Amazing. Beautiful. Perfect.
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.”
Spark: Internet Linguistics — Q&A with David Crystal
David Crystal is a world-renowned linguist. He’s the author of over 100 books, and an advocate of what he calls “Internet Linguistics” — an approach to understanding how we use language online. Nora Young interviewed David for Spark 220. This Q&A is a lightly edited version of that…
Seriously, this crap diminishes the role and work of PR, communications, marketing, and other professionals who do work with social media.
Also, bwahahahaha!
Ugh.
“They are in a very difficult position. On one hand they want to project an image of protecting your privacy. On the other, they have statutory obligations to keep government programs confidential.”
— Thomas A. Sporkin, a former SEC enforcement official and partner at Buckley Sandler, in a Dealbook article on technology giants, such as Facebook and Google, providing statements denying knowledge of the NSA’s Prism surveillance program. (via prweek)
The National Security Agency is gathering the telephone records of millions of Verizon’s US business customers, according to a report Wednesday night by The Guardian. Verizon subsidiary Verizon Business Network Services was ordered to give the NSA call logs “on an ongoing daily basis” by the secret Foreign Intelligence Security Courton April 25.
Civil liberties and privacy advocates slammed the intelligence-gathering method, with the ACLU calling it “beyond Orwellian,” and former Vice President Al Gore asking followers on Twitter if the practice is “obscenely outrageous.”
Verizon had not commented in media reports by Thursday morning. Unnamed White House officials defended the practice, clarifying that it “does not allow the government to listen in on anyone’s telephone calls” and saying it is “a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats” that has received approval from “all three branches of government.”
Klout for business
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using using the Klout for Business beta.
The insights Klout for Business offers are powerful - it helps me identify the key influencers in my industry, understand their interests and shows me where to best connect with them.
This makes Klout an effective tool for businesses, something it hasn’t necessarily been in the past.
Itbusiness.ca profiled how I’m using Klout for Business for CIRA’s social media activities here.
Is this the greatest thing that ever happened?
I think it just might be.
(Plus, just look at the guitar. Beautiful)
I’m kind of excited to launch this new podcast today.
With Canadians Connected, my co-host and I will address Internet related topics that are important to Internet users (without geeking out!).
The first episode is a conversation with an Internet security expert about cyber attacks.
