Tag Archives: information

Are businesses with an agenda a wave of the future?

Mint.com Cites Racist Website in Anti-Immigrant Post – National – The Atlantic. Mint.com’s blog put up a post citing all kinds of information that would make you think the business really has some issues with immigration. One reaction is the … Continue reading

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Recommendations from ethnographic report on addressing the failures of one-way, bombardment-oriented advertising

The Associated Press, Context-Based Research Group and Carton Donofrio Partners investigated what online information devourers think of advertisements. This study builds off and references a previous one (pdf here) about news consumption. The main problem they’re addressing is the atomization … Continue reading

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Twittering stapler reveals loud future of passive and automatic information sharing

It’s quaint to burn a few seconds on your keyboard to issue pithy reports of what you’re up to, but in the future, straight-forward announcements of activities will be taken over by enhanced machines, like the Twittering stapler, that churn … Continue reading

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Link: Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors’ blog: Software tells Bloggers What Readers Want

Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors’ blog: Software tells Bloggers What Readers Want Any information on the quality of the question, or is beauty always in the eye of the beholder?

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In shift to virtual life, profit lacks purpose

With a steady flow of information highlighting the news industry’s woes, I couldn’t help but begin to wonder about the Internet’s transformation of the larger economic and cultural structures in which businesses, people and, oh, everything else, operate. In the … Continue reading

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