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Everywhere around us we see evidence of chaos and upheaval in the media industry — newspapers laying off staff and even closing, advertising revenues continuing to decline, and so on. What can be done about this state of affairs? Media analyst and journalism professor Clay Shirky says not only is there nothing that can be done about it, but it may actually be a good thing, because it will help spur innovation. Let’s hope he is right, because there is plenty of chaos to go around.

In his post (on a blog that is almost defiantly old-school, with a default WordPress theme from about 2003), Shirky says that his thinking on the topic has been accelerated by wondering what he is going to tell his undergraduate journalism students about the industry they are planning to join when he starts teaching at New York University in the fall. The realization he has come to, he says, is that “the news” — broadly speaking — needs to be subsidized, cheap and free.

But how can it be all these things at once? And by subsidized, does Shirky mean government subsidies as some have recommended? As it turns out, he doesn’t. In many cases, he says, those subsidies may come from other lines of business (conferences, etc.), from donations — as with ProPublica and some other models such as The Guardian, which is supported by a trust fund — and from simple cost-cutting.

And what about the free part? Although Shirky doesn’t specifically deal with the idea of paywalls (an issue he has been skeptical about for some time), he makes the point that the news “needs to be free so that it will spread” — in other words, so that people will share it and distribute it in a variety of ways for nothing. And what about those media entities that decide to produce only what people will pay for directly, like Rupert Murdoch has done with the Times of London?

[C]reating a high-quality product for a group of loyal and passionate readers willing to pay for it certainly sounds like an interesting business to get into. It just doesn’t sound like the newspaper business.

As Shirky points out, the cost-cutting that makes the news cheap doesn’t just have to come from layoffs (of the kind that Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger referred to in his recent announcement of a “digital first” approach for the paper). Costs can also be reduced by using a variety of crowdsourcing tools and services to let readers and other interested individuals share the burden of producing the news, whether it’s through blogs or photo galleries or “citizen journalism” tools such as Tackable (interestingly, Shirky never once mentions AOL’s Patch and its hyper-local efforts).

The bottom line, Shirky seems to be saying, is that this environment of chaos isn’t just obvious or understandable but actually necessary, so that the industry can evolve — whether it wants to or not. In that sense, Shirky’s post strikes a similar note as one he wrote back in 2009, called “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,” in which he argued that everyone looking for a solution to the media industry’s problems is searching in vain, because there isn’t one. In other words, not only is there no single solution but most of the likely solutions are simply unknown.

That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place. The importance of any given experiment isn’t apparent at the moment it appears; big changes stall, small changes spread. Even the revolutionaries can’t predict what will happen.

The problem, as many including Shirky have described it, is that readers have never paid for the news content in newspapers — at best, they have “helped pay for the things that paid for the news.” And now advertisers are going elsewhere, including targeted websites and social networks, because they can reach the people they want directly and more cheaply. The access that newspapers used to control to those desirable readers is gone. And digital advertising may ultimately never fill the gap between the price that advertisers will pay for a print reader and what they will pay for an online one.

The ‘analog dollars to digital dimes’ problem doesn’t actually seem to be a problem. It seems to be a feature of reality. Digital revenue per head is not replacing lost print revenue and, barring some astonishment in the advertising market, it never will.

In general, Shirky’s point seems to be that innovation and experimentation needs to happen before anything becomes clear, and he is undoubtedly right on that score. Unfortunately, as I wrote recently, that kind of startup-style impulse is sorely lacking in most mainstream media entities, who are content to incrementally dip their toes into new media tools and projects without really trying too hard. Why do something radical when you can just put out an app and throw up a paywall?

It takes some guts for a media analyst and pundit to admit that he doesn’t have all the answers or solutions for the industry, but Shirky has always been better at that than some others of his ilk. And he does at least provide some hints about what he thinks will help while we figure out the answers — things like cost-cutting and crowdsourcing, for example, and just all-around experimentation. What’s really required, of course, is a rethinking of what being a news organization means in an age when real-time publishing is available to anyone, but unfortunately there is still far too little of that happening.

Post and thumbnail photos courtesy of Flickr user Mark Strozier

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Analytics are nothing new, but Hadoop had made organizations of all types realize they can analyze all their data and can do so using commodity servers with local storage. They can extract valuable business insights from sources like social media comments, web pages and server log files.

Because of its parallel nature and ability to scale across thousands of nodes, Hadoop makes short work of even terabytes of information that might have taken days to process using traditional methods. But not short-enough work for some situations.

Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata explained the current state of affairs in a recent article at The Register:

With the paths that go through Hadoop [at Yahoo!], the latency is about fifteen minutes. … [I]t will never be true real-time. It will never be what we call “next click,” where I click and by the time the page loads, the semantic implication of my decision is reflected in the page.

However, thanks to various Hadoop optimizations, complementary technologies and advanced algorithms, real-time analytics are becoming a real possibility. The goal for everyone seeking real-time analytics is to have their services act immediately — and intelligently — on information as it streams into the system.

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Yahoo itself is working on a couple of real-time analytics projects, including S4, which we’ve profiled here, and MapReduce Online. Appistry and Accenture teamed up late last year to create a product called Cloud MapReduce. DataStax’s Brisk Hadoop distribution analyzes and stores data within the same Cassandra NoSQL database on the same system, so applications can access and serve Hadoop-processed data much faster than using separate storage systems.

This week, a startup called HStreaming launched its eponymous product, which actually is based on Hadoop. Whereas Yahoo is focused on web behavior, HStreaming lays out the following examples in its press release:

Typical examples include location information, sensor data, or log files when the traditional model of store-and-process-later is not fast enough for such data volumes. Companies need to react promptly to sensor readings or analyze web logs as they are generated because that type of information becomes quickly obsolete.

Others are using real-time analysis to make targeted advertising bot instantaneous and super-efficient. I spoke yesterday with Eric Wheeler, founder and CEO of 33Across, a marketing platform that lets companies target potential customers based on those companies’ social graphs. Essentially, he explained, “We constantly re-score the brand graph to understand who are the best targets for that ad right now. We use social connections of that brand to know whom we should next target.”

In order to do this, 33Across maintains a “massive Hadoop implementation” complemented by machine-learning and predictive-analytics algorithms that has developed in house. Presumably, the data batch processed by and stored in the Hadoop cluster adds context to streaming data as it hits the 33Across system. The more data it has about a brand’s social graph, the better decision it can make on the fly.

Jeff Jonas, chief scientist of IBM’s Entity Analytics division and all-around big-data genius, analogizes this effect to putting to together a puzzle. The more pieces you have in place, the easier it is to figure out where the next piece goes. Within the context of IBM’s big data portfolio, for example, Hadoop helps companies learn their past, which helps real-time products such as InfoSphere Streams or Jonas’s Entity Analytics software analyze streaming data more accurately.

Real-time advertising was also the impetus behind Amazon.com’s recent partnership with Triggit. Amazon wants to use its data to make money by helping other web sites better target incoming visitors as they browse from site to site. Thanks to Triggit’s predictive algorithms and cookie-analysis system, “Amazon [can] show the right ads to the right users across nine ad exchanges and more than four million websites.”

If this all sounds like high computer science, it is. But the most interesting thing about it might be that it was hardly even possible a few years ago. According to Wheeler, the tools and best practices — and in some cases, the data — weren’t readily available until recently, so the evolution from batch processing to real-time processing has happened quickly.

But we’re only “in the first inning of a doubleheader,” he said, so real-time processing will only get better as data volumes increase and models get more finely tuned.

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The benefits of this approach to the supplier include maximising profits and giving the car a uniform look and feel, in terms of internal dashboards and light fittings however in some situations this is completely unnecessary. For example if your supplier ever tells you to get windscreen wipers only from them this is patently absurd. The aim of all this is for suppliers to keep the buyer locked into buying over priced replacement components from only them but this doesn’t have to be the case for the sensible consumer. Take windscreen wipers for example, go online and carry out a quick search, you will find many suppliers offering replacement wiper blades at a fraction of the charge of dealerships.

The is all thanks to the beggining of the web which has changed the way people buy stuff like wipers and put the power back into the hands of the shopper rather than the supplier who like to get people hooked and then jack up the cost like a common drug dealer. The best thing about the internet besides the ease of shopping for your wipers from home is that the international scope of the competition has forced unit charges down to very reasonable levels and the buyer can connect with some really good deals. I think that the way we are going now the hope of helping car manufactures to make standardised parts is a lost cause but perhaps with the increase of climate change and global warming the international community will be forced to act and force manufactures of cars and wipers to make their designs more compatible and to a stricter spec in order to decrease emissions. In doing so the components including wipers could all be made much more efficiently and ceaselessly and save on materials and energy, maybe in the far off future this will be a possibility but for now us consumers just have to grin and bear it as the car makers run rough shod over our wallets.

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Subsequently this time I in conjunction with the other higher authorities of the education department decided to get CCTV cameras installed in the examination centers to stop the disturbances which can take place for the sake of a handful of children who cheat in the examination and upset the honest children who besides appear for the exam on the same premises. This was without doubt the right resolution which we had taken in this term and it also proved very useful to us. Some children were caught cheating and copying and they were cautioned that they would not be allowed to appear for the next examination if they again try to cheat and copy during the exam time.

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The Linux Foundation is running a contest asking you, the Linux community, to “share with the public what a 30-60 second Linux-focused spot for the Super Bowl might look. … The submissions should aim to inspire people to use Linux, create conversations among the public, and convey the power and ideals of Linux.” The contest runs through April 4, 2010, and the winner will be selected by a combination of community vote and a panel of judges, including Andrew Morton, Linux kernel maintainer extraordinaire!

The winner of this year’s We Are Linux contest will get airfare and hotel for LinuxCon in Boston, plus a laptop pre-loaded with Linux.

Here’s last year’s winning video:

Report and information shape an indispensable part in all individuals’ life. They also serve as permanent evidence which can be used whenever needed. Shaping optimism and a glorious background for all is not far-off in this era of science and technology. We will be able to know about the responsibility in the direction of surveillance which has to be finished cautiously and skillfully if we are using gadgets like the Hidden cameras, the spy cameras, the nanny cameras or the CCTV camera.

A lot of time the information and the report which is gathered in the camera might as well act as proof against the culprits. Even the government on every occasion find it required are using the CCTV cameras where they feel surveillance and security is required in general and right away action can be taken against the criminals who try to spread terror among the residents the public and the semi public places like the auditoriums, the theaters, the banks, the shopping malls and a number of other places. Spy cameras are besides being used in all the business places for example cafes, restaurants, shops, hospitals and even at homes. New ideas, new solutions to problems and new ways of handling state of affairs s can be revealed with the help of the cameras.

I am the head of the educational department in one of the leading universities of the country}. It is really a tough time during the examination times. Hundreds of children appear for various examinations and many times it becomes too difficult to keep an eye each child who appears for the examination. Even though a lot of senior and the junior supervisors are selected for the supervisions, however still one mistake and the children do not miss a chance to take advantage of and copy from each other.

As a result this time I together with the other senior authorities of the education department decided to get CCTV cameras installed in the examination centers to prevent the disturbances which can happen for the sake of a handful of children who cheat in the examination and bother the honest children who as well appear for the exam on the same place. This was certainly the correct choice which we had taken in this term and it as well proved very helpful to us. A few children were caught cheating and copying and they were warned that they would not be allowed to appear for the next day examination if they again try to cheat and copy during the exam time.

The children got aware that they were being observed through the surveillance cameras which were installed in the examination centers. As a result this prohibited the children to copy in the examinations and subsequently all the other examinations went on honestly.

Times have changed and thanks to the internet, people are closer now than ever before. But there are risks involved when going online. Online identity theft is the predominant way people become internet identity theft victims.

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Where online identity theft is concerned, you can never be too sure about the information you are receiving or sending out. An identity thief will go to great lengths to steal your identity.

Some create fake websites that look like the websites you typically visit. Some even set up viruses so they can gain access to your computer. There are even some identity theft victims that have had their personal information sold by a trusted company.

Preventing identity theft online can be difficult but it is not impossible. It does take awareness and it does take diligence. You have to be a bit jaded with everything you do online. This is a sad state of affairs but it is absolutely true.

You never know how secure your personal information actually is. The identity theft cases that have occurred due to online intrusions are pretty serious but most could have been prevented with a little bit of caution.

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Identity theft solutions are available if you know where to look. The first step is making sure that your computer is secure. This means buying and installing trusted security software to protect report identity theft data and will prevent outside intruders from gaining access to your computer’s hard drive.

Most identity theft victims discover the hard way that their computers were not secure. Another issue is going to unsecured websites and entering in personal information, such as credit card numbers. If you are not sure of the website, then do not give them your financial information.

Will online identity theft ever happen to you? It is very possible. Even with high tech software encryptions, website verification and security, it can still occur. The identity thieves will just try different tactics. Sometimes they will be successful and other times they will be thwarted.

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Preventing identity theft is ultimately your responsibility. You can do your part and protect your information as best possible. If you take enough precautions, you can make sure your information stays in your hands and not in someone else’s.