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Mixed reaction to Google’s announcement that it may pull out of the Chinese market: These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have [...]

We leave data trails almost everywhere we go: clicking on a link, posting a geo-location tweet, searching online, friending someone on Facebook/LinkedIn, purchasing a sandwich (with a debit or credit card), and so on. The explicification (it’s not a real word, but it should be) of our activities is a somewhat recent development. A few [...]

After exploring the rapid increase in tuition over the last several decades (hardly news), That Old College Lie goes on to state that …for the average student, college isn’t nearly as good a deal as colleges would have us believe…Colleges are often lumped in with other non-profit entities like charities and hospitals in the public [...]

Work is changing in most fields…and Janet Clarey addresses how technology and information influence how she spends her time as an analyst and researcher and how that’s changed in four years: “But I’m noticing that the new things on the list are the type of activities that make it hard to set aside large blocks [...]