Media
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We Are All Fetishizing
Should the backlash (by some) against the move towards e-readers and digitized literature be kept…behind closed doors? An opinion piece in the NYT is convinced that arguments-by prominent politicians, historians, librarians–that digitization cheapens the experience of reading, don’t really file…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Everyone knows China’s the place to go for fake iPhones…but now they have an entire fake Apple Store. Employers are now requiring social media background checks. Hugo Chavez is governing Venezuela via Twitter while he undergoes medical treatment in Cuba.…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Hackers really do seem to be at war with each other. Latest target: Anonplus. Meanwhile, Anonymous claims to have a huge cache of NATO data. The first track from Bjork’s new interactive album, Biophilia, is available on iPad today. Chinese…
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Tweetin, Not Twitchin
What’s in a name? For companies like twitter, a lot of potential profits and some OED support. These are the reasons we’re not jittering or twitching, which were both potential candidates for the company’s name. You can follow the trajectory…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The TSA’s days of checkin’ out your naked body are over (or so they say). Police departments nationwide are starting to use the iPhone’s biometric scanner app to ID suspects. Ooooh, a much less expensive (and quicker) DNA sequencer. A…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The FTC chairman thinks consumers should own & control their data on social networks. Yep, lookin’ at you, facebook. A lion is scheduled for release tomorrow . . . OSX Lion, that is. The FBI’s arresting a bunch of Anonymous-affiliated…
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Aggregators Always Win
Netflix, the largest video service in the world, has its own kind of customer loyalty that no other company is close to matching. It’s not only upsetting to the small neighborhood video stores, but to big companies like Apple, who…
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British Hacking Scandal Roundup
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the British phone hacking scandal is the lack of coverage in the US press. Among the US newspapers, the NY Times is the only one I can find which has done significant reporting on…
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Sandberg in Silicon Valley
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, is profiled in the New Yorker. The gender-divided executive culture in Silicon Valley is manifested in the seriously unbalanced ratio of women and men executives. This essay discusses Sandberg’s history and theorizes about…
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Phone-Hacking Scandal’s Latest
With more unraveling of the Murdoch/phone-hacking scandal, the consequences and reverberations of the case have grown extensive and increasingly grave. The latest development came to light this morning when Sean Hoare, a former employee of the News of the World,…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
There’s more information coming out on the role TV and movie studios may be playing in the Netflix price increase. It looks like Europe is experiencing the new tech bubble too, with a proliferation of tech start-up bootcamps causing some…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
One news organization has got this online advertising thing down! BBC.com is making money sooner than anyone expected. Could the post-Facebook timing of Google+ be its biggest asset? Today’s tech bandwagon: formerly Europe-only music streaming service Spotify has landed on…