Category: Data Governance

Status People Fake Follower Check

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy
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Followers (Photo credit: Shockmotion)

 

Status People Fake Follower Check — Social Media Management Platform for Business

 

statuspeople.com

 

 

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Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management
Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts,...
Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, 2008 US presidential candidate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes

Dan Goodin, arstechnica.com

More than 15 per­cent of Mitt Rom­ney’s Twit­ter fol­low­ers may be gen­er­at­ed by paid ser­vices that use fake accounts to arti­fi­cial­ly inflate the num­ber of peo­ple sub­scribed to the pre­sump­tive Repub­li­can nom­i­nee for US Pres­i­dent,…

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Apple vs Samsung case in photos

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management
iPhone and iPhone 3G camera comparison
iPhone and iPhone 3G camera comparison (Photo credit: Neven Mrgan)

Apple’s case that Samsung copied the iPhone and iPad—in pictures

Jon Brodkin, arstechnica.com

With the Apple v. Sam­sung patent trial under­way, Apple is mak­ing its case that Sam­sung’s phones and tablets are ripoffs of the iPhone and iPad. We’ve had exten­sive cov­er­age of the tes­ti­mo­ny from our reporter in the cour­t­house, a…

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Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search
Image representing 23andMe as depicted in Crun...
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Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval


Monya Baker, nature.com

Per­son­al genet­ics com­pa­ny 23andMe announced Mon­day that it was seek­ing FDA approval for an ini­tial batch of seven health-related tests with scores more to fol­low.

23andMe, based in Moun­tain View, Cal­i­for­nia, mar­kets genet­ics test­…

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Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: fact or fiction?

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Security & Privacy, Systems Science
Loop moving in magnetic field
Loop moving in magnetic field (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Recently I’ve become aware of more and more concern about the electromagnetic soup we are embedded in from all of our various gadgets. While Europe has taken a much more cautious approach on this, the USA as always, has let free enterprise rule. Here is a fairly balanced Wiki article on this topic. Needless to say, I am now taking precautions to minimize my exposure but still maintain my connections which I require for business.

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Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy
CDT logo
CDT logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free.

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Wifi laptops exposure and reproductive health

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Health Informatics, Network Science, Security & Privacy, Systems Science
English: Electron microscope image of sperm.
English: Electron microscope image of sperm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For years, other countries have been far more cautious about the impacts of electromagnetic radiation on human health than in the US and far too little is known about this as we increasingly expose ourselves to these fields. In parts of Europe for example there are much stricter regulations on exposure to EMFs than in the US. Recently new research shows an additional area of potential concern: Wifi signal and a laptop can damage sperm performance including causing a decrease in human sperm motility, sperm DNA fragmentation (irreversible changes in the genetic code), damaging up to 25% of the sperm. As a result, while we may need many technologies to work, we should be careful to limit my exposure through certain measures. Personally I am cautious to ensure adequate distance between electric sources since EMFs decrease significantly with distance.

Wi-Fi Laptops Harm Sperm Motility And Increase Sperm DNA Fragmentation.

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Prey: Affordable tools emerge to track and visualize the travels of your devices

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Design UX, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Security & Privacy
English: MacBook Pro at the desktop.
English: MacBook Pro at the desktop. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Over the past years, I’ve realized that my devices and the information they store is increasingly important to me. But unlike many commercial sectors from pharmaceuticals to shipping, there was no consumer level technology to easily, inexpensively and legally monitor them and their use. However recently new applications such as Prey and Apple’s Find my iPhone have emerged that will do just that. This technology uses GPS and Wifi (such as Boston’s Skyhook Wireless, which looks for nearby Wi-Fi networks). Other remote access programs such as TeamViewer can be used similarly and take photos and videos remotely. And even automate cloud based backup programs such as Mozy, Backblaze, and SugarSync can be used to view files accidentally stored by a thief. Bentley University student, Mark Bao, hilariously posted a video of a thief who stole his $1800 MacBook Pro and was dancing in his kitchen on YouTube. And often thieves will access key personal sites such as Facebook. Some services such as Zoombak allow you to monitor anything you can stick a tracker on but fees are still expensive for widespread use. Sometimes, the application is not specific enough to  locate the device since GPS is not totally precise.

Owners of missing gadgets can now do their own sleuthing – Boston.com.

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Intelligence agencies, mired in inefficiencies, begin to adopt social science and crowd sourcing methods

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Digital health, Information Visualization, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy
US Director of National Intelligence seal
US Director of National Intelligence seal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management.  Social scientists have found that combining many people’s predictions — even if they are not experts — usually yields better results than any single person’s judgment. With 200,000 people in its direct employ, and nearly 1 million outsiders holding security clearances, the US intelligence network would seem to be a perfect place to take advantage of the wisdom of the herd — except that so many of these people work in compartmentalized and secretive units. To solve this problem, IARPA is awarding grants to teams of social scientists to craft the best approaches to pooling multiple sources of intelligence analysis, generating more accurate predictions than individual departments might manage on their own.

The examined spy – Boston.com.

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U. Penn KM expert Barry G. Silverman analyzes human terrain data

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health
Knowledge Management Cafe
Knowledge Management Cafe (Photo credit: Emilie Ogez)

This guy is an expert on the use of knowledge management approaches and anthropological data (human terrain) in military systems.

Barry G. Silverman.

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A scientific ethics of code

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy
31/365 - Tape measure
31/365 – Tape measure (Photo credit: Ruth_W)

A scientific ethics of code : Effect Measure.

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The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Security & Privacy
Wingtip vortices are visible upon a F-15E as i...
Wingtip vortices are visible upon a F-15E as it disengages from refueling with a KC-10 during Operation Iraqi Freedom (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Book Review – ‘The Accidental Guerrilla,’ by David Kilcullen – NYTimes.com.

Anthropologist David Kilcullen is a former officer in the Australian Army, a strategist and a scholar. He is also an expert on counterinsurgency, or how to combat a rebellion, and one of the few brave souls who had the ear of people in the Bush White House and advised against the invasion of Iraq. Great book.

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