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Thursday, May 10, 2007

New York Times to Datamine Online Readers

Just more than a year after The New York Times won a Pulitzer prize for uncovering rampant data mining of citizens by the government, Times executives announced to shareholders that it planned to start doing a little DATAMINING OF ITS OWN. The plan is to use sophisticated software to "determine hidden patterns of uses to our website" and better target online advertising.

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Blogger Unknown said...

Hey. Nice picture you chose. Just in case, you don't know who that is: it's bernhard kirsch from bodenstandig 2000 - a german 8bit / chiptune band. :)

Friday, May 11, 2007 5:11:00 AM  

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