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5 Things You Should Know About the FBI’s Massive New Biometric Database

5 Things You Should Know About the FBI’s Massive New Biometric Database By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet Posted on January 8, 2012, Printed on January 12, 2012 http://www.alternet.org/story/153664/5_things_you_should_know_about_the_fbi%27s_massive_new_biometric_database The FBI claims that their fingerprint database (IAFIS) is the «largest biometric database in the world,» containing records for over a hundred million people. But that’s nothing compared […]

Clive Thompson on the Instagram Effect

http://m.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/st_thompson_instagram By Clive Thompson December 27, 2011  | 12:00 pm  | Wired January 2012 When the mobile app Instagram emerged just over a year ago, I didn’t expect it to make a splash. Photo sharing is old hat (ask Flickr and Facebook), and social-media tools .. eh, they come and go. But Instagram didn’t go: […]

Is William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ the Future of Movies?

http://m.thetyee.ca/ArtsAndCulture/2012/01/06/Neuromancer-Movie Two who are turning the 1984 book into a film and game explain why now’s perfect timing. By Mark Leiren-Young, 6 Jan 2012, TheTyee.ca Neuromancer couldn’t have worked as a film 20 years ago, says director. When Neuromancer was published in 1984, William Gibson redefined the future of the future by creating the concept […]

The Average Lifespan of a Webpage

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/11/the-average-lifespan-of-a-webpage/ November 8th, 2011 by Mike Ashenfelder The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group. What is the average lifespan of webpage? Predictably, estimates vary and vary over time. A 1997 special report in Scientific American claimed 44 days. A subsequent 2001 academic study in IEEE […]

Measuring the Unmeasurable (Internet) and Why It Matters

Gurstein’s Community Informatics Mike Gurstein’s comments on enabling and empowering communities with information and communications technologies and other stuff. http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/measuring-the-unmeasurable-internet-and-why-it-matters/ Posted on September 25, 2011 I had the opportunity recently to participate in an invitational workshop sponsored by the the Organizationa for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (sometimes referred to as the “rich countries club”) […]

Life and Letters

LIFE AND LETTERS by Roger Angell JANUARY 2, 2012 by Roger Angell JANUARY 2, 2012 COMMENT LIFE AND LETTERS Christmas has flown, and mail at home this week will produce shiny bargain-sale notices, some bills and invitations, an early thank-you note for a gift, and a late Christmas card or two, but perhaps not an […]

Google Will Change Web Marketing in 2012

Harvard Bussiness Review http://m.hbr.org/12763/show/022eeadc4620ccaecb214cd033b0bee8   Posted by Brian Whalley on Thursday Dec 22nd at 4:48pm   Google is poised to completely alter how websites market themselves over the next year. While easing users into changing search results pages, Google has also designed a new method for websites to structure data so that its crawler can […]