Technology will resolve all the copyright issues. But Fair Use becomes the new battle line
(Content amalgamation is a self-solving prolbem, eventually.)
A Pew Research Center survey reveals a disconnect by news consumers about where their information originates.
By James Rainey
September 28, 2011
Want to get under a newspaper person's skin? Tell them you don't need their work because you get most of... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation, Nameplate to Disembodied, The Renaissance of Copyright, Research)
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GPS Phones Show Virtual Stores On Top Of Yours
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BLOGS.WSJ...
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09/22/11 
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Turns out Cyberspace has an street address, and it's yours!
(GPS-phones may show cyber-businesses squatting on your physical store, a very obscure form of Real Estate "porno". )
Our Tech Leader 25 group identified augmented reality as a key future trend but actually it isnt a future trend at all, it is already here.
Raimo Van der Klein is the CEO of Layar, based here in Amsterdam. Layar was one of the very first to deliver A... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, Desktop to Mobile, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Montana BBQ Restaurant Sues Publisher For Making It Butt Of Jay Leno Joke
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HUFFINGTONPOST...
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09/10/11 
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An slip-up in a restaurant listing was amplified by content aggregators, and ruined a business.
(Matt Vlz wrote this for the Huffington Post, not realizing he was keying on the Pedigree of Information issue.)
HELENA, Mont. -- A Montana restaurant listed in the phone book under "Animal Carcass Removal" became the butt of a Jay Leno joke earlier this year, but it's no laughing matter to the owner now suing the publishing company over the business he's lost.
Hu... (Trends: Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth)
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WIKIPEDIA...
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09/06/11 
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Journalism is about selling your world-view.
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--... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion)
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China state paper urges Internet rethink to gag foes
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REUTERS...
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09/04/11 
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China sees both the political and economic dangers of the Net
(The political and economic problems are similar: business desires to find a way to re-protect profits from copyrights and other intellectual property, and the Chinese government seeks to protect political power and the control of ideological thought and ot)
By Chris Buckley
BEIJING | Fri Sep 2, 2011 6:23pm EDT
(Reuters) - China's Communist Party control is at risk unless the government takes firmer steps to stop Internet opinion being shaped by increasingly organized political foes, a team of party writers ... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, The Renaissance of Copyright)
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The Speed of Information
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THETECHNIUM...
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08/30/11 
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Kevin Kelly thinks information is the fastest growing thing on this planet.
(100 Gigapixel cameras take bigger pictures, and bigger is "better", right? )
The fastest increasing quantity on this planet is the amount of information we are generating. It is (and has been) expanding faster than anything else we create or can measure over the scale of decades. That means that at the very edge of change, where ch... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend, Data to Meta News, Research)
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Universities Create Copyright Problem For Google Books
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PAIDCONTENT...
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08/30/11 
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Fair Use interpretations define the battle over academic access to orphaned works.
(The Fair Use debate stretches across all major media.)
As authors and publishers wait to learn the final fate of the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books settlement, a group of universities has quietly launched a major initiative that could reshape the future of copyright law.
See more of our latest Legal coverage
or... (Trends: The Renaissance of Copyright,Centralized to Distributed,Research)
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Canadian universities in row over licensing fees
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TIMESHIGHERED...
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08/30/11 
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US Awaits Fair Use Ruling
(The trend of copyrights on the net has re-energized rights holders to seek greater technological control -- and revenue -- from copyrights. The battle for music may also be rejoined.)
Jon Marcus reports
Disputes in Canada and the US are fuelling close scrutiny of the use of copyrighted material, with the outcomes threatening to increase the burden on academics.
Universities in Canada have broken away from the main copyright cleari... (Trends: The Renaissance of Copyright, Centralized to Distributed)
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Diffbot Sees The Web Like People Do
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TECHCRUNCH...
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08/26/11 
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Only 31 types of Web pages, and DiffBot reads them all.
(The ultimate tool for content aggregators, this puppy can slurp your web page, extract the content, and spit out the bones. At least, that's what I imagine!)
SARAH PEREZ
Diffbot is a geeky and incredibly interesting technology that uses bots, algorithms, computer vision and artificial intelligence to process the content on the Web the way a human being can. The entire Internet can be broken down into 30 dif... (Trends: Infrastructure to Nonfrastructure,Nameplate to Disembodied)
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What is journalism worth?
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ONLINEJOURNALISMREVIEW...
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08/19/11 
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"Incremental daily journalism traditionally has had no financial value to a publisher beyond its value as a vehicle for advertising." -- Robert Niles
(What is news worth? Robert Niles breaks it down per story based on actual newspaper economics (if such a phrase can still be used.))
What is journalism worth? That's the question journalism managers and entrepreneurs have been trying to figure out ever since it became clear, years ago, that the Internet was disrupting local publishing monopolies.
And so we've endured years of conferenc... (Trends: Print to Electronic to ?,Mass Media to Atomized,Property Rights vs. Human Rights,Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic,Research)
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Inkling nabs $17M to bring textbooks to the iPad
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GIGAOM...
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08/16/11 
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Linking content access to a single manufacturer's device is anti-competitive.
()
Inkling, the digital textbook software startup, has closed on $17 million in new funding.
The San Francisco-based company will use the money to hire more employees and meet the growing appetite its seeing from traditional textbook publishers, CEO Matt ... (Trends: Print to Electronic to ?)
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The Truth, on average.
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NYT...
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08/09/11 
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Is it real, or is it anonymous?
(How can the crowd-sourced product of a male-dominated Western-dominated society turn out to be Western, and male-dominated?)
HAIFA, Israel
MAKING fun of Wikipedia is so 2007, a French journalist said recently to Sue Gardner, the executive director of the foundation that runs the Wikipedia project.
And so Ms. Gardner, in turn, told an auditorium full of Wikipedia contribu... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, Audience to Participants)
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Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks
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pdf...
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08/09/11 
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What people do, and in which order. Online.
(see pdf on hp 20110809)
Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks
Fabrício Benevenuto
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Tiago Rodrigues
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Virgílio Almeida
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Computer Science Department, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (... (Trends: Synergy at Vortex Points)
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
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SCIENCEBLOG...
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08/03/11 
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As ye think, so shall ye be.
(The influences of beliefs are routinely underestimated.)
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Ne... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Knowledge to Belief)
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The science of fanboyism
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TECHREPORT...
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07/16/11 
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I BELIEVE that I like Cheetos.
(Now that I have decided that I like Cheetos, you HAVE to like them too! Really!)
We've all encountered them. They lurk in Internet message boards, comment threads, and chatrooms. Addressing anyone and everyone, they type up lengthy tirades with Cheeto-stained fingers, extolling the virtues of their product or brand of choice. They angr... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Information overload vs ability to comprehend)
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Study: Fair use drives large part of US economy
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COMPUTERWORLD...
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07/16/11 
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You said it. And I stole it, but not all of it, just enough to make a critical comment and a derivitive work and an annuity revenue stream.
()
Industries that rely on fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright law have weathered the recent slow economy better than other businesses, according to a new study released by a tech trade group.
The fair use industries, including consumer device makers, so... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation, Nameplate to Disembodied, The Renaissance of Copyright, Research)
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Belief-Dependent Realism
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SCIENTFICAMERICAN...
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07/09/11 
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Beliefs come first; explanations for beliefs follow. I believe that.
(I believe I'll have a drink, and then I think I'll believe that Obama was born in the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.)
By Michael Shermer
Was President Barack Obama born in Hawaii? I find the question so absurd, not to mention possibly racist in its motivation, that when I am confronted with birthers who believe otherwise, I find it difficult to even focus on their ar... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, Knowledge to Belief)
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Authorship markup and web search
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GOOGLE...
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06/12/11 
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You stole my stuff, and I CAUGHT YOU! This may be a new metaphor for the organization of business models.
(HTML Authorship tags can shift the balance of power between content creators and producers. For a while. See Ted Nelson for details.)
... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, The Renaissance of Copyright, Mass Media to Atomized, Research)
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News Articles: Now A Luxury Or Byproduct
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BuzzMachine...
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06/04/11 
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The article -- disembodied from its nameplate -- further disintigrates into tweets and twitches.
(At the dawn of telephones, reporters would phone "takes" of the story to a rewrite desk at the daily paper, and wire-service stories would be transmitted in paragraphs written as details emerged.)
Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine
Jeff Jarvis is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program and the new business models for news project at the City University of New Yorks Graduate School of Journalism
A few episodes in news mak... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, Mass Media to Atomized, Research)
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You get 150 Friends, then your brain stops
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slashdot...
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06/02/11 
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The Twitterverse is "unable to overcome the biological and physical constraints that limit stable social relations" because the Dunbar limit is real.
("Back in early '90s, British anthropologist Robin Dunbar began studying human social groups, measuring the number of people an individual can maintain regular contact with, and came up with 150 a number that appears to be constant throughout human histor)
Slashdot
The number of people we can truly be friends with is constant, regardless of social networking ser... (Trends: Synergy at Vortex Points, Information overload vs ability to comprehend)
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YouTube 2.0 helping new stars redefine TV
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USAToday...
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06/02/11 
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Redefining TV is the effect of the process, not the goal.
(The real clue is the extension into media space of the passion of the enthusiast retailer.)
... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Local to Granfalloon, Synergy at Vortex Points)
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Vadim Lavrusik: How journalists can make use of Facebook Pages6 Copyright and licensing information / Some rights reserved
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NIEMANJLAB...
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05/12/11 
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... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Nameplate to Disembodied)
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General Assembly Aims to Gather New York Techies
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NYT...
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05/07/11 
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Information, Energy, and Workflow create an explosive combination at the cutting edge of technology and culture.
(The key here may be the cutting edge of technology and culture.)
... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Synergy at Vortex Points)
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Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever
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RT.com...
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05/07/11 
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Privacy is an illusion if you live online.
(The presence of a lack of privacy identifies the need for the opposite of this condition. Both facts argue for the pedigree of information.)
i4u points out an interview with Julian Assange in which the controversial WikiLeaks spokesman calls Facebook "the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented." He continues,
"Here we have the worlds most comprehensive database about people, t... (Trends: Solo to Swarm, Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Audience to Participants, Research)
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Bloggers Predicts Apple Profits Better Than Pros
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HUFFINGTONPOST...
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04/25/11 
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Add this to the 'meta-news' wave, where multiple individuals make better predictions than a few pros
()
When it comes to Apple's stock, the advice of financial bloggers may be more reliable than tips from professional analysts.
On Wednesday, Apple reported a second-quarter net profit of $5.99 billion, or $6.40 per share.
CNN Money, however, tracked rev... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Known Source to Crowdsource)
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Bloggers Predicts Apple Profits Better Than Pros
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HUFFINGTONPOST...
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04/25/11 
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Add this to the 'meta-news' wave, where multiple individuals make better predictions than a few pros
()
When it comes to Apple's stock, the advice of financial bloggers may be more reliable than tips from professional analysts.
On Wednesday, Apple reported a second-quarter net profit of $5.99 billion, or $6.40 per share.
CNN Money, however, tracked rev... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Known Source to Crowdsource)
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Digg Ditched as Consumer Habits Drift
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NEWSWEEK...
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10/24/10 
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Fleeting is the warm glow of popularity.
(Part of Digg's demise was self-inflicted, but part was also how easy it was to manipulate Digg's recommendations through covert group action.)
A cautionary tale for Web 2.0 companies.
Four years ago Kevin Rose, the boyish, 20-something founder of Digg, was on the cover of BusinessWeek under a headline that screamed HOW THIS KID MADE $60 MILLION IN 18 MONTHS. Digg wasn’t rocket science. It was ... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,Nameplate to Disembodied,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Traffic Bait Does Not Bring Ad Clicks
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NYT...
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10/24/10 
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Profitable stories are profitable because they engage readers, or deliver a commercial advantage.
(Bottom line: Engaged readers are good for advertisers. This should not be a surprise.)
By JEREMY W. PETERS
Published: October 17, 2010
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Sure, articles about Lindsay Lohans repeat trips to rehabilitation and Brett Favres purported sexual peccadilloes generate loads of re... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Audience to Participants)
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Facebook and Twitter to Transform the TV Landscape
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APPMARKETbeta...
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10/14/10 
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Will Dick Tracey get PPV on his WristTV?
()
Facebook and Twitter are fighting for key roles in the worldwide television market, particularly TV advertising and pay-TV, as Internet-connected television turns TV into a social medium, according to a new MarketResearch.com report titled "Social TV: How... (Trends: Mass Media to Atomized)
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It's Not Just You: 71 Percent of Tweets Are Ignored
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WIRED...
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10/12/10 
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What did you say?
()
Ever feel like youre talking to a brick wall on Twitter? That might be because 71 percent of tweets get absolutely no response from the world.
Toronto-based social media analytics company Sysomos scanned 1.2 billion messages that were sent in August an... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend, Known Source to Crowdsource, Nameplate to Disembodied, Mass Media to Atomized, Research)
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Apple Takes Share from Google in Mobile Ads
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BLOOMBERGBIZWEEK...
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10/09/10 
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Would Karl Marx have an iPad?
(High graphic quality and top-end products doing well in the elite walled garden.)
... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Print to Electronic)
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Why YouTube Viewers Have ADD and How to Stop It
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ADAGE...
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10/01/10 
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The Video Was Soooooo Long!
(It was still playing right after I started it.)
How often do you click away from online videos while they're playing? Yeah, me too. In a world of nearly infinite choice in online video, it doesn't take much to get bored or distracted or... and poof, we're gone.
This behavior of viewers clicking away or... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Amazon May Be About To Launch Its Own Android App Marketplace
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TECHCRUNCH...
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09/29/10 
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More is more.
(More or less. The scattered Android marketplace has increased power, but lower visibility.)
Details are still vague, so consider this speculative for now, but Amazon is poised to do something that involves Android and it looks like it may be a competitor to Androids official Android Market, which is analogous to the iPhones App Store. Beginni... (Trends: Desktop to Mobile, Homepage to Browser to AppsGadgets)
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Why Netflix Has Already Won the Digital TV/Video War
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ADAGE...
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09/29/10 
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They did it early, and they did it right.
()
Now that premium entertainment is becoming easy to stream from web to TV, the race to monetize growing consumer demand is becoming fierce. The stakeholders include nearly the entire internet -- Google, Apple, Amazon, Hulu -- and nearly the entire entertain... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Mass Media to Atomized)
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72% of US Adults Support Violent-Game Ban For Minors
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GAMESPOT...
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09/16/10 
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Don't teach them to shoot with video guns.
(Only real guns allowed up to age 17. )
Zogby survey of 2,100 adults find nearly three-quarters favor law forbidding sale of "ultraviolent or sexually violent" games to children; full 75% disapprove of industry's handling.
The US Supreme Court won't start hearing arguments over California's l... (Trends: Audience to Participants)
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Google Weaves Social Media Into Search
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READWRITEWEB.COM...
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09/16/10 
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It'w Not What You're Looking For.
(It's who your chatting with/about when you're looking for that counts)
Mike Melanson
As we get closer to - and hear more about - the launch of Google's upcoming social product, Google Me, the less and less it seems like a stand-alone social network and more like an interweaving of social connections into its existing offer... (Trends: Geography to Topic, Local to Granfalloon)
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Small Biz Embrace Social Media and Pay the Price
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SECURITYWEEK...
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09/16/10 
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Facebook is a Two-Faced Street.
(Social media can open gaping holes in a company's ability to control its message, and its data.)
One third of small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a malware or virus infection via social networks through July of this year, and 23 percent actually lost sensitive data via these networks, according to Panda Securitys first annual Social M... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Known Source to Crowdsource)
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Why a school beats Facebook: how behaviors spread through networks
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ARSTECHNICA...
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09/12/10 
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Multiple interpersonal connections speed the spread of behaviors.
(Disease, on the other hand, spreads primarily by contact.)
content
"By Kate Shaw | Last updated 3 days ago
We all spend much of our days engaged in social networks, whether its online, at work, or out with our friends, and we have a tendency to pick up new habits through these connections. A new study in Scie... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,Audience to Participants)
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Intel CEO: Steve Jobs Took A Step Backward With New Apple TV
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BUSINESSINSIDER...
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09/12/10 
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Sometimes it's the Chips. Other times it's the Salsa.
(The real battle here is for the creation of new branded channel space for pay-per-content. It's, like, the store, you know?)
The new Apple TV is for old ladies, while Google TV is for youngsters, says Intel's CEO Paul Otellini.
Otellini, no doubt miffed that Apple is not using Intel chips in Apple TV, says in an interview that Steve Jobs is moving backwards with Apple TV. Googl... (Trends: Free to Paid, Nameplate to Service Bureau)
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Cellphone Carriers Are Turning to Wi-Fi, Too
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NYT...
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09/12/10 
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When Will We Be Anonymous Enough?
(The phone number has changed from a form of identification to a method of disguise. And phone companies, in particular, are doing very well because of it.)
THE definition of a nerd, it has been said, is someone who has more e-mail addresses than pants.
Enlarge This Image
Stuart Goldenberg
Weekend Business Podcast: Damon Darlin on phone mulitiplication.
I have three addresses and three pairs of pants,... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Desktop to Mobile)
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It takes nearly $1 billion/yr to run iTunes
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ASYMCO...
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09/12/10 
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Compared to what?
(I just love reporters who are impressed by big numbers. "One Billion Dollars. Wow!" Is that a lot for the size of iTunes business? Uh, the answer would be "no".)
n recent articles I highlighted the acceleration in iTunes App downloads where the rate is approaching 18 million apps per day and the cumulative total apps which is about to overtake the cumulative songs downloaded.
We now turn our attention now to con... (Trends: Mass Media to Atomized)
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Does the Brain Like E-Books?
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NYT...
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09/04/10 
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Talking dirty: "The future of peripheral attention is social networking, and the trick is to harness such attention some call it distraction well."
(Metaphors be with you! Turn all those distracting other things on the page into mind networked, data-mapped, socialized mind candy. Use Keywords! Oh, Wow! (sigh))
Writing and reading from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones. Traditional book publishers are putting out vooks, which place videos in electroni... (Trends: , Homepage to Browser to AppsGadgets)
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Smaller Cable Networks at Risk of Being Squeezed Out?
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NEWTEEVEE...
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09/04/10 
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When elephants dance, ants get nervous.
(The small fry of the cable world are going to be looking for new relationships.)
... (Trends: Homepage to Browser to AppsGadgets )
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Retargeting Ads Follow You Around The Web
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NYT...
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08/31/10 
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Creepy guys in hoodies sneak up your driveway.
(There they are, on every Web page you visit. They have your new shoes. You know, the ones you looked at last week? One the Web? )
The shoes that Julie Matlin recently saw on Zappos.com were kind of cute, or so she thought. But Ms. Matlin wasnt ready to buy and left the site.
Christinne Muschi for The New York Times
Julie Matlin was tempted by a pair of shoes on Zappos.com. T... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Nameplate to Disembodied)
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Gannett starts local schools sports websites
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WASHINGTONEXAMINER/AP...
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08/23/10 
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Sports will be the next fraction to be cut off from local papers.
(A death of a thousand cuts. Remember real estate? Auto sections? Classifieds? Kiss your sports goodbye.)
MCLEAN, VA. Gannett Co., the biggest U.S. newspaper publisher, said Wednesday it plans to launch a network of more than 100 websites dedicated to local high school sports teams.
Gannett said the new sites will cull material from the company's local news... (Trends: News to Meta News, Geography to Topic)
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Will AOL's 'Patch' Kill Your Local Newspaper?
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YAHOO...
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08/23/10 
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Patch will not kill your local newspaper.
(When the end finally comes, it will be ruled a "justifiable suicide.")
Erik Hayden Wed Aug 18, 1:28 pm ET
WASHINGTON, DC Local newspapers and alt-weeklies, once considered lucrative for their relative monopolies on arts coverage and classified listings, have found themselves assaulted by a variety of hyper-local online s... (Trends: General to Local, Print to Electronic)
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Throwing out software that works
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SCRIPTING.COM...
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08/22/10 
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Proprietary systems and closed shops were all the rage in 1974.
(If you loved the way CompuGraphic, Addressograph-Multigraph, Varityper, or Merganthaler used to do business, you're going to love Apple!)
By Dave Winer on Friday, August 20, 2010 at 2:07 AM.
Interesting piece with a simple point by Marco. (See http://www.marco.org/980434663)
He shows how the smartphone market was transformed in 2007 by the introduction of the iPhone. He's right that th... (Trends: Desktop to Mobile, Audience to Participant, Print to Electronic, Homepage to Browser to AppsGadgets , Nameplate to Service Bureau)
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Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900
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Dr. Philip A. Tresadern...
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08/22/10 
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Open the Pod Bay door, Hal.
(You look at your phone; it looks back at you. What is it thinking?)
A video of your face contains useful information such as who you are, where you are looking and how you are feeling. If we can extract this information from the video, it potentially paves the way for automatic face verification (i.e. determining whether y... (Trends: Audience to Participant, Centralized to Distributed, Desktop to Mobile, Homepage to Browser to AppsGadgets , Known Source to Crowdsource, Mass Media to Atomized, Shared to Solo)
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Incorporating Swarm Intelligence Into Computer AI
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ECONOMIST...
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08/16/10 
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Dogs do it, too.
(And Frat boys. Leaving trails of scent to communicate with others of your species is a survival behavior.)
... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Nameplate to Disembodied, Known Source to Crowdsource, Audience to Participant)
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Immersed In Too Much Information, We Can Sometimes Miss The Big Picture
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NPR...
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08/16/10 
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Tasking is good. Multi-tasking can be good, but it can also block our view of the road.
(Multi-multi-multi-tasking, however, is not so good. )
content
"by DAVE PELL
Even in the era of Facebook, this was not a face I expected to see.
A few weeks ago, I might have argued that its almost impossible to shock members of Generation TMI. I would have been wrong. I was shocked by a recent Time co... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Information overload vs ability to comprehend)
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Rupert Murdoch 'to launch US digital newspaper'
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GUARDIAN...
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08/16/10 
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Construction of Darth Murdoch's Death Star Paper is underway in the far reaches of the Galaxy.
(News Corp is targeting the younger set with a pure mobile play, targeting iPads and smartphones.)
Rupert Murdoch is planning to test his belief in the transformative power of the iPad to bring news to the younger generation by launching a new digital newspaper for America.
The new operation, disclosed by the Los Angeles Times, will be geared specifi... (Trends: , Print to Electronic)
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Narco-blogger beats Mexico drug war news blackout
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AP/SEATTLETIMES...
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08/16/10 
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Is the professional journalist the one with the Journalism degree, or the one being shot at?
(The depressing thing about the future of Journalism is that Journalism training is out the window. The trick is in finding a new way to maintain reliability and accuracy among a gaggle of volunteers.)
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY
An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere - an inside view of their country's raging drug war.
Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer s... (Trends: , Known Source to Crowdsource)
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Dashboard Concept Great For Newspapers
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NETVIBES...
|
08/11/10 
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Let users build the "paper" they want. Unfortunately, "NetVibes" interface is a chunky-monkey giants scroller that merely ("merely") parses other sites' news pages and reproduces them verbatin, without the ads.
(On the other hand, the concept is excellent. Let them (readers users) build their own nameplated-page full of gadgets and news feeds and filtered searches. Let them pick from columns and sections. Let the user vote on which parts of the content package h)
... (Trends: Free to Paid,)
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The Problem With Cable Is Television
|
NYT...
|
08/10/10 
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Programming costs my break up the cable tiers.
(Still angry about golf & cooking channels and no real sci-fi anymore. )
By SAUL HANSELL
Ive been looking closely at the recently announced first-quarter financial results of Comcast and Time Warner, the countrys two largest cable systems.
Matt Rourke/AP
Over all, these companies are doing quite well, making more money... (Trends: Free to Paid, Print to Electronic, Geography to Topic)
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Is Twitter a national mood ring?
|
CNN...
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08/09/10 
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We can see what you're thinking.
("Never before have academic researchers had access to this much real-time public information about what people are thinking and saying.")
... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, Audience to Participant, News to Meta News, Local to Granfalloon)
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Vonage: Free Phone Calls for Facebook Users
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AP...
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08/08/10 
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Android and iPhone App lets users connect directly.
(The final atomization of media will be followed by a reception at the River Styx. )
Vonage has introduced two apps that allow you to make free phone calls to your Facebook friends nationally and internationally.
The apps, called Vonage Mobile for Facebook, are available free for the iPhone and Android phones.
The app is very simple to... (Trends: Mass Media to Atomized, Print to Electronic)
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'iPod oblivion' blamed for 17 accidents a day
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DAILYMAIL...
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08/08/10 
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I'd worry more about drivers who are reading. Or shaving. Or putting on makeup.
(Any device that monopolizes your attention -- as good media does -- takes you away from your real-world tasks. Yet, this represents no net change from the past. Drivers have been crashing their cars into things because they were distracted since cares we)
... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Desktop to Mobile, News to Meta News, Shared to Solo)
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Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered
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ALTERNET...
|
08/08/10 
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Who knew you couldn't trust a shouting crowd?
(Crowd-sourced networks are vulnerable to devious maniulation. Majority rule is the danger in democracy.)
... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief, Known Source to Crowdsource)
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Selfish Elites vs. Independent Geeks?
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MYTYPE...
|
07/29/10 
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Porsches are not evil cars.
(But their owners are usually, uh, "characteristic." Turns out the same might be said of users of Apple iAnythingers, Pit Bull dog owners, Coca Cola die-hards, and Hummer SUV drivers. (OK, I made up the Hummer part. But, think about it.))
(Updated with comments on methodology below) The iPad is one of the more controversial mainstream technology products in recent memory. Some love it, others think its pointless. Naturally, the debaters believe that their opinions are about the product. ... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Audience to Participants,Desktop to Mobile,Class Warfare)
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Forced iAds Coming To OS X?
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APPLEINSIDER...
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07/29/10 
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Don't Assume That Apple Is Groovy.
(Pay top dollar for everything (note: a very high-quality "everything") and then have to sit through ads? Sounds like going to the movies.)
Apple could be creating an operating system supported by advertisements, allowing users to obtain the software at a reduced price, or for free, in exchange for being required to view ads.
The patent application for the invention "Advertisement in Operat... (Trends: Free to Paid)
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Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing
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FORBES...
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07/29/10 
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Crowdsourcing Greatest Threat to Publishing, Too.
(Crowdsourcing combines the best features of professional-quality work and slavery, with just a touch of fluff and BS. Not the best place to look for truth.)
Experienced designers disdain companies like 99designs, which thrives on hordes of people willing to work for a mere chance at a payout.
Mix crowdsourcing, the Internet and a huge pool of underemployed graphic designers, and the outcome is a company tha... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, Local to Granfalloon)
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WikiLeaks cuts a new, wired path for journalism
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REUTERS...
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07/27/10 
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New, citizen-mediated reporting and information sources still need the wisdom (uh, experience) and savvy (uh, access to the pipes) of traditional media gto provide analysis
(According to this analysis by traditional media, of course, which did not break the story.)
NEW YORK/LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) - The Pentagon said it could take weeks to determine how much damage WikiLeaks' release of military documents on the war in Afghanistan did to national security. It took only minutes to gauge its effect on the way people ... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed)
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Free Vs. Paid Shapes Media Debate
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SYDNEYMORNINGHERALD...
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07/27/10 
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Newspapers have already had this conversation.
(Free circulation vs. paid has always been the frontier, with Free dominating the smaller community pubs and paid dominating the capital-intensive high-circulation dailies and magazines. It is usually a function of geographic scale.)
Top technology and media executives wrapped up a three-day conference here during which they grappled with - and left unresolved - the question of whether readers will pay for news online.
Firmly in the paid camp in the "paid vs. free" debate was News C... (Trends: , Nameplate to Disembodied)
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METAWEB (FreeBase): Real-Time Wide-Spread Content Indexing Service.
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METAWEB...
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07/18/10 
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Barcodes for content. A unique approach to making information valuable (or findable).
(notes
"Metaweb provide real-time indexing of ""partners"" content and cross-mapping their content molecules to a category of millions of ""entities"" (uh, ""subjects."")")
YouTube... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Creation to Aggregation,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Empty World at Times and Sunday Times Online
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NEWSER...
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07/17/10 
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Yes, Newser. Citing "sources."
(Some reports have Murdoch's London paywall failing miserably. Other reports (not reported here) say the numbers are misleading, as all "dead tree" subscribers have full access.)
My sources say that not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to the paper itselfwho have free access to the siteare not going beyond the registration page. Its an empty world
... (Trends: Free to Paid, Print to Electronic)
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Real-time wide-spread news content indexing service.
|
METAWEB...
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07/17/10 
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A unique approach to makeing information valuable.
(Metaweb provide real-time indexing of "partners" content and cross-mapping their content molecules to a category of millions of "entities" (uh, "subjects."))
... (Trends: News to Meta News)
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UK Press Boss Admits: We Have Not Invested enough In Journalism
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GUARDIAN_UK...
|
07/09/10 
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But Executive Managers got some really, really keen bonuses!
(After all, the boat is only sinking on the bottom. The top is still quite dry.)
A Johnston Press executive has admitted what some of us have known, and said, for years. Its cutbacks have been too close to the bone and the company expanded unwisely.
Or, to quote the exact words of Michael Johnston, managing director of JP's Scottish... (Trends: Hyper-Local / Small Town Survivors)
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CEO of AOL wants to fix technologically-challenged journalism
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EDITORSWEBLOG...
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06/10/10 
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Carole Wurzelbacher'S take on AOL's approach to Citizen Journalism. Smart woman.
(She mentions that AOL's Tim Armstrong said "content space will become the epicenter of the internet." I would note that "Epicenter" is the surface spot directly above (as Wikipedia claims) "the point where the fault begins to rupture, and in most cases, it)
The CEO of AOL recently said that he hopes his company will be the "world's largest producer of high quality content," reports Business Insider. Tim Armstrong, AOL's CEO, reported during an Internet Week panel that he hopes for AOL to hire hundreds more jo... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Hyper-Local / Small Town Survivors)
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Spanish Judge Rules File-Sharing Not Illegal -- Judges Liken P2P To The Ancient Practice of Lending Books
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TORRENTFREAK...
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06/09/10 
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If it's media, it's for sale in Spain.
(Rampant bootlegging and file sharing threatens EU, World Copyrights)
By Howell Llewellyn, Madrid
A legal twist appears to ensure that Spain will continue to offer massive headaches to anti-piracy campaigners and untold joy to the growing number of Internet users and operators who swear by what they call "free culture."
... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, News to Meta News)
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Cloud-as-router Presages Virtual Hosting
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PCMAG...
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06/05/10 
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Everything On Your Camera/Phone is Mine!
(Applications that use the cloud as a router, and automatically collect images and other data from cellphones and other interactive devices from within a geographic area. Another really great idea with some really frightening unintended consequences.)
... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Stop The Presses: 'Sunset' For Print In Five Years, FT Sees
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PAIDCONTENTUK...
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05/27/10 
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No more printed newspaper?
(After seeing this morning's Denver Post, I am thinking this might be a good result.)
For years, even many of us in the online realm had countered digital prophesies of "the death of print" with cautious reservation.
But now - as newsprint costs rise, digital operations grow their importance to publishers and driving delivery trucks arou... (Trends: Free to Paid, Print to Electronic)
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iPad 'won't help newspaper publishers'
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CRIKEY.COM.AU...
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05/25/10 
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If it looks like a newspaper, and doesn't make money for newspapers, who gives a crap?
(You should. And you should be very, very worried. The iPad and similar devices can't save a business that depends on publishing a version of the same product in every city.)
There's a lot of enthusiasm about the iPad being a saviour of the newspaper industry, mostly because Rupert Murdoch seemed to bless it. Last week, John Witherow, editor of the Sunday Times, spoke of its transformational qualities while brandishing one duri... (Trends: Free to Paid, Nameplate to Service Bureau)
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Media startup steps up big-time
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DENVERPOST...
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05/25/10 
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The Post calls it an eBay-like service for online articles, photos and video.
(An online app-store for bloggers and freelance journalists, utilizing market forces in place of centralized editing and control.)
One of Colorado's most successful Internet startups sits smack in the middle of tony Cherry Creek, sharing a four-story office building with an H&R Block tax-service shop and a youth learning center.
Silicon Valley, this is not.
That puts more shine ... (Trends: Audience to Participant, Centralized to Distributed)
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Three Birds, a Billionaire and the Hyper-Local Future of News
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NEWYORKOBSERVER...
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05/21/10 
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Terrible headline. Great story.
(Hyper-local NYC lower-east-side news site funded by Wyoming billionaire tackles the small.)
On the morning of Monday, May 17, a Web site called DNAinfo.com published a story about a rooster named Napoleon Bonaparte and two hens, named Lucy and Apple. The story was a classic nugget of neighborhood reporting: a concise anecdote about how officials ... (Trends: Audience to Participant,)
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Keywords Replace Headlines
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NYT...
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05/20/10 
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Can you feel anything when I do this?
(The oldest game on the web is fooling search engines so people see your porno. As news becomes the ultimate fractal business model, every little sticky spot will help. )
Dont know who Taylor Momsen is? Neither do I, beyond that she is the mean one on Gossip Girl. But Facebook knows her well, Twitter loves her, and she and Google have been hooking up, like, forever.
Add to Portfolio
Google Inc
Go to your Portfolio »... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Mass Media to Atomized)
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News Is Just a Product Placement In India
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NYT...
|
05/14/10 
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(mwCPcw srptazpa bzwwicgl iryboqui)
mwCPcw srptazpa bzwwicgl iryboqui... (Trends: Nameplate to Service Bureau)
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The Return of Coupons
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NYT...
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05/13/10 
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Newspapers deliver more paper than news.
(The value of the newspaper industry has always been its delivery system. Now, with coupon redemption rates soaring, new eyes are looking at that channel.)
... (Trends: General to Local)
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Few Americans Use Twitter
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EDISONRESEARCH...
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05/03/10 
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Twitter is a Seven Percent Solution.
(Thirty-two percent of Americans believe in ghosts, 37% percent believe their houses are haunted, 10% believe that the moon landing was staged. Oops. Over the 140-character limit.)
... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Making money with mobile
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NEWS&TECH...
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05/03/10 
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The iPad and mobile markets are exploding, and publishers must get in.
(Like wild horses to fresh water.)
By Marcelo Duran and Tara McMeekin Editors | 1 comment
If newspapers weren't already thinking about their mobile strategies before April 3, they certainly are now.
Last month's release of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPad galvanized papers large and small to as... (Trends: Desktop to Mobile,)
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UMaryland: Students Addicted to Social Media
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UMARYLAND...
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04/23/10 
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Addiction symptoms similar to drugs and alcohol. Addiction behavior similar to porn.
(The addicting aspect is the heightened sensory experience of anticipating the NEXT message, which is greater than the pleasure of the message still on the screen. It's the gambler's experience. It's the homicidal maniac's experience. It's the online gam)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - American college students today are addicted to media, describing their feelings when they have to abstain from using media in literally the same terms associated with drug and alcohol addictions: In withdrawal, Frantically craving, Ver... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Information overload vs ability to comprehend)
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Two-thirds of World Internet Users Use Social Media
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NIELSENWIRE...
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04/21/10 
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Member Communities activity soaked up one in every 15 online minutes in 2007, one in 11 in 2008 worldwide.
(The number is one is six in the U.K., and one in four in Brazil. Some suspect that US Teenagers actually spend more minutes online than living.)
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/facebook_growth.png... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Nikkei Builds Link Wall Around News Web Site
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NYT...
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04/11/10 
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Private-pond news is a tempting concept.
(The hard part is building a page that not valuable if it is read. The reverse-headedness of the concept is what makes it difficult.)
... (Trends: Free to Paid, General to Local)
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Nikkei Restricts Links to Its New Web Site
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NYT...
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04/08/10 
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Japanese daily lifts paywall around web site.
(Perhaps we will develop a yen for the good old days.)
... (Trends: Free to Paid, General to Local, Small Town Survivors)
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Twitter Forcasts Box Office Results
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LATIMES...
|
04/06/10 
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The sum total of all tweets is more accurate than any individual twit.
(We call it "Meta-News", information derived from information overload.)
pril 02, 2010|By Jessica Guynn and John Horn
Want to know how "Clash of the Titans" will fare at the box office this weekend?
Check Twitter.
So say two Silicon Valley researchers who claim they have discovered a way to use the popular social media s... (Trends: News to Meta News, Audience to Participants)
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Print Newspapers to Survive a Decade, Sun-Times
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BIZWEEK...
|
04/06/10 
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They carried stuff out of the house until it was an empty shell.
(And then they started ripping the siding and the shingles off, and carried away the doors and windows. But it was still our home.)
By Greg Bensinger
April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Printed newspapers will probably survive as much as a decade before being largely replaced by digital news, said James Tyree, who led the October buyout of the Chicago Sun-Times publisher.
Newspapers have go... (Trends: Small Town Survivors, National to Local)
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Charge for News! Yes, Do It! C
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NEWSER...
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03/20/10 
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Paywalls are no protection from content theft.
(Think about it. For $6 a month, Newser can take all your stuff anyway and distribute it to zillions of readers.)
Im in London at the Guardians Changing Media Summit conference.
Guess the subject that has most often come up. Yes, yes, pay walls. The absolute determination on the part of many of the worlds most powerful news organizations to charge for content. ... (Trends: Free to Paid)
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New Google Hire Attacks Apple, the iPhone
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BUSINESSINSIDER...
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03/17/10 
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RF's New Study of Online Behavior Focuses On User Intent
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RUDERFINN...
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03/08/10 
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Authors measure online activity by the categorical intent of the user.
(Learn, Have Fun, Socialize, Express Yourself, Advocate, Do Business, Shop.)
Study not available online.... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Services become Games)
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Dimensions of Online Behavior: Toward a User Typology
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LIEBERT...
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03/08/10 
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The salient features of online behavior are conceptualized as sociability (human connection motives), utility (efficiency orientation), and reciprocity (cognitive stimulation and active involvement)
(These are the attributes of paying attention.)
Online behavior refers to organized (e.g., search) and unorganized (e.g., browse) interactions with both human (e.g., chat) and nonhuman (e.g., database) elements in online environments. The salient features of online behavior are conceptualized as sociabi... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized)
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AP, Conde Nast to Offer Content on iPad
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EWEEK...
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03/01/10 
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The IPad's success is tied to the content farm behind it.
(AP's Gateway will provide a business news service, and Conde Naste may lead with either Modern Bride, or Wired. )
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The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism
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POYNTER...
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02/23/10 
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Steve Outing's remarkable analysis of Citizen Journalism.
(Must reading.)
"Citizen journalism." It's one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business these days. Many news executives are probably thinking about implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative; a small but growing number have already done so.
RELATED R... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Known Source to Crowdsource, Local to Granfalloon)
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AOL To Launch
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BUSINESSINSIDER...
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02/23/10 
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Zoning laws may have to be enacted to regulate uncontrolled growth of hyper-local websites at every intersection on the Information Superhighway.
(Back in the old days we dreamed about the "Wired Nation," and wound up with Comcast and Cox. Then we dreamed about the "Information Superhighway," and wound up with porno and spam. Now we're anticipating "Hyperlocal Websites." Too many hyperlocal websi)
According to an internal communication with employees, AOL (AOL) plans to expand Patch, its network of local news blogs, from 30 sites to "hundreds," by the end of 2010.
The goal: "To be leaders in one of the most promising 'white spaces' on the Internet.... (Trends: General to Local, Nameplate to Service Bureau, Small Town Survivors)
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Publishers Should Create Toll Gate For Premium Content
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ONLINEMEDIADAILY...
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02/22/10 
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The advertising industry has become much too nice, and companies need to stop being afraid to interrupt the consumers with ads.
(Because it is profitable to be rude.)
... (Trends: Free to Paid, Print to Electronic)
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Make No Mistake: Internet Content Subscription Models will come!
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BROADBANDBREAKFAST...
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02/22/10 
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Leonard Grace is a former Cable TV exec, and he's got advice for newspapers.
(You guys should charge more. But don't do it like cable did, with all those golf channels.)
Why do Internet users continually resist paid content on a systematic basis? Keep in mind that many current Internet business models were built on the premise, (create the content and they will come). We have all seen the sterling examples of this model wi... (Trends: Creation to Aggregation)
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Nielsen Study Shows Rocky Pay Road
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NIELSON...
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02/22/10 
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Why should we pay online when we get it for free in the uh, um, hmmm.
(Experienced pollsters know that certain questions will always get a negative response, and a headline. "Do you want higher taxes?" "Should I hit you with a hammer?" "Are you a racist?")
... (Trends: Free to Paid, Nameplate to Disembodied)
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Google adds Twitter, Blogs as news sources
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EDITORSBLOG...
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12/08/09 
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We report, you decide.
(Is it news, or just gossip? Now, we report, you figure it out for yourself. Good luck with that.)
... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, Nameplate to Disembodied)
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Pew Finds Gadgety Youngsters Most Likely Tweeters
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HUFFINGTONPOST...
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10/23/09 
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(Kids do the darndest things. Kids and U.S. House Members.)
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet use... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Audience to Participants)
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NETWORKWORLD...
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10/10/09 
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(Welcome to ApWorld. The Newspaper of the Future will be a place were readers DO things, instead of just read. )
... (Trends: Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic)
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Condé Nast Launches Dating Site
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CONDENASTE...
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10/10/09 
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(Yahoo has a dating site. Alternative weeklies have dating sites. MSN has a dating site. AOL has a dating site. Newspapers used to have classifieds.)
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Politicians' Tweets Are Mostly Self-Promotional, Researchers Say
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TWP...
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09/18/09 
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(The Death of Twitter? "A team of researchers from the University of Maryland plodded through more than 6,000 Twitter postings" ... to discover ... "politicians spend most of their time on Twitter promoting themselves." )
The arrival of Twitter on Capitol Hill has given ordinary citizens access to the candid, real-time thoughts of their elected representatives.
Like this dispatch from Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii): just completed weightlifting workout at the Nuuanu Y.... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter
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SLASHDOT...
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08/17/09 
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(The seeds of a great idea lie in this study. The best study would be to measure every electronic communication for tone, nouns, seditious content. Say, isn't that what Poindexter wanted to do?
The compromise is personal liberty, privacy, invisibility, an)
... (Trends: News to Meta News, Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth)
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Start-Up Plans to Make Journalism Pirates Pay Up
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NYT...
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07/27/09 
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(Oh, Ted Nelson, where are you now? "Micropayment" was the heart and soul of Nelson's "Thinking Machines", a vision of an electronic world where you could follow links back to their origination, instead of their destination like the World Wide Web. Giving)
nline piracy isnt just a problem for music companies; it hurts newspapers and magazines as well. News organizations are now trying to do something about the many Web sites that simply copy articles and paste them into their own pages.
Enlarge This Imag... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, Mass Media to Atomized)
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USA Today To Introduce Paid Digital Edition To Be Delivered By E-Mail
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HUFFINGTON...
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07/10/09 
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USA Today To Introduce Paid Digital Edition To Be Delivered By E-Mail
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NEW YORK USA Today's new publisher said Wednesday he hopes to expand the newspaper's revenue from mobile phones and portable electronic reading devices, and pledged to fight The Wall Street Journal's bid for readers in hotels.
The comments from David ... (Trends: Paid to Free to Paid to Free, Mass Media to Atomized)
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USA Today To Introduce Paid Digital Edition To Be Delivered By E-Mail
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HUFFINGTON...
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07/10/09 
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USA Today To Introduce Paid Digital Edition To Be Delivered By E-Mail
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Internet most popular information source: poll
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ZOGBY...
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06/18/09 
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(Reuters)
UTICA, New York - As broadcast television network newscasts continue to lose viewers by the month, a new online survey by Zogby Interactive shows that the Internet is by far the preferred source for information, and that it is considered the most reliable ... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, Known Source to Crowdsource, Centralized to Distributed, Mass Media to Atomized)
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A newspaper business model that's workin
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CSM...
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05/07/09 
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Hyperlocal is not news to the small town paper.
(There is only "local" in small towns.)
y Dan McDonough Jr., Alan Bauer / May 6, 2009
Haddonfield, N.J.
It's widely reported and has become generally accepted that the newspaper model is either dying or already dead, when, in fact, thousands of newspapers across the country are doing qu... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Geography to Topic)
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'Individuated' news tested
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DENPOST...
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03/08/09 
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Can America's paper of record survive the death of the Gray Lady?
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NYT...
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03/07/09 
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Google Disrupts--Again
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FORBES...
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03/06/09 
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Backfence: Lessons Learned
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RECOVERINGJOURNALIST...
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07/15/07 
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Mark Potts gets it.
(More, he's done it, lived it, breathed it. )
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Yahoo Teams With Newspapers to Sell Ads
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NYT...
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04/17/07 
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(Right. And "Sharks Team With Dophins To Attract National Geographic Helicopters." A better headline might be "Newspapers Team With Yahoo To Pretend It's OK.")
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Chronicle of the Newspaper Death Foretold
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SLATE...
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11/30/06 
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Chronicle of the newspaper death foretold. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
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ADAGE Bob Garfield's 'Chaos Scenario'
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ADAGE...
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04/13/05 
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Goodbye copy desks, hello trouble?
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NRJ...
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05/25/98 
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Goodbye copy desks, hello trouble? | Newspaper Research Journal | Find Articles at BNET
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... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed)
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Most Social Media Users Are Addicted
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WEBROOT...
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But we could quit anytime! Really! We don't really need it, I mean, not really, do we?
(Webroot's annual survey of Social Networking shows that users get lots of 'cookies' from their social media.)
Third annual report finds cybercrime on social networks continues to climb despite increased privacy and security measures
Broomfield, Colo., August 16, 2011
With malware showing no signs of abating on social networks and continuous news of the privacy i... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Audience to Participants)
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