Category: Data Governance

Bankers realize food speculation is causing global food insecurity

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

Banks consider quitting food speculation due to role in global hunger
By Brandon Keim, wired.co.uk

Business

Finan­cial giant Bar­clays is con­sid­er­ing an end to food spec­u­la­tion, a con­tro­ver­sial prac­tice linked to sud­den, dan­ger­ous spikes in glob­al food prices.

Rich Ricci, head of Bar­clays’ cor­po­rate and invest­ment bank­ing…

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NRA hides under the social media covers

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

National Rifle Association disappears from Facebook and stops tweeting in wake of school shooting
By T.C. Sottek, theverge.com

The Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA) — the largest gun rights advo­ca­cy group and one of the pre­vail­ing lob­by­ing orga­ni­za­tions in the Unit­ed States — has pulled back from its social media pres­ence fol­low­ing the New­town, Con­necti­…

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Benchmarking cloud sync and storage

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off
By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com

Does Drive stand a chance against sync and backup veterans?

Google’s very own “Loch Ness monster,” also known as Google Drive, has final­ly launched. It’s the new face of Google Doc­u­ments, and it’s also Google’s oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It…

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Ambient electricity sounds and forensic digital anthropology

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Electricity’s ‘hum’ helps forensic experts detect manipulated audio recordings
By Chris Welch, theverge.com

An aver­age per­son on the street may find it hard to tell the dif­fer­ence between an unal­tered record­ing and one that’s been edit­ed or tam­pered with in some way, but foren­sic experts are often tasked with just that respon­si­bil­i­ty.…

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Alfred workflow creation tool

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata
Alfreds
Alfreds (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk)

Upcoming Alfred 2.0 app adding Workflows, a simple visual tool for creating strings of actions
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Ver­sion 2 of pop­u­lar OS X launch­er app Alfred was announced last week, and we’re now see­ing one of the big­ger new fea­tures that’s set to come with it. Called Work­flows, it’s a set of trig­gers, actions, inputs, and out­puts that can be…

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Copyright law on the digital frontier

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Use of Google’s take­down tool for search results has grown ten­fold in the past six months, the com­pa­ny reports. When it start­ed pub­licly post­ing take­down notices in late May, around 250,000 requests a week went through the sys­tem — which…

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Visualizing aging via web app stimulates financial literacy

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly.

Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced ver­sion of your­self, you’re more like­ly to save extr…

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Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On
Ina Fried, allthingsd.com

Wire­less start-up Free­dom­Pop is announc­ing plans on Tues­day to start sell­ing an add-on that effec­tive­ly gives an iPod touch many of the capa­bil­i­ties of an iPhone.

The $99 add-on brings wire­less data capa­bil­i­ties to a third-generat…

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Why Apple maps debacle was actually a success

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple?
Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com

Last Sep­tem­ber when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amaz­ing­ly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so round­ly denounced as a step back­ward and a weak­en­ing of the iPhone envi­ron­ment that chief exec­u­t…

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Shootings stimulate mass online petitions for gun control

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control
Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com

Update: The peti­tion has reached 25,000 sig­na­tures

Almost imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the trag­ic school shoot­ing in Con­necti­cut, over 16,000 peo­ple have signed an offi­cial White House WeTheP­eo­ple peti­tion to “Imme­di­ate­ly…

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Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

 

 

A one month's supply of Sonata 10mg capsules.
A one month’s supply of Sonata 10mg capsules. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mike Epstein, mashable.com

Based on this month’s elec­tion, the idea legal­iz­ing mar­i­jua­na seems more pop­u­lar than ever. Two states, Wash­ing­ton and Col­orado, have legal­ized pot at the state level. With the legal mar­i­jua­na mar­ket look­ing stronger than ever, th…

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How to use Creative Commons visuals

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

How to Use Creative Commons Visuals on Your Site
Nina Frazier, mashable.com

Tracking down quality visuals to accompany stories and blog posts can be difficult. Luckily, there are more than 200 million free photos on the web that are available for almost anyone to use — as long as they follow the tenets of Creative Common…

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