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Digital Nation (Frontline - PBS)
Documentaries on how digital life affects (mostly0 teens.
Dialogues with Colorful Personalities of Early AI
Of all the legacies of the era of the sixties, three colorful, not to say garrulous, "personalities" that emerged from the early days of artificial intelligence research are worth mentioning:
ELIZA, the Rogerian psychotherapist;
PARRY, the paranoid; and (as part of a younger generation)
RACTER, the "artificially insane" raconteur.
Cyberchondria - audio
Web Sickness
November 13, 2009
Cyberchondria refers to the practice of using Internet search engines to wrongly diagnose oneself with serious illnesses. Carolyn Butler, columnist for The Washington Post, talks about how cyberchondria came to be and she discusses her own bout with the dread disease.
Teen's Facebook update gets robbery charges dropped
A teenager accused of a robbery in New York had charges dropped after he argued that he was on Facebook and it was confirmed that a post was made from his account.
However, anyone could have made the post.
Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
Gives users the ability to see what information Google stores about them.
Is Your Facebook Profile As Private As You Think? : NPR
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Facing the (Free) Music - on the media
For 10 years, music execs have waged a war against digital file sharing -- and software like Napster and websites like The Pirate Bay -- which have decimated the industry’s profits. But recently, there are signs from Europe that the battle over free music may be changing.
Teens on Tunes
A recent Pew Internet survey found that three out of every four teenagers who download music agree with the statement, "file-sharing is so easy to do, it's unrealistic to expect people not to do it." We spent some time this week talking with high school students in Manhattan to find out what albums teenagers are listening to, and, more importantly, how they got them.
FBI director doesn't bank online
Robert Mueller head of the FBI almost got caught in a phishing scam.
Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear?
A man fakes his death to escape debts and collect life insurance, but using his digital footprint, he is found by authorities.
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