Tag Archive | media
Why Hackers are Targeting Hollywood
How Digital Insurgents Are Disrupting Film Aaron Swartz‘s ‘fundamental opponents were the perverse influences behind today’s copyright laws.’ ‘…Hollywood, the principal patron behind SOPA/PIPA, was first formed more than a century ago because a few rogue artists wanted to get as far away as possible from the constraining influence of Edison’s patents. Dearest Hollywood, the […]
Your Shopping Confirmation Bias
It Causes You to Waste Money on Things You Don’t Need ‘Confirmation bias is one of the worst biases we have. You believe your opinion is based on years of objective analysis, right? In reality, your opinion is nothing more than the a collection of information you choose to pay attention to. Confirmation bias is […]
Royal Hoax Nurse Found Dead
DJs in Royal Hoax Taken Off Air Did she commit suicide? Should the DJs involved be liable? ‘The Australian radio presenters who made a prank call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge three days before the nurse who handled the call apparently killed herself have been taken off the air until further notice. […]
Sandy’s Wikipedia Page and Content Forging
Apparently, the Wikipedia scandal last September (Corruption in Wikipedia Confirmed by pochp) didn’t blow but here’s a new one ‘Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He’s also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change…’ […]
NU Study Explodes the Myth of Attention Crisis
Internet-Based Information Overload? ‘…But now, there’s proof that all this worry about information overload, message meltdown and attention crash is overinflated hyperventilating. A study out of Northwestern University finds that “very few Americans feel bogged down or overwhelmed by the volume of news and information at their fingertips and on their screens.” ‘Published in the […]
Stupid COMELEC of the Philippines
From ABS-CBN tweets: Hindi maaaring bumoto ang hindi rehistrado. Rehistrado ka na ba? http://bit.ly/P2VzRT #BMPMTayoNa #Halalan2013 @bayanmo Why is ABS-CBN stupidly and continuously promoting the next elections when it should be telling the COMELEC to clean up? My answer to the news outlet: ‘Why would I register when I know that my name would just […]
Amazing Photos from Olympics Opening
See GIFs and Photos here: http://storify.com/storify/amazing-gifs-and-photos-from-olympics-opening-cere Universal Olympian Wants Brit Asylum Runner who does not represent any country is seeking political asylum in London ‘Before the opening ceremony, before a drop of sweat was shed by any of the nearly 15,000 Olympic and Paralympic athletes from 206 nations, an African runner walked into a police […]
Your Cell Phone Knows your Every Move
Here’s a scary example of how much your mobile knows about you. ‘The results were astounding. In a six-month period — from Aug 31, 2009, to Feb. 28, 2010, Deutsche Telekom had recorded and saved his longitude and latitude coordinates more than 35,000 times. It traced him from a train on the way to Erlangen at the […]
How Muslim US Soldiers Will Suffer More Conflicts Now -updated -edited
I think my question: ‘How much effort did the US military make to prevent prejudice on their Muslim brothers-in-arms?’ was somewhat answered here: ‘Media coverage of the Fort Hood killings has been factually challenged and quick to jump to conclusions about terrorism and political correctness, but the underlying problem is much bigger, Mark Benjamin argues. […]
