[Link: www.cnn.com...]
Each spring, I monitor the list of commencement speakers at our nation's leading colleges and universities. Who is chosen, and who is not, tells us a lot about academia's perception of the most important voices in America.
Two of this year's most popular speakers were CNN's Fareed Zakaria, who spoke at both Harvard University and Duke University, and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who spoke at both Tulane University and the University of Washington. Perhaps one of the most original choices, and the one who certainly stood out from the rest, was U.S. Navy SEAL Eric Greitens, who addressed the 2012 graduating class of Tufts University Sunday.
It's not often that elite universities honor military service members with commencement addresses. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower once spoke to a graduating class at an Ivy League university and remarked, "Your business is to put me out of business." So I applaud Tufts University for inviting Greitens.
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[Link: www.businessinsider.com...]
Maybe this is the reason General Motors went "mental" and pulled its Facebook ad budget.
Digital marketing is confusing—really confusing—as this insane graphic shows (below).
Trying to navigate through the various new social media categories, blogs, sharing sites, and social media firms is an absolute mess.
This depiction of the digital marketing landscape was shown at a Buddy Media event marking the launch of the social marketing software agency's new suite of measurement toolsRead more: [Link: www.businessinsider.com...]
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[Link: www.thedaily.com...]
Drones aren't just flying over Afghanistan. They're taking pictures of traffic in Grand Forks, N.D., and tracking crooks in Grand Junction, Colo. And it's a pretty sure bet that unmanned aerial vehicles are either circling over your head right now, or very soon will be.
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[Link: gizmodo.com...]
Furniture designers have a general idea of what makes for comfortable furniture, thanks to years of research, intuition, and user feedback filtered down into theory. But much of this has largely been driven by qualitative feedback instead of something more quantitative. That's what the R18 Ultra chair wants to change.
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[Link: sunlightfoundation.com...]
The new cybersecurity bill, CISPA, or HR 3523, is terrible on transparency.
The bill proposes broad new information collection and sharing powers (which many other organizations are covering at length). Even as the bill proposes those powers, it proposes to limit public oversight of this work.
Read this section:
'(2) USE AND PROTECTION OF INFORMATION- Cyber threat information shared in accordance with paragraph (1)--
...'(i) shall be exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code;
That part about "section 552" is the Freedom of Information Act, being dismissed wholesale by Congress, for a whole new category of information that they don't understand, that doesn't even exist yet.
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[Link: thehackernews.com...]
FBI is struggling to combat cyberattacks by hackers. "We're not winning," FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry said. Four top government cybersecurity officials have basically come out to say America is getting her hiney kicked in cyberattacks by nation state hackers.
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[Link: dailycaller.com...]
A suspected child rapist is on the loose and in a statement obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement accepts responsibility for releasing him.
The man is identified by ICE as Amado Espinoza-Ramirez. Chicago police arrested him last August, and he was ultimately charged with forty-two counts of predatory sexual acts.
A publicly available inventory of the charges against Espinoza-Ramirez lists multiple counts of sexual relations within the family, multiple counts of sexual assault with the use of force and multiple counts of sexual assault involving a minor less than thirteen years old.
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[Link: photoblog.msnbc.msn.com...]
Just a testing from half the planned 120Kft goal altitiude....
