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EERIE, IN - Would a zombie apocalypse that started, say, in Eerie, Indiana soon spread to the rest of the world via social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ among others? Most likely, which raises some interesting questions. By now, you have probably heard about the man killed in Miami, Florida over the weekend - the one who was chewing another man's face. He was found naked, growling, and . Sorry to have to give you that visual but this actually happened.
Zombie Apocalypse, Bath Salts, Social Media and More | Muncie Free Press
As the law stands now, employers in Ohio have the legal right to require applicants to turn over passwords to Facebook, Twitter and other websites. Democratic Senator Charleta Tavares of Columbus has introduced legislation that would ban employers from requesting that information. Bob Mercer of the Muskingum County Opportunity Center said it's a quick and easy way for employers to screen candidates.
Employers Can Ask For Social Media Passwords | WHIZ News
Des Viranna is the Sydney-based general manager for customer intelligence at SAS Australia and New Zealand. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. The world has reached the point where billions of digital comments are posted daily on public web forums, blogs and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. In March 2012, Twitter announced that it had 140 million active users, sending 340 million tweets per day, amounting to an exponential volume of ‘letters’ – 140 characters at a time – sent worldwide. Despite these millions of words communicated in text conversation daily, it is possible to analyse words and phrases to provide a thorough understanding of the hot topics of discussion, as well as society’s sentiment, from all around the world.
What do your online conversations really say?
Kiwis object to social media using facial recognition - Latest National News - Keep up with Newstalk ZB
New Zealanders have given a big thumbs down to social media websites such as Facebook using facial recognition technology to identify and tag photos.
WASHINGTON – The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of websites used to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor.
Propaganda firm owner ran smear campaign against USA TODAY journalists
Twitter: Changing the World 140 Characters at a Time
With its recent blackout in Pakistan, the micro blogging enigma known as Twitter has become a global social force with powers all its own. Not only does Twitter have the power to affect government bureaucracies, it has helped facilitate their destruction as seen in the Arab Spring . Our politics, as well as our culture, are now going to function with Internet social media in mind. One could say that there is nothing new about “social” media today, and that all media forms throughout human history have performed social interactions in some way. Indeed that view is compelling, but with so many millions of users with such a wide range of content sharing, one cannot help but to wonder how Twitter factors into what sociologist Emile Durkheim called, “collective consciousness”.
NEW YORK – On the second and last day of the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Conference in New York this past week, Jessie Gruman, president of the Center of Advancing Health, took the stage to present an honest and point-blank keynote on what she, and a majority of patients, ultimately want to see from an organization's social media efforts. "I speak as someone who's been diagnosed four times with cancer," she said. "I'm a frequent user of healthcare, and I draw on my experiences to inform my own work … many of us personally know healthcare is a delicate balance between the cognitive and emotional, the subjective with objective and individuals with populations. Websites are an ever-changing puzzle, and as we become more familiar with looking for health things online … social media makes this puzzle less puzzling for us." Gruman outlines six things patients want from social media . 1.
6 things patients want from social media
Judges told to keep jurors off Facebook and Twitter
In the state’s first decision involving juries and social media, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has called on judges to better police jurors’ use of the Internet to make sure they do not discuss cases online, and thus risk a mistrial. The court said judges need to do more to explain to jurors that refraining from conversations about a case also means not posting anything about it on Facebook or Twitter, common practice in today’s technology-driven world. “Jurors must separate and insulate their jury service from their digital lives,’’ the court said in a ruling involving a Plymouth Superior Court case in which several jurors made comments on Facebook during a trial.
Former CIA analyst: U.S. media prevents justice in Mideast « Covert History
Longtime former CIA analyst Ray McGovern worked 27 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, providing daily reports to some the U.S.’ top leaders, serving as an analyst from the John F. Kennedy administration through the George H.W. Bush administration.
Mobile tools for protests -- then and now - CNN.com
Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com , explores how people communicate in the online age. (CNN) -- As Occupy Wall Street demonstrations spread to cities across the U.S., protesters, bystanders and interested people almost everywhere are using mobile devices to share and follow events on the ground.Being connected has never been as easy and accessible as it is today. As soon as the internet became ubiquitous, faster, and increasingly accessible, we were able to communicate with people from all over the world. And thus social media was born.
Ever increasing circles: Where travel's social media revolution goes next - Travolution.co.uk
Social Media Not All It's Cracked Up to Be Friday's Washington Post featured an editorial by Ramesh Srinivasan, assistant professor of information studies at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, outlining five common myths about the use of social media during political and social movements. Gastric Surgery Has Pros and Cons Dr. Amir Mehran, associate clinical professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was interviewed Saturday on NPR's “ Weekend Edition ” about the benefits and potential drawbacks of various gastric surgeries for severely obese patients. Obama Seeks to Energize Base for 2012
Headlines October 3, 2011 / UCLA Newsroom
Social Media and SEO | Business 2 Community
I read a great blog post recently explaining that as a business, and whether you like it or not, your website is NOT the same as your Internet presence. To see the truth of this, just google any major brand and see what proportion of those links are to the company’s main website. Depending on the brand, their own site may not even make the top spot. But even if it does, below that will be a big cluster of other “stuff” which customers, and potential customers, will read – and all of which can potentially impact on the perception of that company. Some of that “stuff” will be the company being represented on websites that they can control – they can choose to claim their own presence there and add to it. Most of the sites that show up, though, will be social in some form or another, and usually any company can choose to actively develop a profile.LONDON — Online dating scams may have hit more than 200,000 people in the United Kingdom and go largely unreported, according to a study released on Wednesday. Perpetrators target dating websites or social media, regularly posing as soldiers or models to build intimate relationships with victims and ultimately exploit them for cash, researchers at the U.K.'s Leicester and Westminster universities said. Their findings, based on a survey of more than 2,000 people by online polling site YouGov , support a prevailing theory that people fleeced by online romances do not go to police due to feelings of shame and heartbreak. Action Fraud , the reporting and advice arm for the U.K.'
Study: Online dating fraud hits 200,000 Brits - TODAY Tech - TODAY.com
That seemingly harmless tweet, status update or location check-in may be divulging more than you realize. As workers put more information about their professional and personal lives on social media networks, employers are at greater risk of competitors gathering intelligence on their business.
Social Media Spying News - Bloomberg
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