Links

A bit fewer links this week, as I’ve actually managed to stick with the schedule and get these out on a Friday evening, rather than hoarding them until there are too many to really process. I hope that you enjoy them, and have time to peruse them over the weekend! An article not in the links, because it was shared with me, is Jon Carroll’s article, in which he puts a spotlight onto some of the location privacy issues brought about by FaceHook’s recent move to encourage users to share their geolocation with the world. It’s worth a read, I think, particularly if you’re not aware of the issue of geolocation privacy.

Enjoy!

Education:

• Encouraging the Next Generation of IT Workers    18 August 2010, 10:30 am

Medical Technology:

• Six Causes of Online Disinhibition    19 August 2010, 6:25 am
• Evolution Surprise: Bacteria Have “Noses,” Can Smell    18 August 2010, 9:25 am

Miscellany:

• Interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin: ‘Wall Street Bankers Are Not Pure Evil’    20 August 2010, 8:27 am
• Giant Underwater Plume Confirmed—Gulf Oil Not Degrading    19 August 2010, 2:19 pm
• On the Way Down: The Erosion of America’s Middle Class    19 August 2010, 8:29 am
• Sarkozy Finds a Scapegoat: France Begins Controversial Roma Deportations    19 August 2010, 6:25 am
• Eating Well: Giving Up Meat for a Better World    18 August 2010, 11:04 pm
• No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion?    18 August 2010, 7:52 am
• Singapore’s anti-corruption bureau mum on kickback case    17 August 2010, 9:45 am
• Laptop e-mail cache tipped Apple to kickbacks scheme    17 August 2010, 9:24 am
• Why Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing in a Warmer World    16 August 2010, 3:16 pm

Privacy:

• Facebook’s Places raises more privacy debate    20 August 2010, 12:07 am
• How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook Places    19 August 2010, 3:39 pm
• Interview with Germany’s Consumer Protection Minister: ‘Google Cannot Allow Itself to Make any Further Mistakes’    19 August 2010, 7:43 am
• The World from Berlin: ‘Google Knows More about Us than the KGB, Stasi or Gestapo’    19 August 2010, 4:10 am
• Setting Hurdles for Google and Others: ‘Germans Like to Look, But Not to Be Looked At’    18 August 2010, 7:26 am
• Steamrolled by Google Street View: Internet Challenges Overwhelm German Government    17 August 2010, 12:00 am

Robotics:

• A Hop, Skip and a Jump on the Moon–and Beyond    20 August 2010, 9:32 am

Security:

• NIST Is Nearly Ready to Pick the Next Hash Algorithm    20 August 2010, 9:31 am
• Facebook scams abound: Clickjacking, “dislike” button wreak havoc    18 August 2010, 11:19 am
• More identity thieves using card skimmers    17 August 2010, 12:07 am

Social Computing:

• Detecting Depression Online    20 August 2010, 9:30 am

Technology:

• Research Paves the Way for Unselfish Computerized Agents    20 August 2010, 9:30 am
• What Does ‘P vs. NP’ Mean for the Rest of Us?    20 August 2010, 9:29 am
• Online game firm grows as more players buy in    19 August 2010, 10:50 am
• Clothing to Power Personal Computers    18 August 2010, 10:27 am
• A Chip That Digests Data and Calculates the Odds    18 August 2010, 10:26 am

-D