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Police Post Mug Shots on Facebook The police department in Evesham Township, NJ is using their Facebook page to post mug shots of people arrested for drunk driving and other offenses. A police officer from Eversham said that posting photos of an offender “arms the public with information and puts a face to a name.” Continue Reading →

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing the concepts and constructs of Truth (with a capital "T"), truth (with a lower case "t"), truthiness (as coined by Stephen Colbert), reality, wikiality (also coined by Stephen Colbert) and facts as they apply to our connected world. Continue Reading →

August 6, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Pentagon Goes After WikiLeaks WikiLeaks is in possession of 15,000 additional secret Afghan war records, that haven’t been published. The Pentagon has demanded that WikiLeaks hand over the sensitive documents and remove the 70,000 documents they’ve already published to the site. If Continue Reading →

Over the next few weeks we are going to explore the concepts and constructs of Truth (with a capital "T"), truth (with a lower case "t"), truthiness (as coined by Stephen Colbert), reality, wikiality (also coined by Stephen Colbert) and facts as they apply to our connected world. Continue Reading →

July 28, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Intel is working on a new chip that can transmit 50 Gbps. The new high-speed laser chip is so fast it can transfer as much as “100 hours of digital music in less than a second.” Intel expects the chips to be Continue Reading →

July 27, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Do you wish your iPhone worked with another carrier? Would you like it to have access to an entire world of apps that aren’t available from the Apple App store? If so, your in luck, because the Library of Congress has just Continue Reading →

July 23, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: The Fail-Whale’s days may be numbered. Even though Twitter is no where near the size of Facebook, it is adding over 300,000 users a day. So, starting in Salt Lake City later this year, Twitter plans to launch its own data centers. Continue Reading →

July 22, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Twitter & Facebook are currently a buzz over a new iPad app called Flipboard. Flipboard is a free app that turns your digital life into a magazine by combing through links your friends post on Facebook and Twitter. Are individualized, social-network based Continue Reading →

July 16, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Apple Press Conference: What’s Apple going to do about its iPhone public relations problem? We’ll know after today’s press conference. I say, discounted or free cases and some kind of apology. Other’s say recall. Senator Chuck Schumer says, “Apple should fix the Continue Reading →

July 14, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: iPhone Antenna Issues? Try Duct Tape: As controversy surrounding the new iPhone grows, Apple is telling users experiencing antenna issues to put duct tape over the lower left side of the device. This seems like a low-tech remedy for a high tech Continue Reading →