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Reuters Why Representative Democracies Can't Write Off Transparency
Interest groups from the NRA to the Sierra Club show the power of information to motivate citizens.
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Make Way for the Soccer Geeks
With Manchester City opening up its data to the masses, the golden age of soccer analytics is set to begin.
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Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney's New Twitter Followers Are Just Normal Users: 0%
It is virtually impossible that the former governor's recent spike in Twitter followers resulted from normal activity on the social network.
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When Twitter Stumbles, Sites Across the Web Go Down With It
A Twitter crash may seem trivial, but as more and more services depend on its API, the ramifications grow.
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When You Can't See Your Audience, but You Can See Your Social Life
Computer-mediated communication often makes visible and explicit many aspects of social interaction that are normally invisible or implicit.
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You Can't Use Twitter to Predict Election Results
Twitter may provide useful clues for detecting a spike in influenza, but its users are too different from the population at large for counting votes before they're cast.
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Can Last-Minute Amendments Redeem the Troubling Cybersecurity Bill?
A point-by-point examination of whether changes to the CISPA legislation successfully address its flaws.
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Homeland Security's 'Pre-Crime' Screening Will Never Work
Chances are, you'll snag the wrong people, and when you do, how can you tell? How do you clear suspects of crimes that haven't happened?
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask
A guide to what data mining, how it works, and why it's important.
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It's Not All About You: What Privacy Advocates Don't Get About Data Tracking on the Web
People condemn targeted advertising for its "creepiness" but the real issue is that we are giving private companies more power.
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Can We Harness the Internet to Collaboratively Write Better Laws?
A new platform called Madison seeks to bring more voices to the table, but a few design flaws mar the whole effort.
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Why an International Trade Agreement Could Be as Bad as SOPA
International agreements for regulating intellectual property are a one-way ratchet process: enforcement and protection provisions can go up but never down.
