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6 Common Tech Myths That Cost You Money
Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com

Ever scoff at someone for buying refurbished? Or found yourself dropping $40 on an HDMI cable? We all hear (and spread) tech myths to mostly harmless ends, but in some cases those myths end up costing you a lot of money. Here are a few of the wors…

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7 Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe (refreshingnews99.blogspot.in)
Watch: Common myths about software development – busted (thenextweb.com)
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (jobcafeinc.wordpress.com)

The Haunting Math Of America’s War On Drugs

January 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

The Haunting Math Of America’s War On Drugs [Infographic]
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

Keeping people locked up ain’t cheap.

In 2010, the U.S. spent a whopping $500 per second fighting the War on Drugs, and most people sent to prison for drug-related offenses are there for possession, not selling. The upshot? More than hal…

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13 People Who Are Dead Because Of America’s Futile War On Drugs (huffingtonpost.com)
A new day for the ‘war on drugs’ (maddowblog.msnbc.com)

Anti-Surveillance Hoodie And Scarf Prevent Drones From Tracking

January 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Anti-Surveillance Hoodie And Scarf Prevent Drones From Tracking You
By Clay Dillow, popsci.com

Or, how to accessorize in Waziristan.

The increasingly vast suite of surveillance tools available to state authorities has certainly given privacy advocates something to bristle at. In an exhibition launching this week, NYC-base…

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The Anti-Drone Hoodie (hoodieblog.com)
Stealth Wear: Drone-proof clothing line (garmentssourcing.com)
Fashion Statement: Designer Creates Line of Drone-Proof Garments to Protect Privacy (scientificamerican.com)

US cities employ precog algorithm to predict murder

January 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

US cities employ precog algorithm to predict murder
By Kim Zetter, wired.co.uk

Politics

Who needs the freaky precogs of Minority Report to predict if someone’s likely to commit murder when you have an algorithm that can do it for you?

New crime-prediction software used in Maryland and Pennsylvania, U…

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Movie Review : Minority Report (infotracking.wordpress.com)
Pushback against ‘Big Data’ begins (zdnet.com)
What’s The Secret To Great Infographics? (infographiclovers.wordpress.com)
How to Impact Future Performance (incentive-intelligence.typepad.com)
Minority Report, Morality and Muuuurrderrr (hagiographic.com)

US diplomats believe Syria dropped hallucinogenic weapon on rebels

January 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

US diplomats believe Syria dropped hallucinogenic weapon on rebels
By Noah Shachtman, wired.co.uk

Politics

The Syrian military used an exotic chemical weapon on rebels during an attack in the city of Homs, some US diplomats now believe.

That conclusion — first reported by Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin and laid out in a…

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US Vows to Prevent War in Syria If Damascus Breaks Ties with Iran (friendsofsyria.wordpress.com)

The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike

January 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

The Amazon will message authorities when loggers strike
By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk

Technology

Brazilian authorities hope to combat deforestation in the Amazon by fitting trees with wireless location devices that send out alerts if their host tree is cut down.

Invisible Tracck is a device about the size of a…

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Amazon: One of World’s Most Endangered Tribe Threatened by Illegal Settlers (counselheal.com)
Illegal loggers continue to threaten Amazonian tribe. (zedie.wordpress.com)
Illegal Loggers Threaten Fate of Brazilian Tribe in Amazon Rainforest (scienceworldreport.com)
Brazil ignores deadline to save Earth’s most threatened tribe – Survival International (aboriginalpress.wordpress.com)

Keith Ratliff, YouTube’s most famous gun lover, found dead

January 15, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Keith Ratliff, YouTube’s most famous gun lover, found dead
By Chris Welch, theverge.com

Keith Ratliff, whose gun enthusiast YouTube channel FPSRussia is among the most popular on the video site, was found dead on January 3rd — killed by a single shot to the head. Ratliff’s body was discovered in the office where he stored…

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FDA finally tries to regulate pharma social media, God Help Them

December 30, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy

FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information
pharma-mkting.com

Two days after Christmas, on December 27, 2011, while most of us were still on vacation, the FDA quietly issued “Guidance for Industry Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information About Prescription Drugs and Medical…

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Big Pharma and unfiltered speech: A dangerous prescription (features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
Drug Approvals Reach 15-Year High on Smoother FDA Reviews – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
FDA approved 39 new drugs in 2012, none from Houston (bizjournals.com)
Pharma Best Practices: in Black and White, not Shades of Gray (medmeme.com)
Social Media Guidance Countdown Continues: 576, 575, 574 . . . (druganddevicelaw.blogspot.com)
Pharma Marketing Blog: The Year 2012 in Images (slideshare.net)
Case Study: Pharma and Blogging (medmeme.com)

Why Straight Talk is the best iPhone plan for information and knowledge workers

December 29, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

Since most information and knowledge workers don’t spend nearly as much time chatting on a phone these days as managing data in other forms (email, messages, sites, social media), it increasingly makes little sense to spend the thousands of dollars a year charged by major carriers for a their phone services. Fortunately, some smaller companies are starting to under stand this and offering the iPhone via no contract, low cost, data based plans.

Cult of Mac

Family Frugal Fun Announces Frugal Living Series in 2013 (prweb.com)
How To Be Frugal (debtconsolidationusa.com)
365 Frugality Tips: Welcome to the Year of Renewed Frugality (suddenlyfrugal.com)
365 Frugality Tips: Free Exercise (suddenlyfrugal.com)
Mobile Phone Plans You Should Avoid (lifehacker.com.au)
Finding Your Personal Budget Strategy (apartmentguide.com)
A Desire for Normalcy as Sandy Hook Students Return to Class – New York Times (nytimes.com)

Case lets you film people with an iPhone laying flat (like presidential campaign fund raisers)

December 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

iPhone case allows you to take photos with phone held horizontally
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net

The MirrorCase for the iPhone lets you take photos while holding the phone flat, like an old-timey camera. It seems like a good way to shoot video of yourself, too – just set it on a table and do your thing. At $50, it’s a bit pricey. I won…

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AViiQ Releases the All New Leather iPhone 5 Wallet Case (prweb.com)
Apple iPhone 5S coming in two sizes and five colours? (mobot.net)
The Authorized iPhone 5 Battery Case is Released By Shenzhen Esorun… (prweb.com)

Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

December 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Security & Privacy

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Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

In “Credibility ranking of tweets during high impact events,” a paper published in the ACM’s Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Institute of Information…

Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency

Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency (boingboing.net)
Predicting the Credibility of Disaster Tweets Automatically (irevolution.net)
Automatically Ranking the Credibility of Tweets During Major Events (irevolution.net)
Can Twitter Predict Your Favorite Book? (huffingtonpost.com)
Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine (news.slashdot.org)

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