Stephen E. Arnold: 5,000 Facebook Fake News Identities for Sale…

Fake News May Be a Forever Feature According to the story: For $13, a Buzzfeed reporter was able to buy the longstanding Facebook profile of a fake 23 year old British woman living in London with 921 friends and a deep, plausible dossier of activities, likes and messages. The reporter’s contact said they could supply …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Loves DoD Dollars

Why Is Amazon Chasing DoD Work? Next week I will describe some of our findings from what has been our Amazon “policeware” research. On June 5, 2018, I will post a video snippet from my presentation and issue a short article in this blog. Other Arnold Posts on Amazon Below the Fold

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Still Sucks

Search Is a Problem: Still a Clumsy Song and Dance Routine From the point of view of flailing content management experts, “enterprise search” means finding information in a usually flawed, Rube Goldberg construct called a CMS or content management system. Against this wallpaper with my scrawled biases, I read “Diagnosing Enterprise Search Failures.” The pivot point …