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Tracking the mood of the nation via Twitter…

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Tech Times: Media Coverage of Technology

via pewresearch.org This is very interesting research into media coverage of technology. You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you’re interested in learning more…

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The Rise of an Apps-Based Culture

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Facebook Mobile Dominates The Competition

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Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits

Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. Set goals. Set boundaries. Do not bribe (except in emergencies). And check out the classroom. [...]

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Ashton Kutcher Has Little Twitter Influence

Image via Wikipedia A study conducted at Northwestern University determined that celebrities like Ashton Kutcher with millions of Twitter followers are mostly ignored on the social media site, resulting in very little if any influence. When the researchers applied their mathematical algorithm to the countless tweets that appear on Twitter each day, they found that [...]

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What do the latest social media stats mean for your business?

Image by the tartanpodcast via Flickr A global business I’m working with is run by a very successful woman who is rarely in her office–or in her home state, for that matter.  She spends a large percentage of her time developing relationships with her clients in other parts of the world and making them wildly [...]

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Does the internet make you happy?

Apparently so say the Brits… “There are those who believe that too much time spent on the Internet makes people less social and causes them to lose touch with the real world, but a new British study released today found that access to the Internet and the web, and especially to social networks such as [...]

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We Only Trust Experts If They Agree With Us

We think we trust experts.   But a new study finds that what really influences our opinions, more than listening to any expert, is our own beliefs. Researchers told study subjects about a scientific expert who accepted climate change as real. Subjects who thought that commerce can be environmentally damaging were ready to accept the [...]

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