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Prediction Markets — 10 worst tech predictions of all time

By Mark Spoonauer, Laptop, Saturday Aug. 10, 2013 In the technology world, bold predictions abound, and they should. Placing big bets in one direction or another is how this industry works. Some pundits try to make educated guesses about where tech is headed, while others prognosticate in reaction to disruptive technologies that could boost (or […]

Top Featured Questions August 2013

Who will be UEFA’s Best Player in Europe 2013? Kerry: Obama has timeline for ending Pakistan drone strikes ‘very, very soon’ … when? What’s the Gold Price US-$/ounce (New York Fixing) on Aug-30-2013 ? How big will the Powerball jackpot grow? Will Anthony Weiner end his candidacy for NY mayor? When will Apple reveal a […]

About:Media — Speed Read: The Six Most Controversial Reza Aslan Claims About Jesus

By Lizzy Crocker, The Daily Beast, Tuesday Jul. 30, 2013 By now you have probably already seen one of the most embarrassing interviews in Fox News history: a Muslim scholar’s work is apparently disregarded purely because of his faith. When you sit down to read the book, however, you can see why some Christians have […]

Prediction Markets — Psychology Influences Markets

By Marcus Woo, California Institute of Technology, Monday July 1, 2013 Economists argue that markets usually reflect rational behavior—that is, the dominant players in a market, such as the hedge-fund managers who make billions of dollars’ worth of trades, almost always make well-informed and objective decisions. Psychologists, on the other hand, say that markets are […]

About:Media — Life after Google Reader

By Eliza Kern and Laura Hazard Owen, Gigaom, Tuesday Jun. 24, 2013 For news geeks, it might have seemed like the end of the world when Google Reader announced it was shutting its doors on July 1, killing a product that was much-loved by its fans but apparently not by Google’s business department. Since Google’s […]

About:Media — Who Made That? New York Times 2013 Innovations Issue on the Web

By Alastair Reid, journalism.co.uk, Wednesday 12 June 2013 The New York Times Magazine Sunday supplement has been re-imagined for the web and an online version of this month’s ‘innovations issue’ went live on Friday, featuring 48 pages of responsive magazine content, complete with responsive advertising, built through HTML5. John Niedermeyer, as lead designer of digital […]

About:Media — How The NSA Prism Story Broke

By Irin Carmon, Salon, Monday 10 June 2013 Laura Poitras, the award-winning documentary filmmaker gave her first since she helped reveal the scope of the National Security Agency’s digital surveillance. Poitras is still in Hong Kong, where she is filming the story behind the story — including her co-author on the Guardian story and former […]

Prediction Markets — Why my prediction market failed–B.C. Votes 2013

By Werner Antweiler, The Globe And Mail, Thursday 16 May 2013 Tuesday’s resounding election win by the B.C. Liberals has caught most people by surprise as polls, pundits and prediction markets were all forecasting a large win by the NDP. How could they all have been so wrong? Traders in a prediction market aggregate news […]

About:Media — Betaworks’ Vision For the Future of Online News

By Seth Fiegerman, mashable, Tuesday 7 May 2013 One of the most talked about companies for online news right now isn’t a journalism outlet or a media conglomerate, but rather a small startup incubator and investor located in the heart of Manhattan’s meatpacking district. “I think you can redefine a media company for this century,” […]

About:Media — Crowdfunding news–a media experiment takes shape

By Kirsten Korosec, smartplanet, Monday 8 April 2013 Dutch journalist Rob Wijnberg made an appeal last month to the masses: invest in a digital news site–that doesn’t yet exist–that will provide a platform for long-form journalism and in-depth content detached from the typical breaking news cycle. The site, created by Wijnberg and Momkai founder Harald […]

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