So, a couple of interesting insights from tracking the comments. One, this fast becomes a conversation about Republicans versus Democrats even among tech bloggers. Two, it also becomes iPhone versus Android. Three, it become old versus young. This is about analog thinkers versus digital thinkers as we watch the new SmartPower era further unfold. We see divisiveness rule even among those who think themselves open-source and open-minded. An insider today told us that Gringrich probably used this as a ploy simply to dominate today's conversation. If so, at what price does it come, for those who are the influencers use it to further divide and separate. And the action still reflects on the GOP brand in the public's mind overall whether the party sees it that way or not. Watch for greater debate about who's in, who's out, and the criteria used to measure it. Those who think they may be manipulating conversation just may find themselves a bit surprised when they see the cultural ripples as a result of value exchange within the digital arena. The days are fast-changing where there is a benefit in just being on the lips of people for the lipsake since so very many people are questioning more deeply, connecting more dots and exchanging sentiment faster and wider than ever before. You listening, Washington?
In what most be one of the more comical tech-related news pieces of the day, the Newt Gingrich call for re-naming the magical device known as the cell phone has the comment arena hopping. Earlier today the politico released a video via YouTube suggesting that viewers re-name the cell phone given the fact that the hand-held computing device enables us to do so much more than just talk. The media has had a field day poking fun at the 69 year old, but let's see what vote the court of public opinion gives him...
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Could it be that Mr. Gingrich does not care for the term "Smart Phone", or is this just another Liberal attempt to embarass another Republican? (Response) Republicans are an embarrassment.They need no help from liberals
Source: www.techcrunch.com
Could it be that Mr. Gingrich does not care for the term "Smart Phone", or is this just another Liberal attempt to embarass another Republican? (Response) Republicans are an embarrassment.They need no help from liberals
Source: www.techcrunch.com
Look at what's happening here. Overwhelmingly, across the tech blogs, feathers are a bit ruffled and support still given to Google Glass. Close and protect the ranks! There is a bit of sensitivity because not only is the product being ridiculed but also the disconnect that tech journalists often demonstrate when it comes to reviewing something in terms of the average Joe. The comments under the articles posted by the more general consumer outlets show, for the most part, an identification with the absurdity demonstrated by the parody. As tech takes a greater and greater position in our society, how will we deal with divide in both expectations, values and more? Why does it exist? What does it say about us as a culture? Interesting how a little skit can make us face ourselves in such a bare manner. Looks like we can see even more as a result of Google Glass, huh?
Comments abound regarding the "Saturday Night Live" parody on the upcoming Google Glass product. The show's infamous "Weekend Update" segment features a would-be tech reporter who reviews Google Glass during their news segment only to find repeated bugs and awkward movements yet still reports that the product is amazing. For any of us who have ever been frustrated with a new tech gadget, the product errors are dead on. Let's look at what the technorati and others have to say about the piece!
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...I cringed through this entire video; it’s one thing to make fun of flaws but it’s just sad when you make up things about a device just so you can make fun of it. Hopefully this doesn’t turn people off to Glass but I’m guessing it will.
Source: www.theverge.com
one of the funner SNL moments in quite some time. "reboot, reboot", "Italian, Italian". Oh no I just changed the language settings!...
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
...I cringed through this entire video; it’s one thing to make fun of flaws but it’s just sad when you make up things about a device just so you can make fun of it. Hopefully this doesn’t turn people off to Glass but I’m guessing it will.
Source: www.theverge.com
While comments are varied here, it seems that a recurrent theme is that of "no special treatment." Interesting that this can reflect the opinion of so many given what these veterans have witnessed and experienced! But this is not unlike much of the sentiment in tech where a false meritocracy seems to rule. Now that is extended even to veterans, according to much of the popular opinion. We'll be watching to track this and see if and how goals are met by the White House.
Buzz in the tech world turns today to First Lady Michelle Obama announcing the launch of the IT Training and Certification Partnership. It is a new public-private program that address one of the issues that can prevent our troops from gaining employment in the private sector: Active military personnel typically do not have the industry-recognized certifications that reflect the IT skills and expertise they gained through their military service. This announcement is the second major partnership developed through the Military Credentialing and Licensing Task Force, which was established last June by the Department of Defense at President Obama’s direction. The new Partnership will provide opportunities for up to 161,000 service members to gain industry-recognized, nationally portable certifications necessary for 12 high-demand technology professions, including computer programmers, quality assurance engineers, and IT security analysts. The targeted professions are expected to generate more than 1.8 million job opportunities by 2020, and have an average annual salary of more than $81,000. What say about this, Technorati?
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Meanwhile, her husband keeps upping the fees that retired veterans pay for healthcare as well as the taxes they pay on their pensions. They have no use for the military and by showing "concern", it's a smoke screen that they hope you don't notice...
Source: http://thehill.com
What is maybe most interesting is that the comments really range from opinion and observation regarding the markets to speculation on Syria and Obama to some about the tech elements. Funny that as of this analysis, Twitter is now working on two-party authentication. But isn't it more than that. If it's not Twitter, then some other platform will pop up. Or some other means. This is a band-aid to the a larger challenge about handling news during a period of great social change where it's all about bottom-up, rather than top down. What does this mean for trust, transparency, needs? As tech collides with all this social turbulence, we're going to be in for more bumpy rides than any authentication could ever placate. Further, it's all reactionary rather than proactive, and that's never a good place to be, right? Anyway, we see the sentiment behind the variety of comments truly indicating the greater questions and concerns people have about the markets and more. Notice how analysis of why, alludes the financial press, only the occurence and the aftermath. But viewers are must more astute and curious. Is it any wonder that these take-overs are occuring when people want to, for better or worse, self-determine more and more. Whew. In the meantime, we'd hate to be developers at Twitter right now. Talk about all niters!
Welcome to the new world of news where hoaxes, inaccuracies and hi-jacks live alongside with the truth. This has not been missed on anyone in the public sphere, and they've had much to say about it. Latest incident is obviously The Associated Press’s Twitter feed being hacked earlier this week. A false message was tweeted to its 1.9 million followers, “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured” - causing the financial markets to briefly noise drive briefly by over 140 points. Shortly after the tweet was sent out, the AP informed its wire subscribers that its Twitter account “has been hacked. The tweet about an attack at the White House is false. We will advise more as soon as possible.” The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for hacking the AP’s account, tweeting on Tuesday, “Ops! @AP get owned by Syrian Electronic Army! #SEA #Syria #ByeByeObama,” and writing on its website that “SEA published a false news about an explosion in the whitehouse and Obama got injured This small tweet created some chaos in the United States in addition to a decline in some U.S. stocks.” The group, which supports the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has also claimed responsibility for hacking CBS News and NPR Twitter accounts in the last week. What a week! To the comment-sphere to get more context on all!
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Am I the only one that is a little leery of how easy it actually is to manipulate markets anymore?
Source: http://arstechnica.com
... In this particular case, evidence is pointing to spear phishing of the organization. Phishing has a nearly 100% success rate in getting a foothold into a corporate network and it could, if well-executed, get around many forms of two-factor auth (think fake login pages asking for your RSA token's current value) - so I don't think it's fair to blame Twitter itself in any case...
Source: http://news.cnet.com
Am I the only one that is a little leery of how easy it actually is to manipulate markets anymore?
Source: http://arstechnica.com
What we are seeing here is clearly debate regarding seemingly "invasive" technology such as this, its benefits and drawbacks. As more situations like this take place in our world (and, unfortunately, they probably will), the issue of security versus privacy as it intersects with technology will heat up to a firery temperature. Many values and considerations will be exchanged more expansively in the digital comment arena, rather than quick social media posts. It will be the place to watch. Buzz words will include "competence", "trust" and "integrity," when discussing these matters! Stay tuned. Keeping Boston in our thoughts as all this gets sorted out...
Naturally, commenters have much to say about the Boston bombing and captured suspects, but certainly the tech utilitzed in the manhunt has been of particular interest. Facial Recognition is a growing technology tool law enforcement agencies have been using to track suspects during crime investigations. In addition to reaching out to the public to ask for help to identify the Boston bombing suspects, the FBI also used facial recognition technology to try and trace the suspects' identities. The technology uses digital images of a person to match their identity within just a few minutes. While facial recognition technology has high-accuracy when used to match a clear image of a person with another passport-style photo, the current concern it is not as effective when used with low-quality images like the ones the FBI released on Thursday. The standard for facial recognition to be accurate requires 90 pixels of resolution between the two eyes of the pictured person. The pictures the FBI released of the suspects were about 12 pixels between the two eyes. Given the Boston incident, there is now high interest in perfecting this technology for fear of other similar future incidents. Let's see what the technorati has to say about it all...
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Yeah, facial recognition, my eye... It is frightening to me that our government, run by human beings with human weaknesses, has this kind of reach into our lives!
Source: www.bloombergnews.com
It would be incredibly unwise to use facial recognition in a case like this. You do not want a high profile case to try to set court precedence. When it's a crime many people want someone to be brought to justice, you do not want to get the defendant addition ways to have the conviction overturned such as the reliability of the technology used to identify him....
Source: http://news.cnet.com
Yeah, facial recognition, my eye... It is frightening to me that our government, run by human beings with human weaknesses, has this kind of reach into our lives!
Source: www.bloombergnews.com