Get Caught Up: The Best Stories on the Government’s Growing Surveillance
Must reads after the recent news about the National Security Agency and Prism.
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What Happens When You Die on the Internet?
Your accounts get taken care of, and a lot of people are sad.
Using Google to Map American Stereotypes
It’s easy to polarize America–minority/majority, Republican/Democrat, 1 percent/99 percent, religious/atheist, Simpsons-liker/Simpsons-lover. But America is made up of 50…
Paint By Numbers
Artists and collectors looking to cash in on the reported one percent’s run on the international art market…
Analyzing Culture with Google Books: Is It Social Science?
OPINION: Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed 'culturomics' is not the same as being an historian.
How Google Disrespected Mexican History
Opinion: Anything can happen when Google gets involved in digitizing national treasure troves of archived information, warns a frustrated scholar.
The Government, Google and Lady Gaga
In Googling "search" and "gross national product," the government intervention homepage doesn't show up — so far.