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Frank Meeuwsen

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May 17th, 11:33pm 0 comments

'What's Trending' Isn't Always What Matters - Jared Keller - Technology - The Atlantic

Crowdsourcing and curating on the churn of information pouring onto Twitter and Facebook each day can be an innovative way of storytelling but, despite the teachings of Adam Smith and his successors, crowds aren't always that wise. In the increasingly crowded online news ecosystem, voracious news consumers tend to depend more and more on media outlets not simply as sources of the news, but for a perspective, a voice and a specific brand of editorial judgment on what events matter most

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July 22nd, 2:10pm 0 comments

Researchers Warn of Geotagging Dangers - Are You Concerned?

the researchers wrote a simple script that automatically recognized when videos were recorded a certain distance away from a primary location, that being the potential victims' home addresses. When the "vacation distance," as it was called, was set to 100 KM, the script returned 106 hits revealing who was out-of-town in the test location of Berkeley, CA. After briefly perusing the results, the researchers came across a video from someone who was clearly on a Caribbean vacation and would have made an ideal victim.

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