Tech insurgents replace “disrupters”

Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat
The Editors, betabeat.com

Just don’t call them dis­rupters.

By 11/14 11:30am

Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twit­ter and Square, recent­ly tried to dis­abuse the tech indus­try of its infat­u­a­tion with the word ‘disruption.’ “We don’t want ‘disruption,’ where we just move…

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Expereal will visualize and analyze your life in real time

Expereal: iPhone app to rate/analyze your life via data visualization
Jonathan Cohen, boingboing.net

Expe­re­al is a free iPhone app devel­oped to help peo­ple bet­ter under­stand them­selves, to feel even more con­nect­ed to the world, and to, hope­ful­ly, make more informed deci­sions about their lives. The mar­ket­place has social media…

RT @BoingBoing: Expereal: iPhone app to rate/analyze your life via data visualization http://flip.it/Cyt1r http://flip.it/LErxg

How information science empowered Obama’s reelection

When the Nerds Go Marching In
James Fallows, theatlantic.com

How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama’s reelection

The Obama cam­paign’s tech­nol­o­gists were tense and tired. It was game day and every­thing was going wrong.

Josh Thay­er…

When the Nerds Go Marching In – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic http://flip.it/Msvvi http://flip.it/KjEIC

Christie flip flops after hurricane Sandy

Chris Christie listened to Rupert Murdoch’s warning, re-backed Romney – Salon.com
By David Daley, salon.com

After the Fox News chief threatened the governor on Twitter, the two men quickly talked, and Christie got on board

Rupert Mur­doch’s warn­ing tweet — telling Chris Christie in the midst of Hur­ri­cane Sandy cleanup that the New Jer­sey gov­er­no…

RT @Salon: This just in: After an ominous tweet from Murdoch, Chris Christie heeded the Fox News chief’s warning, re-backed Romney http://flip.it/thA47 http://flip.it/equob

LinkedIn and identity theft

Identity fraud more common among LinkedIn users – Salon.com
By Natasha Lennard, salon.com

The personal information openly shared on social media sites is a goldmine for fraudsters

The pro­lif­er­a­tion of per­son­al infor­ma­tion shared via social media cor­re­lates with a sig­nif­i­cant spike in instances of iden­ti­ty fraud. In 201…

RT @Salon: “A goldmine for fraudsters”: Identity fraud more common among LinkedIn users http://flip.it/hyxbM http://flip.it/EIeEM

Cory Booker goes on food stamps to show us what food insecurity feels like

Cory Booker goes on food stamps – Salon.com
By Mary Elizabeth Williams, salon.com

The Newark mayor goes on a food-stamp diet to show us what poverty tastes like

Cory Book­er is a rare and unique brand of politi­cian. Cory Book­er is a human being. Since tak­ing office in 2006, the mayor of Newark has made a name for him­self …

RT @Salon: .@CoryBooker’s food stamp challenge: NJ mayor vows to eat on a $30 budget this week http://flip.it/erDTN via @embeedub http://flip.it/bG6ax

Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery

English: An example of the "Whose Respons...
English: An example of the “Whose Responsible This?” meme, using File:Hindenberg.JPG as the background. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

S.A.P. | LOS ANGELES, economist.com

The Erkernermerst

JOHN­SON reads Red­dit from time to time. Red­dit, as the web’s most promi­nent meme hatch­ery, is an incu­ba­tor of new trends in writ­ten lan­guage. The Inter­net has changed so much of our lives, but few things have changed …

RT @TheEconomist: Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme hatchery, is an incubator of new trends in written language http://flpbd.it/HCtVs http://flpbd.it/TtciG

Language on the Internet

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