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NewsSocial media a 'primary source' of intel, says FBI
Count the FBI as yet another federal agency seeking to refine raw social media into intelligence gold. Among the things the FBI says could be extracted from the mountain of tweet streams, blogs and Read more...
Swearing on Twitter could be sign of coming protests
Increased swearing on Twitter could be a sign of societal discontent, says a study from the Rand Corp that analyzed an archive of Tweets from 2009 with the hash tag #IranElection. In a report Read more...
Alec Ross: No sympathy for al Shabaab Twitter account
Government control of the Internet is a losing proposition and al Shabaab deserves "no sympathy" from efforts to remove it from Twitter, said a State Department official during a Jan. 10 online talk. Read more...
Twitter enables global State Department briefings
During the month of January the State Department will take five questions from the international Twitter community every Friday after its daily press briefing. The department fielded questions during Read more...
MIT discovers secret of human motivation: Money
In an effort to better understand how information spreads across a population, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency challenged teams of researchers to find the coordinates of 10 red weather Read more...
VanRoekel unveils 'Future First' concept
"Cloud first" was just the first in a series of first principles to be unleashed on federal information technology, according to Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel, who spoke Oct. 25 Read more...
Berry: USAJobs.gov relaunch 'highly complex'
USAJobs.gov has been riddled with problems since the Office of Personnel Management unveiled its website redesign Oct. 11, but OPM Director John Berry says OPM will continue working to address Read more...
'Snapshots' cannot accurately archive gov 2.0 content, says Navy official
Simply capturing an image of social media content hosted by third parties isn't a sufficient archiving strategy, says Charley Barth, director of records at the Department of the Navy. Since October Read more...
Paper asserts social media was central to Arab Spring
Social media played a "central role" in protests that drove entrenched rulers out of power in Egypt and Tunisia, says a study from the University of Washington. The paper, principally authored by Read more...
Disaster response increasingly linked to social media
Social and mobile technology are increasingly important during ongoing disasters, according to a new survey (.pdf) from the Red Cross. Eighty percent of the general public say national emergency Read more...
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