Pretty good coverage of the “iphone keeps track of where you’ve been” story in today’s NYT “Inquiries Grow Over Apple’s Data Collection Practices” and in
Category: New York Times
Sociology of Information in the News
A flurry of sociology of information items in today’s New York Times: “Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins” In a digital
Information and the Humanities
New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen has been on the “ideas and intellectual life” beat for sometime and has recently produced some excellent pieces of
Outflanking "the Human" with Information
Two stories in NYT today about data crunching. One on mapping neuron connections in mice to understand how brains work. The other on using statistics
