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Imagine Embedding RFID Chips in Soldiers: Medicine or Surveillance?

By Barbara K. Iverson On 05/07/2012 · Leave a Comment

An update from Katherine Albrecht who writes about threats and dangers from what she calls “spy chips” or RFID chips. This one has a basis in a government report from DARPA.

The possible pro: doctors could use a chip that was [...]

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Don’t Keep Readers Out, Make Them Want to Come in

By Barbara K. Iverson On 03/27/2012 · Leave a Comment

According to a Guardian executive, thanks in part to the growth of the Facebook app, social sharing is now close to generating as much traffic to the paper’s website as search does — a fairly incredible statistic, considering that social produced just 2 percent of the traffic to [...]

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Sy Bounds got some Video of Social Media Workshop

By Barbara K. Iverson On 03/22/2012 · Leave a Comment

I presented a workshop on Social Media 2.0 for people who work at nonprofits recently, and Sy Bounds was kind enough to video some of the session and share them with the world. Here is a link to his tumblr and some of the video are viewable below. Contact me if you would like a [...]

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