Category: Data Governance

  • Status People Fake Follower Check

      Status People Fake Follower Check — Social Media Management Platform for Business   statuspeople.com     http://flpbd.it/9tryc   Related articles I Bought 10,000 Fake Twitter Followers. Why Didn’t Klout, Kred (or Others) Notice? (ignitesocialmedia.com) Twitter followers available on the open market (cbc.ca) How Do Those Fake Tweeple Hurt (insideview.ie) Want that Twitter verification badge?…

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

    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,… http://flpbd.it/BNd2F Related articles Mitt in…

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  • Apple vs Samsung case in photos

    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… http://flpbd.it/tLwVj Related articles…

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  • Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval

    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… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe’s Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million…

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  • Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: fact or fiction?

    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…

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

    Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free. Related articles The Declaration of Internet Freedom (muninetworks.org) Civil liberties groups praise revised cybersecurity bill (networkworld.com) Google and Facebook’s new tactic in the tech wars (tech.fortune.cnn.com) Is it time for an online ‘constitutional moment’? On the Declaration of Internet Freedom (blogs.siliconvalley.com) Journalists,…

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  • Wifi laptops exposure and reproductive health

    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…

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

    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…

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

    This guy is an expert on the use of knowledge management approaches and anthropological data (human terrain) in military systems. Barry G. Silverman. Related articles ZyDoc Expands NIH SBIR NLP Grant for EHR Usability Research Study to Other Facilities (prweb.com) Bertrand Duperrin: Making internal collaboration work: An interview with Don Tapscott (mckinseyquarterly.com) Is there a…

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  • A scientific ethics of code

    A scientific ethics of code : Effect Measure. Related articles With Morality Seemingly in Decline, the In View with Larry King TV Series Announces Plans for A New Series on Business Ethics (prweb.com) Male Scientists More Likely to Commit Research Misconduct than Females (sci-news.com) Men more likely than women to commit scientific fraud (eurekalert.org)

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  • The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen

    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…

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