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In a followup to my last post on efforts to map the news, comes a Slashdot post about Buzztracker. A neat project called Buzztracker.org has been mining Google News for over a year and keeping track of relationships between geographic locations mentioned in articles. The results are some really cool maps that actually seem to [...]

Mark Liberman, commenting on a story that the FAA is considering lifting the ban on in-flight cell phone use, points out that the problem is not that there will be more conversation on the airplanes, but the specific nature of the conversations: As I’ve observed before, there’s something funny about this. People do still have [...]