In an age of countless digital distractions, a significant number of Americans, especially those ages 18 to 40, report they are reading more books thanks to their e-readers and tablets. A national poll of adults, conducted for USA TODAY and Bookish, a website designed to help readers discover and buy […] Read more »
Your Digital Trail, And How It Can Be Used Against You
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available to local law enforcement officers, IRS investigators, the FBI and private attorneys. And in some cases, it can be used against you. This week, NPR […] Read more »
Nielsen to Add Mobile Device Viewing to TV Ratings in Fall 2014
TV programmers frustrated that shows watched on tablets and smartphones have been invisible to Nielsen’s ratings may finally get a solution — next year. … The approach, the culmination of more than three years of work, will for the first time provide a single, consistent measure of live programming viewing […] Read more »
If Google Could Search Twitter, It Would Find Topsy
… On Wednesday, the San Francisco company announced that it has now indexed every Twitter message since the first tweet was posted in 2006 — about 425 billion pieces of content when you include photos, pages linked from Twitter, and other related material. … And the database is free for […] Read more »
What’s Lost When Everything Is Recorded
… Wearable devices like Google Glass are only a hint of what is to come — ever smaller and cheaper, and tied to inexpensive digital storage. Records of voices and events will be a permanent part of the Internet the way text is already, held forever and searched, mined and […] Read more »
I Flirt and Tweet. Follow Me at #Socialbot.
From the earliest days of the Internet, robotic programs, or bots, have been trying to pass themselves off as human. … Now come socialbots. These automated charlatans are programmed to tweet and retweet. … Researchers say this new breed of bots is being designed not just with greater sophistication but […] Read more »