Advocacy groups call on Twitter to restore API access to Politiwoops Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman A collection of advocacy groups from around the world on Friday released anopen letter to Twitter, calling on the company to restore API access to Politiwoops, a site that archived politicians’ deleted tweets. RELATED ARTICLE A eulogy for Politwoops, … Read more
Anonymity, Ethnography, and Alice Goffman: Welcome, journalists Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology I think I’ve written and thrown away three separate posts on the Alice Goffman debatetrying to find something to say that people will find interesting. I personally don’t find the case to be very interesting, or to speak to core issues of what ethnography is … Read more
Chromebooks: The Mobile Cloud Computing Catalyst social media vb by David H Deans While Microsoft and Intel were busy planning the introduction of a high-price Ultrabook PC concept — which was focused on vendor needs for higher profit margins — Google was working on developing a low-price Chromebook model that was targeted at an under-served market. How to Fake your Location in Google … Read more
10 Reasons Why Millennials Follow Brands on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest All Facebook by Shea Bennett A new study has identified ten distinct reasons why millennial social media users follower brands on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. And the top reason varies from platform to platform. Youtube ditches Flash, but it hardly matters Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow … Read more
Turkey’s Koc calls on Erdogan to address graft charges to lower tensions Mustafa Koc, chairman of Turkey’s biggest company Koc Holding, on Sunday called on the government to calm financial markets worried about a corruption inquiry and denied he has sought to undermine Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. In a rare interview, Koc also told … Read more
Anthropologist Genevieve Bell leads a team at Intel’s Santa Clara, Calif. campus, attempting to forecast future uses for the company’s chips. On Tuesday morning, Oct. 29, 2013, Bell explained how a whimsical robotic kiwi the “Data Monster” visualizes internet-based data sets. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) ( Karl Mondon ) Intel’s anthropologist helps chipmaker prepare … Read more
Intel?s Anthropologist Genevieve Bell Questions the Smart Watch Genevieve Bell, director of Intel?s user experience research, says companies building wearable computers haven?t figured out why people might want them. Anthropology: Growth and Relevance, Not Popularity Anthropologists can suffer from Jared Diamond envy. Here in the United States we bemoan when Diamond?s latest book … Read more
Intel’s cultural anthropologist CNN By Michael V. Copeland FORTUNE — About 40 Ph.D. studentsin computer science, potential recruits for chip-giant Intel, have just finished listening to a lecture on the intricacies of circuit design and processor architecture at one of the company’s R&D centers just outside Portland, Ore. The conversation is complex, detailed, and very … Read more