Surveillance States, How Open Source Threatens SAS, and More Data Links

A very interesting post discovered a few days ago,

• Internet: “our surveillance state is efficient beyond the wildest dreams of Orwell” http://us.cnn.com/… by Bruce_Schneier via ‏apisanty

and as usual, several posts and articles, here and there,

• “Scientist bloggers serve an important function in the continuum of science communication.”http://nature.com/spoton/…  via ‏cynorrhodon
• “When selling science is just telling science” http://biolbull.org/… editorial on “Selling and Over-Selling Science”
• “The biggest threat to SAS is the open source movement which offers big data analytic approaches such as Mahout and R” http://smartdatacollective.com/tony-cosentino/…
• “Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data”http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/… via http://arstechnica.com/business/…
• “What’s The Trigger That Will Cause The Fed To Act?” http://forbes.com/sites/realspin/
• “The social structure of news” http://digitopoly.org/ … by joshgans see also ”Farewell, dear reader”http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/… “Twitter, which has replaced Reader (and R.S.S.) for many people”
• “Using Twitter for Curated Academic Content” http://thisisallan.com/…
• “Business à la française” http://ft.com/intl/cms/ … via lemondeecoent et courrierinter(en français) http://courrierinternational.com/…
• [logic] You want to cancel ? via ryan

• “To patent an idea, you must publish it. Many firms prefer secrecy”http://economist.com/news/business/… see also ”Should business be allowed to patent mathematics?” http://newscientist.com/article/… via alejandroadem
• “Neuroscientists don’t use blogs. But they think they are very important. Super important, but no one uses them?…” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/…
• “Projected Atlantic hurricane surge threat from rising temperatures” http://pnas.org/content/… viasjvatn‘s http://arstechnica.com/science/… and ”Climate Change Could Mean 7 Times as Many Hurricane Katrinas” http://wired.com/wiredscience/… (see also http://nature.com/ngeo/…)
• “Why bankers are intellectually naked” http://ft.com/intl/… by Martin Wolf (fromeconomistsforum)
• “A Profession With an Egalitarian Core” http://nytimes.com/… via EconomicMayhem
• “Some Fallacies in Econometric Modelling of Climate Change” http://economics.ox.ac.uk/materials/… via DEAGiles
• “Noam Chomsky about the link between activism and academia” http://ft.com/intl/cms/Kc …
• “Can anthropolgy save finance ?” http://tandfonline.com/… why not, people with a PhD in theoretical physics thought they could….
• “‘machines can grade writing exams about as well as humans” http://insidehighered.com/news/ …also http://bit.ly/HJWwdP  and http://insidehighered.com/news/…
• “Twitterers, tweakers, and twitchers: Have you ever been curious about where tw-words come from?” http://blog.oup.com/…) via sapinker
• “The Golden Dilemma” http://papers.ssrn.com/id=2078535 …