Category: Data Governance

  • 33% of seafood is mislabeled in NYC

    Study Finds A Third Of NYC’s Seafood Is Mislabeled, Posing Health Risks Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (J Dailey)It isn’t just Los Angeles that is having a problem with mislabeled fish — a new study that tested seafood on menus, at grocery stores and in fancy specialty shops in New York City says plenty of the…

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  • Mitt’s son says he was not up for the job

    Mitt’s Son Says He Never Wanted to be President Anyway Connor Simpson, theatlanticwire.com If you thought the tale of how Mitt Rom­ney lost the gen­er­al elec­tion was already told, you would be wrong. Because there is so much left to tell, like how Mitt never want­ed to be Pres­i­dent any­way. At least, that’s what Tagg…

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  • Why military weapons don’t belong in our communities

    Obama: `Weapon of War’ Has No Place in American Communities Bloomberg By The Numbers » 15.5 How many points the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort index rose in the past 17 weeks., bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by Scott Olson/Getty Images A “weapon of war” — Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s term today for the semi-automatic assault rifle used in the slay­ing of…

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  • Gun deaths set to surpass traffic deaths soon

    American Gun Deaths to Exceed Traffic Fatalities by 2015 By Chris Christoff & Ilan Kolet -, bloomberg.com Guns and cars have long been among the lead­ing caus­es of non-medical deaths in the U.S. By 2015, firearm fatal­i­ties will prob­a­bly exceed traf­fic fatal­i­ties for the first time, based on data com­piled by Bloomberg. While motor-vehicle… RT…

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  • Intelligence agencies use iPhones and iPads–in top secret mode

    How America’s Spies Use iPhones And iPads By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Deep inside the NSA guidelines for iOS, warnings about “juice-jacking,” “hot mikes,” and requirements to cover iPad cameras with tape. Years ago, when spooks and gov­ern­ment employ­ees need­ed a secure smart­phone, they turned to Research in… RT @nealunger: iSpy: Inside the #NSA’s best practices…

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  • Visualize the management team’s mutations

    Infographic: Watch A Company’s Management Team Mutate Over 4 Years By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com What would your corporate structure look like if you tracked every employee, manager, and department over years? Maybe a lot like this. Unless you’re self-employed, we’re all cogs in a larg­er machine. The prob­lem can be, how do you track that……

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  • Talented workers bring their own devices

    Worried Workers: BYOD Or You’re SOL [Infographic] Brian Proffitt, readwrite.com It is a common perception around the world that Americans, by and large, have problems relaxing. We don’t take what little vacations we do get and increasingly use technology to blur the line between work and home life. But a new study shows that… RT…

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  • Obama knew you’d vote: social science

    How Obama Knew How You’d Vote, Even Before You Did Dan Rowinski, readwrite.com Imaging you were a political analyst who time traveled from 1990s to November 5, 2012. A quick look at the national polls for the presidential election, you would probably have thought that Republican nominee Mitt Romney had a pretty good shot at……

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  • How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation

    discovermagazine.com Like the debate on climate change and other societally important issues caught in the maw of our culture wars, the discourse on guns and violence has had a depressing, unchanging quality. Here’s President Obama two years ago: You see, when a trage… http://flip.it/R8QPz How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation Related articles Climate…

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  • Patent trolls own Sony IP

    Jury finds iPhone infringes Nokia, Sony patents owned by “troll” Joe Mullin, arstechnica.com Flickr user Jesus LeonWhen MobileMedia Ideas formed in 2010, it was probably the biggest sign yet that the idea of “patent-trolling” had gone corporate. The company exists solely to get licensing fees from essentially the entire cell phone… RT @arstechnica: Jury finds…

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  • The purpose of biotech regulation is to avoid growing bone in your eye

    Unproven Stem-Cell Cosmetic Treatments Can Grow Bones In Your Eyes By Paul Adams, popsci.com New cosmetic creams and therapies that make use of stem cells carry bizarre, gruesome risks. A woman in Los Ange­les went to her doc­tor with pain and click­ing in her eye­lid, fol­low­ing a cos­met­ic pro­ce­dure a few months ear­li­er. The… Unproven…

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  • Eco disaster redistributes tech to those in need

    Rogue Hurricane Sandy volunteers are redistributing wealth By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Politics New York­ers weary of urban inequal­i­ty have taken it upon them­selves to pil­fer equip­ment from lux­u­ry devel­op­ment sites in the after­math of Hur­ri­cane Sandy, and redis­trib­ute it to those in need. The group is oper­at­ing… RT @WiredUK: Rogue Hurricane Sandy volunteers are redistributing…

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