Stephen E. Arnold: Social Media Demographics

Social Network Demographics by the Numbers EXTRACT: Here are some of the facts: Facebook is still mostly female and remains the top network.  Twitter leans heavier on the male demographic, while YouTube reaches more adults in 18-34 demographic than cable TV.  Instagram is considered the most important of teenage social networks, but Snapchat has the …

2015 ANSWERS Robert Steele for Sean Lorenz on OSINT Update 3

There is a need for hard data and statistics on OSINT — why it has been relegated to the basement and distributed rather than consolidated as with the other disciplines, what it’s successes and failures have been. In how many cases did it provide Intelligence that was critical to mission success ? NEEDS DATA 

Berto Jongman: America’s Troll Army Against Russia – $16M for Contractors, To What Good End?

America Goes Large: Obama Wants Huge Budget for His Anti-Russian Troll Army While issuing scary revelations about the alleged ‘Kremlin Troll Army’ operating online, ‘perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue’, the US government’s international broadcaster RFE/RL somehow forgot to disclose it is prepared to spend as much as $15.4 million of taxpayers’ money on its own digital …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Sucks — Medical Search Sucks More

Medical Search: A Long Road to Travel EXTRACT You will have to dig through old jargon and new jargon such as entity reconciliation. In the law enforcement and intelligence fields, an entity from one language has to be “reconciled” with versions of the “entity” in other languages and from other domains. The technology is easier …

Sepp Hasslberger: Social Network Federation Instead of Decentralization — Body Blow to Twitter and Facebook?

Las Indias about changing the way social networks are configured … to get more meaningful relations and conversations – will it work? GNU social: Federation against the social model of Twitter “Federation issues” may look like a “bug”, but they are really the result of an agreement, an implicit contract: to be part of a …