While television remains the primary source for voters to get information on the presidential candidates positions, the Internet is the second most used source with 17.8 percent of voters saying they get their information about election issues online according to a survey from Burst Media.One-fifth (21.5%) of men say the Internet is their main source on the positions that the presidential candidates have on major election issues. Among men 25-34 years old, 28.6 percent cite the Internet as their primary source of election information.
33,000 Clear Travelers Information Compromised
A TSA Laptop containing names, social security numbers, passport numbers, and a host of other personal information has been stolen out of a locked cabinet at the San Francisco Airport, and no the hard drive was not encrypted. There is no notification of the breach at the flyclear.com site, nor has anything been reported on the breech blog or on the attrition.org data loss site on this issue yet.
Google Provides Valuable Information On Webserving Techniques
At the Google Webmaster Central Blog, Google has released some valuable information about webserving techniques, especially related to Googlebot.
Music Fans Look To Wikipedia For Band Information
When searching for information about an artist online the first three results users see are the artist’s official Web site, Wikipedia entry and MySpace page.
ShifD Wants To Shift Your Information
Many people access information from multiple devices these days, a trend ShifD believes merits a need for a hosted service to track notes, links, and places of interest.
Information Overload Costing $650 Billion
Information overload is being called the 2008 "Problem-of-the-Year" by research firm Basex.
Users Trust Information On Social Networks
Over 36 percent of Internet users "highly trust" the information they receive from friends in their online social networks, according to a new social Internet survey from Faves.com
Lantos: “Yahoo Provided False Information”
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan have been requested to attend a House Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting over Yahoo’s role in the incarceration of a journalist in China.
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan have been requested to attend a House Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting over Yahoo’s role in the incarceration of a journalist in China.
Selling Information Will Become a High Touch Industry
Newspapers Going Free
The NYT just went free and likely the WSJ will follow. Once something goes free it is hard to start charging for it again – just ask Prince.
FeedHub the Answer to Information Overload?
I’ve been playing with mSpoke’s FeedHub, releasing today at the Demo Conference. I’ll have a video up later today demonstrating the product.
Dan Farber has a review and info up on his ZDNet blog.