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Perhaps I should wait for this new model before upgrading? cnet: Report: Apple is testing the next iPhone right now

Perhaps I should wait for this new model before upgrading?

cnet:

Report: Apple is testing the next iPhone right now

Very cute! optical-chaos: How baby computers are made

Very cute!

optical-chaos:

How baby computers are made

Percolating News: Google Lets You Play Games While You Track Santa Claus

Tracking Santa goes modern with #Google

percolatingnews:

imageGoogle has proven in the last couple of years it’s very serious when it comes to tracking Santa, and this year is no exception.

Besides letting you track Santa’s whereabouts on an interactive map, Google has launched a couple of new games to keep you entertained…

Too bad we didn’t have Google Maps to track #Santa when I was a kid #BackInTheDay. #Progress seeminglee: Haha #GoogleMaps you rock! #crazyisgood #smllove :) SML2GoogleMaps: If you were single + gay I would marry you!!! = #smlidealhusbands :) / SML.20121225.SC.NET.GooglePlus.GooglePlus / #smlscreenshots #ccby #smluniverse #smlnet #smlplus / #Google #GooglePlus #Screenshots #US #technology #business #nerds #geeks #sml2google (at SML Universe Limited)

Too bad we didn’t have Google Maps to track #Santa when I was a kid #BackInTheDay. #Progress

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Haha #GoogleMaps you rock! #crazyisgood #smllove :)

SML2GoogleMaps: If you were single + gay I would marry you!!! = #smlidealhusbands :)

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/ #Google #GooglePlus #Screenshots #US #technology #business #nerds #geeks #sml2google (at SML Universe Limited)

If you’ve watched your own Twitter stream or your own hashtags, you saw stuff that was institutionally affiliated, but it was probably overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that came from individuals.

 Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, in an interview with the Baltimore Sun on meme-making and viral social media during the 2012 campaign. 

Rainie’s book, Networked, explores how digital technology has helped change the social and political life of “networked individuals” by allowing people to act in large, loosely knit social networks. In regards to the current election, Rainie gives insight on how the rise of the internet, cellphones and social media have reshaped campaigns and voter engagement with them. 

 

(via pewresearch)

What Internet Trolls Thought of Last Night’s Debate theatlantic: What Internet Trolls Thought of Last Night’s Debate There was a 22-percent increase in insulting comments during this debate vs. the debate last week. Over 7 percent of overall commentary contained some form of profanity, “astroturfing,” or spam. Comments slurring Obama exceeded those against Romney by 3 times. There was a 50-percent increase in negativity about Obama during this debate as compared to the second debate. There was a 200-percent increase in negativity about Romney during last night’s debate as compared to the second debate. The top themes provoking profanity on social media were China, oil, jobs, the military, and Iran. Read more. [Image: Shutterstock/Albert Ziganshin]

What Internet Trolls Thought of Last Night’s Debate

theatlantic:

What Internet Trolls Thought of Last Night’s Debate

  • There was a 22-percent increase in insulting comments during this debate vs. the debate last week.
  • Over 7 percent of overall commentary contained some form of profanity, “astroturfing,” or spam.
  • Comments slurring Obama exceeded those against Romney by 3 times.
  • There was a 50-percent increase in negativity about Obama during this debate as compared to the second debate.
  • There was a 200-percent increase in negativity about Romney during last night’s debate as compared to the second debate.
  • The top themes provoking profanity on social media were China, oil, jobs, the military, and Iran.

Read more. [Image: Shutterstock/Albert Ziganshin]

"The rise of digital news sources is having less of an impact on the millions of Americans who are not that interested in the news."

pewresearch:

Carroll Doherty, Associate Director of Editorial for the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, writes about the value of public knowledge in a digital age in the New York Times’ Room for Debate blog.

“Information technology today – constant news on Twitter and Facebook, streaming video on iPhones – makes 2007 seem like the Dark Ages,” writes Doherty. “But in our most recent quiz, in July, just 34 percent of Americans were able to identify John Roberts as the chief justice of the Supreme Court, from a list that included Harry Reid and the late William Rehnquist.”

Read the full article here.  Think you can do better? Test your News IQ using our interactive quiz. 

The future of mobile looks exciting! pewresearch: New “Future of Mobile News” study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism in collaboration with The Economist Group finds half of U.S. adults have access to the mobile internet, with big implications for news consumption. Now 22% own some kind of tablet computer (up from 11% a year ago) and smart phone ownership is up to 44% from 35%. Fully 64% of tablet owners and 62% of smart phone owners use the devices for news at least weekly.  68% of tablet-owning adults got their tablet in the last year, likely due to the advent of the lower-priced tablets in late 2011. Just over half (52%) report owning an iPad, compared with 81% a  year ago. Android-based devices, predominantly the Kindle Fire, make up most of the rest of the ownership. iPad owners, however, use their tablet more often in general and more often for news.  Getting news remains an important part of what people use their mobile devices for – 64% of tablet owners and 62% of smartphone owners use the devices for news at least weekly, tying news with other popular activities such as email and play ing games on tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the phone).  This means fully a third of all U.S. adults now get news on a mobile device at least once a week.  Rather than replacing old technology, the introduction of new devices and formats is creating a new kind of “multi-platform” news consumer.

The future of mobile looks exciting!

pewresearch:

New “Future of Mobile News” study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism in collaboration with The Economist Group finds half of U.S. adults have access to the mobile internet, with big implications for news consumption.

  • Now 22% own some kind of tablet computer (up from 11% a year ago) and smart phone ownership is up to 44% from 35%. Fully 64% of tablet owners and 62% of smart phone owners use the devices for news at least weekly. 
  • 68% of tablet-owning adults got their tablet in the last year, likely due to the advent of the lower-priced tablets in late 2011. Just over half (52%) report owning an iPad, compared with 81% a
     year ago. Android-based devices, predominantly the Kindle Fire, make up most of the rest of the ownership. iPad owners, however, use their tablet more often in general and more often for news. 
  • Getting news remains an important part of what people use their mobile devices for – 64% of tablet owners and 62% of smartphone owners use the devices for news at least weekly, tying news with other popular activities such as email and play
    ing games on tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the phone). 
  • This means fully a third of all U.S. adults now get news on a mobile device at least once a week. 
  • Rather than replacing old technology, the introduction of new devices and formats is creating a new kind of “multi-platform” news consumer.
The internet has already replaced TV as the most important source of information! #TRUTH theatlantic: Why the Internet Is About to Replace TV as the Most Important Source of News The headline conclusion of Pew’s latest monster survey of the media landscape was the demise of TV news. “There are now signs that television news is increasingly vulnerable,” the authors wrote, “as it may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers.” But the larger story is the rise of the Web, which has surpassed newspapers and radio to become the second most popular source of news for Americans, after TV.  Read more. [Image: Pew]

The internet has already replaced TV as the most important source of information! #TRUTH

theatlantic:

Why the Internet Is About to Replace TV as the Most Important Source of News

The headline conclusion of Pew’s latest monster survey of the media landscape was the demise of TV news. “There are now signs that television news is increasingly vulnerable,” the authors wrote, “as it may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers.”

But the larger story is the rise of the Web, which has surpassed newspapers and radio to become the second most popular source of news for Americans, after TV. 

Read more. [Image: Pew]

poptech:

New Yorkers! Join our executive director Andrew Zolli, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell (PopTech 2008), and Radiolab host Jad Abumrad (PopTech 2010) for a discussion about resilience, the emerging field of study explored in Zolli’s new book, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back at BAM on September 18th.