Day archives: November 7th, 2015

Exposing the Hidden Web: An Analysis of Third-Party HTTP Requests on One Million Websites

Exposing the Hidden Web: An Analysis of Third-Party – HTTP Requests on One Million Websites. International Journal of Communication, October 2015. Timothy Libert. “This article provides a quantitative analysis of privacy compromising mechanisms on one million popular websites. Findings indicate that nearly nine in ten websites leak user data to parties of which the user …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Twiangulate powers journalism, non-profits and PR

Twiangulate: ‘Find experts and insiders. Discover which accounts are followed by key people in a scribe swarm, gossip empire, artful sphere or judicious gaggle. Understand clout. Determine which influentials and celebs follow an account using our “reach” search. Reveal a group’s favorites. Which accounts are most followed by members of a group, for example, the …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Health at a Glance 2015

“Too many lives are still lost in OECD countries because healthcare quality is improving too slowly to cope with ageing populations and the growing number of people with one or more chronic diseases, according to a new OECD report. Health at a Glance 2015 shows that overall health expenditure continues to grow slowly in many …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Health Care