Saturday, November 27, 2010

Sports: Tennis: ATP World Tour Finals with Federer vs Djokovic






Live Roger Federer v Novak Djokovic

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By David Ornstein
2210: So that just about wraps up our coverage of the ATP World Tour Finals semi-finals. One was absolute belter of a match, the other a cold-blooded demolition. It leaves us with the tantalising prospect of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer scrapping it out for the 22nd time in Sunday's final; the latest instalment in one of the greatest rivalries the sport has ever seen. Kick-off is 1730 GMT and you really, really don't want to miss this one. Really. See you then. Oh, and in the meantime, you can relive Federer-Djokovic via Piers Newbery's excellent match report. Night.
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Times tennis correspondent Neil Harman on Twitter: "I only hope Rafa recovers physically from the ultra-demanding semi v. AM. If so, a final to savour. They last played 5 mnths ago in Madrid."
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BBC Sport's Piers Newbery tweeting from the O2 Arena:"Federer finishes off NoDjo 6-1 6-4 after 79 minutes and looks like the favourite to me now. Federer v Nadal in the final. Tasty."
2151: "It seems like it's working this week," says Federer following his victory. "I played well against a player who's had a great season. I played a great match so I'm very happy. I hope I can keep this up for a long, long time. I'm really enjoying myself and I hope I can produce something good tomorrow. Rafa showed today why he is the best player in the world at the moment and it should be a good match. We haven't played that much recently but I'm looking forward to playing him. Our styles match up well and he's always very respectful, which I appreciate. We've had some epics and some matches that didn't quite live up to expectations. Hopefully tomorrow will be a great match."
Federer 6-1 6-4 Djokovic
Text book front foot cover drive (this is cricket, isn't it?) puts Federer 15-0 up. When Djokovic goes long it's 30-15 and a forehand wide makes it 40-15. Two match points. Djokovic frames a forehand return into the crowd. That's it. Game, set and match Federer. Still hasn't dropped a set all tournament. No smiles from Federer - his mind is firmly set on Sunday's final against Rafael Nadal. The final everyone wanted. Nadal v Federer at 1730 GMT. Can't wait.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Sports: Weekend Schedule: This is the big weekend for soccer worldw+d

Washington Post's Soccer Ins+der listings for football / soccer worlw+d:

Posted at 6:00 PM ET, 11/24/2010

Weekend soccer TV listings:

 Thanksgiving edition
By Steve Goff
Happy thanksgiving. Enjoy the turkey. Enjoy the matches.
What are you going to watch -- besides Barcelona-Real Madrid?
Many additional matches are available at espn3.comfoxsoccer.tv
(All times are Eastern)
THURSDAY
Sudamericana, Independiente-Liga Quito 7:30 p.m. Fox Deportes
Mexico playoffs, America-Santos Laguna 8 p.m. Galavision
Mexico playoffs, Pumas-Monterrey 10 p.m. Telemundo
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY
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Comix and Cartoons: Semiotics experiment with Schulz's Peanuts and Good ol' Charlie Brown


See, I found this image -- a 12-panels narrataive comix-strip for daily noozmedia, print and digital -- I found the page on the blog Faith and Theology, so I'll have faith that they got their facts and theology correct r+t, and it's theologically and theomorally okay to spread the meme of this strip around.  But I thawt there shoud be some value added.  So, I did a semiotic analysis, expressed by the Rookmakerian Nature (bottom / foreground) and Grace (top / background replaced by text of prayers made on the baseball field below the horizon-l+n which is also the talk-buble-l+n, wanting to catch that ball.

Then suddenly his prayers are ansswered like a shower from heaven, and the ball drops out of the upper cloud level (which doubles as the text-inscribed talk-buble), as it were, his prayers are andwered and ssuddenly the rain-clouds/talk-bubble, as it were (you don't really see this moment) showers down the baseball -- only to have the visor of his cap obstruct the ball's fall and tho it drops into Charlie Brown's pocket -- he's a second to late, and it plops out of his mitt and onto the ground, in a dec+dedly unmiraculous way.  Or ... .

Click the page-image to see a larger version of the comix-strip.

Look in the pix above that I've marked with a downward blue arrowhead and the inscribed words "the cap BONK!"  Look at that point, where Schulz himself has inscribed the text BONK! and he's obviously letting us witness how Charlie fell rapt on the thawt of a miracle, and all cute and outwardly humble as thru his own prayer-words the Holy Spirit is converting him to Christ, the reformation of his people, and the coming of his Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

URL: Faith and Theology blog (Nov25,2k10)
URL:  Some notes on Semiotics (Nov 23-Nov25,2k10)



Some questions to inç+t analysis and reflection:

• What's the meaning of this panel ? (Panel #11, my numbering)

• What role does this panel play in the story? What role does this panel play in the shift of horizon?

• What role does the disappearance of the horizon-l+n  play, especially when the Nature/Grace  schematic disappears?

• Why the disappearance of the horizon-l+n  in the last two panels (Panels #!! and #12)?  Has the Age of Nature/Grace in painting (a la Rookmaker) given way to the Age of Enl+tenment?

• What role do the colors play in Albert's hommage-version overlayed on Schulz's masterpiece original, my version being entitled "Albert's mutilation."

• In Albert's version, when and why do the purple epaulettes disappear from Charlie Brown's cap?

-- Semiotikos

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Technics: Video: Open Internet, speaking for Ford Foundation A MUST SEE !





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Sports: Baseball MLB: National League's Cincinnati Reds pitcher named MVP



Joey Votto, defensive first-baseman for the Cincinnati Reds (National Baseball League), was voted Most Valuable Player of his league yesterday (Nov22,2k10).

-- ESPN vid, posted by Sportikos

Josh Hamilton, American League's Texas Rangers 


Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton was named the American League Most Valuable Player on Tuesday, reaching a peak after years of being derailed by drugs and alcohol.

"I would say a 99 percent chance that this would never happen," said Hamilton, who became the franchise's fifth MVP. "I mean, honestly, I think a lot of people would agree with that."
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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Music: CountryUSA: Frankie Ballard enters stage guitaring and singing ...

Leading webs+t in the country-music genre and its field of listeners with big ears swarming toward the nearest truest sound,  Great American Country is the place to watch.  I recently happened upon this brief on GAC, "Frankie Ballard Biography" (I just found it today and don't see any documentation or even mention of Ballard's actual age.) I think they're trying to keep floating the urban legend that this guy is still 18, but more l+lk 28, I'd say.

GAC's Franki Ballard Biography


Hailing from Battle Creek, MI, Frankie Ballard may be a newcomer to Nashville, but his edgy country rock sounds like the work of someone deeply at home in Music City. His heartfelt first single, "Tell Me You Get Lonely," is a power mid-tempo song, but a slow down for this singer and powerful guitar slinger. Currently at work on his upcoming debut album for Reprise Records with producer Michael Knox (Jason Aldean), Frankie keeps things rolling on songs like "Get On Down the Road" and "While The Sun Sleeps," which is brim with a brash, youthful vigor and potent high energy.
The fleet-fingered Frankie got his start singing Elvis songs with his dad at the age of five and jokes that he shot his first music video in the family basement when he was seven. Obsessed with baseball and intent on becoming a professional athlete, Frankie didn’t learn to play guitar until he was 18, but once he did, it was full-steam ahead as he locked himself in his room for hours a day to master the instrument. He began playing in blues bands, juggling weeknight gigs with his weekend college baseball commitments. Eventually, music won out, and in the summer of 2008, Frankie won Kenny Chesney’s "Next Big Star" regional competition in Michigan.

Frankie Ballard photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Nashville.
He opened for Chesney at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids and at Ford Field in Detroit, which led to a publishing deal with Sony ATV, Morris Artists Management (Alabama, Kenny Chesney) representation, and a recording contract with Reprise Records. Frankie moved to Nashville in April 2009 and began recording songs penned by such hit makers as Dallas Davidson (Trace Adkins, Brooks & Dunn) and David Lee Murphy (Jason Aldean) on his debut album. Listen for his first single, "Tell Me You Get Lonely," off his forthcoming Reprise Records debut album, which has already landed inside the Top 40 on the country charts.

-- Country Gal, posting GAC stuff and commenting, 

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Video: Slave Trade USA: Interview with producers of Traces of the Trade


U.S. Slavery in the North - Inner Compass from Calvin College on Vimeo.
When Katrina Browne was 28 years old and in seminary, she learned that her ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. And, they were not from the South; they had lived in Rhode Island. Katrina wrote to 200 family members, inviting them to explore their family's past. The result: an award-winning documentary, Traces of the Trade, made with co-producer Juanita Brown, who helped plan a journey to Africa for the group and facilitate painful conversations about their discoveries. Karen Saupe hosts.


I'm not keen on the idea of reparations.  I'm white (w+t).  I feel no guilt whatsoever for slavery or special responsibliity shoud someone bother to accuse me of being a descendent of slave-traders or slave-owners. I'm not.  My ancestors were driven out of Lithuania at the turn from the 19th to the 20th centuries, driven out by economic conditions and Czarism.  Racism was not believed in, nor tawt in my family.  Perhaps with an exaggerated Marxist totality-analysis, one coud argue with me that I and m+ family were "complicit" in slavery, or Jim Crow, or the Lord knows what.  Of course, no sooner brawt up than the obvious requ+rment is to determine the precise degree of complicity.  I notice that some thinkers among American Jews now talk about "degrees of anti-Semitism."

But the guilty and the descendents of slaves in America shoud not construct the realities so that this becomes / is made a black versus w+t issue.  Some American blacks are not the descendents of slaves, at least not of slaves brawt to America or raised here.  We have a significant population now of Black Americans who are immigrants from Black Africa.  They shoudn't receive any reparations, were there such.  And some of them  perhaps were the descendents of Black slave-traders and Black owners of slavces in Africa's history (I certainly welcome the producers in limiting the discussion to slavery in the MidAtlantic trade triangle and in slavery in the USA, but m+ own interests embrace the African milieu which welcomed slave-traders from Western and Islamic civilizations).  Prez Barack Obama is not the descendent of American slaves, but his w+f apparently and their children are.

L+kw+z, some w+ts in America are not the descendents of slave-traders or slave-owners and were not "complicit" in any immiseration of Black people, here or abroad, except in the most trivial totalistic sense.  Except:  if you are using racist categories to begin with (w+t = slaver; black = innocent), or use Marxist-originated ideas of totality-systems of society, a grandiose metanarrative that turns out to be trivializing by including all sorts of w+t people, wrongly, among the "complicit." For instance.

It's a hard topic.  I deeply appreciate the Calvin College video interview, and will probably benefit much by and appreciate deeply the original work whose producers are the interviewees.  The documentary movie itself were shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim.

-- Politicarp, refWr+t frontpage columnist


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Music: CountryUSA: Here's the latest chart of the Top 20 in the genre


Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley rehearse on Monday, Nov. 8 at the Bridgestone Arena in Downtown Nashville for “The 44th Annual CMA Awards,” which werewi broadcast live on the ABC Television Network on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 8-11PM/ET. Photographer: John Russell / CMA.

Top 20 Country Countdown counts down the week’s top country videos from No. 20 to No. 1 as voted by viewers on each week onGACTV.com. A new countdown premieres every Friday at 8 p.m. ET on GAC and airs again Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET; Sundays at 1 p.m. ET; and Mondays at 10 a.m. ET. Viewers can vote for their favorite videos, as well as purchase Top 20 artists’ albums and ringtones at GACTV.com.


THIS WEEK’S CHART:

1. Carrie Underwood “Mama’s Song”
2. Jason Aldean “My Kinda Party”
3. Zac Brown Band “As She’s Walking Away”
4. Taylor Swift “Mine”
5. Blake Shelton “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking”
6. Miranda Lambert “Only Prettier”
7. The Band Perry “If I Die Young”
8. Sara Evans “A Little Bit Stronger”
9. Reba McEntire “Turn On The Radio”
10. Keith Urban “Put You In A Song”
11. Chris Young “Voices”
12. Bo Bice “You Take Yourself With You”
13. Sugarland “Stuck Like Glue”
14. Trace Adkins “This Ain’t No Love Song”
15. Toby Keith “Bullets In The Gun”
16. Lady Antebellum “Hello World”
17. Joey + Rory “That’s Important To Me”
18. Kenny Chesney “The Boys Of Fall”
19. Eric Church “Smoke A Little Smoke”
20. Steel Magnolia “Just By Being You (Halo And Wings)”

-- Country Gal


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Music: CountryUSA: Here's the latest chart of the Top 20 in the genre


Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley rehearse on Monday, Nov. 8 at the Bridgestone Arena in Downtown Nashville for “The 44th Annual CMA Awards,” which werewi broadcast live on the ABC Television Network on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 8-11PM/ET. Photographer: John Russell / CMA.

Top 20 Country Countdown counts down the week’s top country videos from No. 20 to No. 1 as voted by viewers on each week onGACTV.com. A new countdown premieres every Friday at 8 p.m. ET on GAC and airs again Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET; Sundays at 1 p.m. ET; and Mondays at 10 a.m. ET. Viewers can vote for their favorite videos, as well as purchase Top 20 artists’ albums and ringtones at GACTV.com.


THIS WEEK’S CHART:

1. Carrie Underwood “Mama’s Song”
2. Jason Aldean “My Kinda Party”
3. Zac Brown Band “As She’s Walking Away”
4. Taylor Swift “Mine”
5. Blake Shelton “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking”
6. Miranda Lambert “Only Prettier”
7. The Band Perry “If I Die Young”
8. Sara Evans “A Little Bit Stronger”
9. Reba McEntire “Turn On The Radio”
10. Keith Urban “Put You In A Song”
11. Chris Young “Voices”
12. Bo Bice “You Take Yourself With You”
13. Sugarland “Stuck Like Glue”
14. Trace Adkins “This Ain’t No Love Song”
15. Toby Keith “Bullets In The Gun”
16. Lady Antebellum “Hello World”
17. Joey + Rory “That’s Important To Me”
18. Kenny Chesney “The Boys Of Fall”
19. Eric Church “Smoke A Little Smoke”
20. Steel Magnolia “Just By Being You (Halo And Wings)”

-- Country Gal

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Sports: Hockey: Montreal Canadiens lead 1st half of ton+t's game against Carollina Hurricanes.

Montreal Gazette at 7:38 EST.

2-0 after one

posted by Mike Boone at 7h38 EST on Nov 13



Carolina came out skating and had 15 shots on goal.
Carey Price stopped them all, in frequently spectacular fashion.
Cam Ward faced 10 Canadiens shots and surrendered goals to Tomas Plekanec (brilliant, as usual, tonight) and Mike Cammalleri.
The Canadiens killed two penalties and will be short-handed when the second period begins.

Carolina Hurricanes?  All I can get, yet that's a great get, is the Philadelphia Flyers at Canadiens home-base rink.  The Flyers demolished the 'Canes Thursday (8-0)

-- Sportikos

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Friday, November 12, 2010

Technics: Big Net intern+cenes: Google and Facebook face-off

This page exhibits an excellent visual/digital interface with live-links (hopefully) -- and that's on the pre-textual levels only.  The the main textual level below is nooz story about the Big Net Superpowers, both Google and Facebook (two of m+ most favouriteds).

Google, Facebook wrangle

over Data Sharing 

Facebook engineer criticizes Google's decision to change the terms of service of its contact sharing API. 





Top 15 Google Apps For Business
Slideshow: Top 15 Google Apps For Business
(click image for larger view and for full slideshow)
Google and Facebook continued to wage their public war of words over openness, as Facebook engineer Mike Vernal posted a blog comment responding to a work-around that makes it easier for Facebook users to avoid Google's recent move blocking Facebook from capturing information about users' contacts in Gmail.
-- posted by Technowlb
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Sunday, November 07, 2010

Video: FairFood lobby: For good food, with producers paid a fair price, sustainably



Slogan:  Eat fair, beat hunger.

I'm wondering, What are "assurance projects"?

I'm wondering what are the organizations  ICT?  FLX? and QMS?

Bottom l+ners will say, Food's gonna' cost us more!

Yeah, but the marginal producers will receive a fairer pr+c. Bes+dz, the
present system isn't sustainable.

Is that a clincher?

-- EconoMix, refWrite frontpage columnist

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Sports: Soccer and Football: Two kinds of games f+t it out for market share

MediaBistro has a SportsNewser webpage that's "calling the shots in sports media news," or so it believes. Whatever.  I'm interested becawz of the sports info below, comparing the USA's National Football League's attempted entry into English sports market by playing a major exhibition game there on Nov3,2k10.  Noah Davis reports on the Brit soccer vs USA football competition that's perhaps in the offing.

FOOTBALL

Why the NFL Struggles to Gain a Foothold in Europe













On Sunday, the San Francisco Giants and the Denver Broncos played a brutally game  football game at Wembley Stadium in London, England. The game was the fourth installment of “NFL goes to Europe,” a plan to increase the sport’s popularity across the pond.
Success? Hardly.
We turn to Sean O’Conor from No Short Corners. And go:
In that sense I resemble someone handed tickets to a game at USA ’94 who enjoyed the day out but drove home scratching his head at the offside rule and relative lack of scoring. I spent many a Friday night a decade ago driving to watch high-school football in invisible towns in rural Kansas, and before that accompanying football-mad friends to watch nascent gridiron teams clash in the incongruous setting of Sunday summer afternoons in England, but it never stuck beyond the spectacle and sense of occasion. It can be hard to fall in love with a sport you have not played.
If soccer and football were racing to conquer America and Europe, respectively, you’d have to give the edge to the former sport. Major League Soccer saw attendance jump four percent in the recently completed 2010 seasons and college soccer is seeing unprecedented interest, while the NFL can’t get more than a game abroad. Both sports will eventually crossover, but don’t expect either to happen anytime soon.
I wasn't prepared for this development, the trend reporter Davis sees and regarding which he cautions us not to make fantastical presumptions -- yet even he seems to regard the mutual crossover of the games of soccer (British football) and American football, well, inevitable.  But gradual, l+k evolution; nothing revolutionary.

Okay, I'm persuaded.  In the meantime, the h+ly dangerous and often brutal sport of American football (as Sean O'Conor mentions in passing ... it is indeed too brutal, yet it)  catches m+ eye on the telly oftentimes when I coud choose a soccer meet in Canada, USA, England, or a bunch of other countries (mostly European).  The media infrastructure is available  for both sports (but the pro and college football games are carried simultaneously on several channels and all day long, one after the otherm on most sports channels), wh+l the soccer coverage ranges beyond the North American franchises, with much focus  on English teams and more generally European.  But not much on games in Latin America, Africa, or Asia (we do get Asian cricket on the telly here).  Watching TV football is almost a mandatory ritual on Sunday afternoons.  Many Christians tends to have the schedule:  Church, Lunch, Football, on Sundays.

-- Sportikos

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Architecture: Urban Plan: Hong Kong goes for bust in rebuild for West Kowloon


Architectural Record via AGC's email newsletter for the construction industry (Nov2,2k10) reports on a massive urban redevel- opment planned for Hong Kong.  It's expected that the West Kowloon Cultural District will take more than 5 years to build, starting in 2k15:
With the recent unveiling of three competing master plans for the colossal West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD), Hong Kong finds itself at a watershed moment—one that will not only shape a prominent waterfront site, but also help define the city’s place in the ever-changing firmament of global cultural destinations.




The $2.8-billion publicly funded project will be Asia’s largest cultural complex and is part of Hong Kong’s drive to become “Asia’s World City.” Its scale and ambition—40 hectares of prime real estate (including 23 hectares of open space, 264,200 square meters of cultural facilities, and 422,800 square meters of commercial property)—are daunting. Construction is slated to begin in 2015 and continue in phases until 2020 or later.

Sitting on reclaimed waterfront land left vacant for more than 13 years, WKCD has a checkered history of grand hopes and disappointments. In 2004, Foster + Partners won a developer-led bid competition with a scheme that placed a gigantic glass canopy over the site. But the project was abandoned after loud criticism of the competition process and the architectural design. Eventually, the government set up an independent WKCD Authority, which relaunched the project in 2008 and commissioned three master-plan consultant teams—guided by Foster + Partners, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, and Rocco Design Architects—to compete for the job. Their schemes were unveiled in August, and the winner is expected to be announced in early 2011.
The scale of the development, altho vast, will not displace the larger urban organism that the whole of Hong Kong constitutes, with its diversity of universities, businesses, and churches. And a municipal government accountable to the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China.

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-- Archibald DerDash

Monday, November 01, 2010

Sports: BaseballUSA: World Series won by SanFran Giants as Texas Rangers yell Outch!

Yeah, I got it from HuffPuff twit:  San Fransisco Giants deliver low blow to cocky Texas Rangers.  Congrats to Giants.  Maybe next t+m, Rangers. Giants took game 5, and the Series with a 3-1 score.

Updates:

Yeah, the updates are pouring into my Twitter account from these media sources:

Montreal Gazette:  Giants beat Rangers to win World Series

BBC News:  Giants seal World Series victory

Ustream:  Celebrations continue in San Francisco, as Giants fans party like it's 1954. < http://ustre.am/2tWv > #worldseries #mlb (300+ viewers LIVE now)

Tech Crunch: You Can Now Follow The World Series #SFRiot On Twitter by @alexia

-- Sportikos

Sports: Junior Hockey: System exposed by brave med scientists and reporters

Canadian Press, the service to newspapers print and online, also has an online edition of its own. Today CP is running an article by Sheryl Ubelacker "Concussion rate in junior hockey 7 times higher than previously reported: study" (Nov1,2k10). Via Winnipeg Free Press online. Here's Ubelacker's analysis:

TORONTO - The proportion of junior hockey players who suffer concussion is far more significant than previously thought, says a groundbreaking study that has researchers calling for changes to how Canada's national game is played at all levels.

"The results of this study demonstrate an incidence of concussion significantly higher than any other study in the literature — seven times higher," lead investigator Dr. Paul Echlin told a news conference Monday.

Echlin, a sports medicine specialist in London, Ont., said the study recorded the number of concussions sustained by members of two unnamed junior hockey teams during the 2009-2010 regular season.

Seventeen players suffered a total of 21 concussions during 52 physician-observed games — with almost one-quarter of those occurring among players involved in on-ice fights, say the researchers, whose study is published in the November issue of the journal Neurological Focus.

Echlin said that during the season, 29 per cent of players who had a concussion went on to suffer a second or recurrent concussions — brain injuries that have the potential to result in lifelong physical and cognitive deficits.

-- Sportikos posting Ubelacker

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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Music: Gospel: Johnny Cash sings about Resurrection and meeting Jesus -- you can join in by adding to the visuals of this YouTube music vid



Double-posted to rW frontpage as well.   yUT2be

Tech: Security Online: My Space webs+t sends your personal Identity Data when ads are clickd

I got the dope on MySpace from Wall Street Journal reporters Geoffrey Fowler and Emily Steel who did an investigation to find out what the hell is goin' on (WSJ, Oct23,2k10) "S+t sends personal IDs when ads are clicked" :

MySpace and some popular applications on the social-networking s+t have been transmitting data to outside advertising companies that could be used to identify users, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

The market for data about Web users is hot--and one of the methods used is "scraping," harvesting online conversations. In May, Nielsen scraped private forums where patients discuss illnesses. How can web users prevent their data from being scraped? Julia Angwin joins Digits to discuss.

The information was primarily sent by MySpace when users clicked on ads. The website had pledged to discontinue the practice of sending personal data when users click on ads after the Journal reported it in May.

A MySpace spokesman said the data identify the user profile being viewed but not necessarily the person who clicked on the ad. MySpace is owned by News Corp (shame!, let's see if Fox News will give noozcoverage to this WSJ report) -- WSJ is also owned by News Corp, which also owns The Wall Street Journal.
-- Technowlb

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