Journalism. Innovations. Newscurating. Terrorisme. Pentagon Set To Track Social Media. Doubt the power of social media?
The Pentagon doesn’t. A new project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency focuses on social media tracking. It’s possible you haven’t heard of The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). They are a secretive agency within the United States Department of Defense whose “mission is to maintain the technological superiority of the U.S. military and prevent technological surprise from harming our national security by sponsoring revolutionary, high-payoff research bridging the gap between fundamental discoveries and their military use.”
They are credited with everything from weapon development to ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet. It seems like DARPA would have more important things to do than track tweets, but a new project, titled the Social Media in Strategic Communication, suggests that DARPA may spend up to $42 million on a project designed to track social media.
What will the project include? “1. 2. Sites and communities. 3. First Impressions of Trove, WaPo’s News Aggregation Tool. Tuesday evening, Trove — a news aggregation tool out of WaPo Labs — opened for public beta.
Trove pulls in news from more than 10,000 different sources to give readers a diverse tasting of news based on social connections and personal topics of interest. Personalization at a new level What I like about Trove is that it gives me a taste of everything, in a way I’ve never quite seen on the web. Sign-in is currently only available through Facebook Connect (other modes of login will be available later), which allows the web application to pull your likes and interests from Facebook to establish news channels.
Generally, I would get my news from the following places: Google ReaderTwitter feedFacebook newsfeedRedditA few favorite sites Although Google Reader, Twitter and Facebook are all personalized, there are a few drawbacks to those services. US Ambassador To The UN: Protecting Patents & Copyrights More Important Than Development. The US's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Betty E.
King, recently gave a press conference in Geneva to talk about a variety of issues. What caught our attention, not surprisingly, was the discussion on intellectual property issues, which seemed to raise a lot more questions than it answered. Towards the end of her talk, she basically complained about WIPO, and how various developing countries are hijacking WIPO to focus on "development," at the expense of things like patents and copyright. She says that she, and the US government, are pro development, but not if it comes at the expense of patents and copyrights.
Of course, that makes no sense. Now long before I got here the United States has been stationing its experts around the world to help more countries be better able to apply for patents. The problem is that she doesn't seem to realize that those exceptions actually have been shown, time and time again, to improve overall development. New Fuel for Local Papers - Medical Marijuana Ads. Google TV Announces Its Programming Partners. Early Morning TV News Shows Are on the rise.