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Tag Archives: New York Times

The Great Cyberheist. A totally fas­ci­nat­ing story about how Albert Gonzalez mis­lead the United States Secret Service and even­tu­ally stole over a hun­dred mil­lion credit cards. He was even able to hack into the point of sale devices used by stores.

February 7, 2011Albert Gonzalez, crime, cybercrime, New York Times, Secret Service

The attention-span myth

Virginia Heffernan dis­putes the tra­di­tional notion of an attention-span. Good to see some­one con­front Nicholas Carr’s notion that tech­nol­ogy causes brain dam­age. I’m sur­prised that any­one ven­tures so far into this thicket of sophistry. I get stuck much ear­lier in the equa­tion. Everyone has an… Continue read­ing →

January 6, 2011brain, learning, myths, New York Times, thinking

Making Lunch a Social Networking Game

Combining fast food with social gam­ing is fas­ci­nat­ing, par­tic­u­larly giv­ing restau­rant credit as a mea­sure of suc­cess­ful burger ideas. The Bits Blog explains 4Food: Here’s how it works: I cre­ate a burger, call it “The Bits Burger” and broad­cast it to Twitter or Facebook. Each time some­one orders… Continue read­ing →

August 14, 2010food, gaming, New York Times

I Tweet, Therefore I Am…Seriously?

The New York Times pub­lished “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” today. It is too bad because I though we were past the days of main­stream media feel­ing to need to pub­lish some­thing, any­thing about Twitter. The fun of Twitter and, I sus­pect, its draw for… Continue read­ing →

July 31, 2010journalism, New York Times, Twitter, writing

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