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I AM NOT ON FACEBOOK / SPYBOOK NOT INTERESTED
Facebook is now sharing your personal profile information with 3RD parties.
http://ow.ly/1Gf4X
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Facebook: Privacy Enemy Number One?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362967,00.asp
Facebook's notable announcements this week range from a holistic vision of a
seamless, semantically-enabled Web of human relationships, to a simple "Like"
button, which will soon be omnipresent on the Internet. The moves are
ambitious, giving even fast-moving rivals like Twitter reason to worry. Still,
the simple fact that gets lost in the rush towards ubiquitous social
connectivity is that Facebook users still don't know what they are sharing,
with whom, or why it matters. In short: Facebook remains a privacy minefield.
Youtube's good DMCA compromise? Content ID and Fair Use
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/
Over the past decade, the evolution of the Internet has altered the landscape
for both traditional media companies and the doctrine of fair use, and the
media industry has tried to keep up. The new ways that consumers create and
distribute content are not a niche phenomenon. Hundreds of millions of people
around the world now use the Web to connect and interact with content online,
and a huge percentage of them go even further: they express themselves via
parodies, celebrate their favorite videos with mashups, and use music in
educational presentations. The people that upload these videos are typically
the biggest fans, and are exactly the kinds of consumers rights holders should
be embracing.
Half of all primary teachers will boycott Sats tests, union leader warns
England http://ow.ly/1GehW
NPR Interview Podcast - Can The iPad Or The Kindle Save Book Publishers?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13
This is a podcast of yesterday's NPR Fresh Air show, where host Terry Gross
interviewed the author of the recent New Yorker article, "Publish or Perish:
Can the iPad Topple the Kindle, and Save the Book Business?"
http://tinyurl.com/2djgksu
Gutenberg 2.0: Harvard?s libraries deal with disruptive change by Jonathan Shaw
http://bit.ly/c4m1cy
An excerpt:
"Increasingly, in the scientific disciplines, information ranging from online
journals to databases must be recent to be relevant, so Widener's collection of
books, its miles of stacks, can appear museum-like. Likewise, Google's massive
project to digitize all the books in the world will, by some accounts, cause
research libraries to fade to irrelevance as mere warehouses for printed
material. The skills that librarians have traditionally possessed seem devalued
by the power of online search, and less sexy than a Google query launched from
a mobile platform."
Libraries and Popular Culture
Here's the Daily News article: http://bit.ly/bqXokE
"American Libraries" and "Booklist" columnist Will Manley was recently featured
in the New York Daily News for a 1992 humor column he wrote for the "Wilson
Library Bulletin" about librarians and sex. This column got him fired from the
WLB. The Daily News headline reads: "'Lost' librarian survey reveals 1-in-5
have gotten intimate in the stacks".
And here's Will Manley's interesting take on his recent 15 minutes of fame.
Four entries from his blog. The first entry is the most recent, and is a recap
of the whole experience. The others chronicle how it all unfolded...a good read.
http://bit.ly/cTXHrL
http://bit.ly/azXBDB
http://bit.ly/b68oOH
http://bit.ly/cM7JSP
FBI: Finding criminal data on cell phones and game consoles is tough
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/042310-fbi-cell-phones-game-consoles.html
McAfee apologizes for antivirus update disaster
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20003247-83.html
McAfee to compensate home users for bad update
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20003399-83.html
Malaysia in 'top 10 Asia Pacific countries for phishing and bot-infected
computers'
http://www.mis-asia.com/news/articles/malaysia-in-top-10-asia-pacific-countries-for-phishing-and-bot-infected-computers
Bill Would Extend DMCA-Style Takedowns To 'Personal Info' [not good]
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100426/0034189166.shtml
There are certainly concerns from many people about the fact that it's
difficult to get certain information to go away online. Hell, there's an entire
industry built around the idea of trying to either remove or hide any "bad
info" about you online. However, it looks like there's a new bill in Congress
that would be a disaster for free speech and would have incredible unintended
consequences. It's an attempt to extend DMCA-style takedowns for any "personal
info" posted online. This comes just as more people are recognizing that such
takedowns have a high likelihood of being unconstitutional. In this case, the
so-called "Cyber Privacy Act" would require any website that allows open
posting of content to provide "a means for individuals whose personal
information it contains to request the removal of such information" and would
then be required to "promptly remove the personal information of any individual
who requests its removal."
STOP USING POWERPOINTLESS
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
http://ow.ly/1GfwN
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in
Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant
to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a
bowl of spaghetti. ?When we understand that slide, we?ll have won the war,?
General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room
erupted in laughter.
Definition of HFT - High Frequency Trading
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/AboutUs/About-Money.html
Market commentators are fond of talking about ?free market capitalism,? but
according to Wall Street commentator Max Keiser, it is no more. It has morphed
into what his TV co-host Stacy Herbert calls ?rigged market capitalism?: all
markets today are subject to manipulation for private gain.
Keiser isn?t just speculating about this. He claims to have invented one of the
most widely used programs for doing the rigging. Not that that?s what he meant
to invent. His patented program was designed to take the manipulation out of
markets. It would do this by matching buyers with sellers automatically,
eliminating ?front running? brokers buying or selling ahead of large orders
coming in from their clients. The computer program was intended to remove the
conflict of interest that exists when brokers who match buyers with sellers are
also selling from their own accounts. But the program fell into the wrong hands
and became the prototype for automated trading programs that actually
facilitate front running.
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