A recent article on Search Engine Watch asks whether or not keyword tracking of Google search terms could predict who the next US president will be. The article looks at some regional and candidate name searches from Google Trends to get some insight into who the next president may be. So who will the next […]
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The rise in popularity of devices that locate where people are at any given time, like global positioning systems – GPS – are some of the best selling electronics tools ever. Cellphones now come with GPS chips. All of these search devices produce a lot of information that says something about how people travel and […]
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Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen recently signed into law revised and updated rules for the state’s public records policies. The new public records law puts the duties of Tennessee’s open records ombudsman into law and establishes a seven-day deadline for records custodians to respond to public records requests — or they need to explain why more […]
As social networks like Facebook and MySpace have become increasingly popular, more people are using them to search for and reconnect with past friends and classmates, while foregoing the traditional class reunions. A recent article on Courant.com observed that often times an online reunion with a former friend or classmates is easier than travelling to […]
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A judge in Viera, Florida has ordered two teenage boys to post an apology on video-sharing site YouTube.com as punishment for a drive-through window prank that led to battery and criminal mischief charges. The prank, called “fire in the hole”, occurred last July and involved fast-food employee Jessica Ceponis at a Taco Bell drive-through window. […]
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