Some lunchtime reading:
Facebook Live Events Could Command A Truly Global Audience – Wired – “With its massive reach, Facebook could attract a truly global live audience that it could serve up to advertisers seeking to connect with the whole world.”
You Don’t Have to ‘Like’ the News to Respect It – Bloomberg View –
The website Real Clear Science did something remarkable this week: It disclosed the political biases of its regular contributors. The effort did not involve self-identification. Instead, each contributor took a “political quiz,” and the site posted the results…
What’s interesting about the disclosure isn’t where the biases lie. (Unsurprisingly for a tech site, the contributors skew libertarian.) What’s interesting is that the editors felt a need to come up with a creative response to the growing perception that news and analysis are always slanted.
Google and the “Right to be forgotten: Swiss cheese internet, or database of ruin?” – The Guardian and TechDirt – “Last week, Techdirt wrote about Google’s refusal to comply with France’s order to apply the “right to be forgotten” — actually, a right to be removed from search results — globally. Perhaps because the issue seems easy to understand, many have offered their opinions on the rights and wrongs of Google’s move, both for and against.”
The Internet of Things and the Future of Farming – New York Times – “In the United States, major agriculture companies are making sizable investments to position themselves for data-driven farming. …Yet the most intriguing use of the technology may well be outside the United States. … To close the food gap, worldwide farm productivity will have to increase from 1.5 tons of grain per acre to 2.5 tons by 2050.”
Google-Style Office Perks Go Mainstream – WSJ – “As companies try to put themselves on a path to faster growth, some are mimicking the workplace practices—and lavish perks—at technology behemoths like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.”
Science vs science: Is modern science broken? – RealClearScience/ABC – “… results not getting reproduced isn’t a sign that science is broken. This is the process in action. It does highlight, however, that science does not abide by a 24 hour media cycle.”
Homeland Security: Hobbyist-sized drones are the latest terrorism threats – ArsTechnica
The Dawning of High Mobility- RealClearTechnology via TechPinions – “…the time spent, in hours, on smartphones is continuing to increase while the time spent with PCs is either flat or in some cases declining.1. This emphasizes another observation being floated that the PC is increasingly becoming just a work/productivity device. The follow-up comment to this one is how the number of people who need a PC to do work is significantly smaller than those who don’t.”
NY Fines on Small Businesses Drop Sharply – WSJ – “New York City slashed the total amount of fines to small businesses by more than half in fiscal 2015…”
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