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LinkedIn and identity theft
Identity fraud more common among LinkedIn users - Salon.com By Natasha Lennard, salon.com The personal information openly shared on social media sites is a goldmine for fraudsters The proliferation of personal information shared via social media correlates with a significant spike in instances of identity fraud. In 201… RT @Salon: “A goldmine for fraudsters”: Identity … Continue reading LinkedIn and identity theft
Culturomics: hard + soft science using the Ngram viewer
I’ve been playing around with the new Google N Gram viewer and the emerging field of culturomics, the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture. It’s interesting to see that Timothy was more common in 1920 and that information has grown faster than knowledge In 500 Billion Words, a New … Continue reading Culturomics: hard + soft science using the Ngram viewer
Google NGram viewer taps 500 billion words to uncover cultural trends
In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture - NYTimes.com. Related articles Are words the atomic unit of a dynamic system? (sappingattention.blogspot.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) Google Labs' NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com) … Continue reading Google NGram viewer taps 500 billion words to uncover cultural trends
TVTropes: The Linguistic Science of Television
TV like all other forms of primate communication is subject to analysis by behavioral science and, in this case, linguistics shows that almost all television consists of handful of stories recycled again and again.... Scott Brown on the Building Blocks of Prime Time | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Applied Linguistics and its Role … Continue reading TVTropes: The Linguistic Science of Television
Latest US news, world news, sport and comment from the Guardian
Latest US news, world news, sport and comment from the Guardian | guardiannews.com | The Guardian. Sometimes getting the best news about your country's politics involves turning to sources outside of its borders. Published since 1821, The Guardian (formerly The Manchester Guardian) has become one of the most celebrated English-language papers Related articles 'Guardian' sparks … Continue reading Latest US news, world news, sport and comment from the Guardian
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