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The Microsoft data loss of 2009 resulted in an estimated 800,000 smartphone users in the United States losing personal data, such as emails, address books and photos from their mobile handsets. The computer servers holding the data were run by Microsoft.[1] The brand of phone affected was the Danger Hiptop, also known as the "Sidekick", and were connected via the T-Mobile cellular network. At the time, it was described as the biggest disaster to affect the concept of cloud computing.[2]



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The Sidekick smartphones were originally produced by Danger, Inc., a company that was bought by Microsoft in February 2007. After the acquisition, the former Danger staff were then absorbed into the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft, where they worked on a future Microsoft mobile phone platform known as Project Pink.[3] However, most of the ex-Danger employees soon left Microsoft to pursue other things.[4] Microsoft took over the running of the data servers, and its data centers were hosting the customers' data at the time it was lost.[5]

In late September 2009, T-Mobile Sidekick phone users started noticing data service outages occurring. The outages lasted approximately two weeks, and on 10 October, 2009, T-Mobile announced that personal information stored on Sidekick phones would be permanently lost

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Who are we as Americans? What is our deep identity? How do we make a good life? Renowned psychologist Dan P. McAdams suggests that the key to American identity lies in the stories we live by. And the most powerful life story in America today is the story of redemption. On a broad societal scale and in our own private lives, we want first and foremost to transform our suffering into a positive emotional state, to move from pain and peril to redemption. American identity is the redemptive self.

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A credence good is a term used in economics for a good whose utility impact is difficult or impossible for the consumer to ascertain. In contrast to experience goods, the utility gain or loss of credence goods is difficult to measure after consumption as well. The seller of the good knows the utility impact of the good, creating a situation of asymmetric information. Examples of credence goods include;

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Data Smog is a 1997 book by journalist David Shenk and published by Harper Collins. It deals with the author's idea of how the information technology revolution would shape the world at large and how the incredible amount of data available on the Internet would make it more difficult for the average individual to sift through and separate fact from fiction.

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Cathy Marshall is a Senior Researcher in MSR's Silicon Valley Lab. She is currently working on Community Information Management applications and issues associated with personal digital archiving.

Cathy's research falls roughly under the rubric of personal information management and lies in the disciplinary interstices of computer science, information science, and the humanities. Her interests include digital archiving and long-term retrieval; how people use and share encountered information; how people read, annotate, navigate through, and interact with ebooks and other electronic publications like e-magazines and e-newspapers; and spatial hypertext. She holds provocative views on topics like the Semantic Web and social tagging.

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The Chinese government has offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (£888) to internet users who report websites that feature pornography.

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In comparison to controls, participants with compulsive hoarding recalled less information on delayed recall of the RCFT and CVLT and used less effective organizational strategies on the RCFT but not the CVLT. Hoarders also reported significantly less confidence in their memory, more catastrophic assessments of the consequences of forgetting, and a stronger desire to keep possessions in sight. Results provide initial evidence of learning and memory impairment and poor memory confidence in subjects with compulsive hoarding.

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Like other parental debates — whether to spank or when to let children travel alone — the issue tends to divide parents into two familiar camps: the vigilant and the laissez-faire. Some parents want to protect their children from what is unlikely but still tragically possible. Others say children will do best when learning to live with the realities of the Web.

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privacy socialnetworks

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Knowledge spillover is an exchange of ideas among individuals.[1] In knowledge management economics, a knowledge spillover is a non-rival knowledge market externality that has a spillover effect of stimulating technological improvements in a neighbor through one's own innovation.[1][2] A knowledge spillover is an internal knowledge spillover if there is a positive impact of knowledge between individuals within an organization that produces goods and/or services.[1] A knowledge spillover is an external knowledge spillover if there is a positive impact of knowledge between individuals without or outside of a production organization.[1] MAR spillovers, Porter spillovers and Jacobs spillovers are three types of spillovers.[1]

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After watching my presentation on YouTube, several people have asked me for a specific definition of “context collapse.”  Here is an excerpt taken from the middle of a paper called “YouTube and You: Experiences of Self-Awareness in the Context Collapse of the Recording Webcam” that I recently submitted for peer-review.   (Skip to the fourth paragraph for the definition of context collapse):

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According to Goffman, the social actor has the ability to choose his stage and props, as well as the costume he would put on in front of a specific audience. The actor's main goal is to keep his coherence, and adjust to the different settings offered him. This is done mainly through interaction with other actors. To a certain extent, this imagery bridges structure and agency, enabling each, while saying that structure and agency can limit each other.
A major theme that Goffman treats throughout the work is the fundamental importance of having an agreed upon definition of the situation in a given interaction, in order to give the interaction coherency. In interactions, or performances, the involved parties may be audience members and performers simultaneously; the actors usually foster impressions that reflect well upon themselves, and encourage the others, by various means, to accept their preferred definition. Goffman acknowledges that when the accepted definition of the situation has been discredited, some or all of the actors may pretend that nothing has changed, if they find this strategy profitable to themselves or wish to keep the peace. For example, when a lady who is attending a formal dinner—and who is certainly striving to present herself positively—trips, nearby party-goers may pretend not to have seen her fumble; they assist her in maintaining face. Goffman avers that this type of artificial, willed credulity happens on every level of social organization, from top to bottom.

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This book attacks the assumption found in much moral philosophy that social control as such is an intellectually and morally destructive force. It replaces this view with a richer and deeper perspective on the nature of social character aimed at showing how social freedom cannot mean immunity from social pressure. The author demonstrates how our competence as rational and social agents depends on a constructive adaptation of social control mechanisms. Our facility at achieving our goals is enhanced, rather than undermined, by social control. The author then articulates sources, contracts, and degrees of legitimate social control in different social and historical settings. Drawing on a wide range of material in moral and political philosophy, law, cognitive and social psychology, anthropology, and literature, Professor Schoeman shows how the aim of moral philosophy ought to be to understand our social character, not to establish fortifications against it in the name of rationality and autonomy.

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The notion that more will be given to those that already have.

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Maps are political, of course, and community-edited maps can set off conflicts. When Mr. Ahmad tried to work on the part of Kashmir that is administered by Pakistan, he found that Map Maker wouldn’t allow it. He said his contributions were finally accepted by the Map Maker team, which is led by engineers based in India, but only after a long e-mail exchange.
At his request, Google is now preventing further changes to the region, after people in India tried to make it part of their country, Mr. Ahmad said. “Whenever you have a Pakistani and an Indian doing something together, there is a political discussion or dispute.”

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In September, Google introduced a new feature on Google Maps called Place Pages, where you can click through and see a little Yelp-type info page of your search result that includes reviews, hours, etc. Apparently someone has managed to get a picture of a dead fetus and a link to a pro-life website on the page for the Bleeker St. Planned Parenthood in Manhattan.

The vandalism appears only to be on the page for this particular Planned Parenthood. How did they do it? The page has been registered with Google's Local Business Center, which means only that business can edit it. So, either a pro-life person registered the page under the guise of Planned Parenthood and uploaded the picture, or it was legitimately registered by Planned Parenthood and hacked into. (The second case seems more likely, as all the other info on the page is correct.) Or maybe the Bleeker St. Planned Parenthood just felt like they were getting too busy.

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This article is an applied experiment in digital scholarship. Over the last decade networked information resources have come to play a large role in the work of historians; most of us have become accustomed to augmenting our library research and professional discussion through digital means. Despite these changes, scholars have only begun to craft scholarship designed specifically for the electronic environment. In this article, we attempt to translate the fundamental components of professional scholarship-evidence, engagement with prior scholarship, and a scholarly argument-into forms that take advantage of the possibilities of electronic media.

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This database is part of a collaborative project to map historic sites across South Africa’s townships. The primary focus of the database is the history of Soweto’s built environment and the role of its historic resources in the liberation movement. At this time, the database provides a framework for further research. Included are primary and secondary sources already vetted and assigned to a specific building or historic site.

Historic sites listed in the database are not only limited to currently existing resources, but also describe sites that are no longer extant. The database includes a description of the historic site, details of sources with expanded documentation, photographs and related finds, and, if possible, a site history.

After taking into account the staggering breadth and diversity of Soweto heritage resources, the Soweto ‘76 team made the judgment to open the database recovery effort to an informed public. All interested persons are invited to contribute by suggesting additions, corrections, and additional documentation of existing sites.

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Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration among the University of Maryland's College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Since its founding in 1999, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading centers of its kind, distinguished by the cultural diversity so central to its identity. Located in McKeldin Library at the heart of the campus, MITH is the University's primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, electronic literature, and cyberculture, as well as the home of the Electronic Literature Organization, the most prominent international group devoted to the writing, publishing and reading of electronic literature.

On a day to day basis, MITH functions as an applied think tank for the digital humanities, both in furthering the excellence of its Fellows' research and in cultivating its own innovative research agendas--currently clustering around digital tools, text mining and visualization, and the creation and preservation of electronic literature, digital games, virtual worlds. Our work unfolds in a generous physical space, complemented by programs and events that include team-consultations for faculty digital projects, weekly Digital Dialogues (brown bags), frequent visiting speakers, themed Coffeehouse Conversations, courses taught in our seminar room, and ongoing interaction among fellows, students, and staff. Many of our events are open to the public.

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