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Ratings are never easy to calculate. Especially on the web, where visits to sites can last mere seconds. But now Nielsen has released internet ratings that include “total minutes” and “total sessions.” Abbey Klassen, writer for Advertising Age, explains who benefits from the new system.
A new website, makes it easy for anyone to search "DC Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s phone records. When ABC News producers had exclusive control of the list, they decided it wasn't news. So should the records be readily accessible? The site’s co-creator Daniel Silverman discusses the ethics of transparency.
Thanks to Google, we now have instant access to detailed photographic images of nearly every street in New York, Las Vegas, Miami and San Francisco. Tech and business consultant David Evans weighs in on whether “street view” is expanding our world or paving the way for Big Brother.
In viewership terms, Google-owned YouTube is now competitive with TV networks. But with new media comes new questions, like how will Google define the separation between editorial and ad content? Political analystPeter Leyden says the answer is being determined as the campaign itself unfolds.
Last month, a disagreement between Estonia and Russia resulted in a debilitating attack on some of Estonia’s most-used government, banking and media websites. The attackers remain anonymous and many suspect Russia. Is it cyber-warfare? Arbor Networks' senior security researcher Jose Nazario explains.
OTM producer Nazanin Rafsanjani is mortified that a letter she wrote when she was 19 is part of her permanent profile online. Despite her best efforts, it won’t go away. New York editor at large Emily Nussbaum offers some perspective on Nazanin’s web woes.
From bomb scares to stolen radioactive material to rebel attacks, alarming things happen around the world, all day, every day. Morgan Clements, founder and publisher of the Global Incident Map, talks about why it’s important to map them.
To help people visualize the genocide in Darfur, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum partnered with Google Earth to create a detailed map of the genocide there. Google Maps' John Hanke discusses the mechanics of bringing Darfur closer to home.
