Jeroen Rijskamp
|
18 September 2011, 9:18 pm
|
tags: AIDS, algorithm, bloggers, Blogs, CIA, database, FBI, HIV, intelligence, lovers, loyalty card, mathematician, micro targeting, monitoring, numerati, spam, sploggers, voters, workers, workplace

Stephen Baker’s The Numerati, published in 2008, tells the story of our modern world’s “binarization;” how every individual is deduced to ones and zeroes through the trails of data we leave behind which are consequently gathered, analyzed and categorized by number crunchers, better known as data miners, in order to predict behavior. The…
Email has been great within the workplace. That is, until you start to receive hundreds of irrelevant emails a day. Then, you take one day off, and the next morning your inbox is a dog’s breakfast. So, instant messaging was introduced to larger companies ca. 2003 with a lot of
Twitter is easy. When you want to start tweeting you only have to enter your e-mail address, think of a screen name and you immediately can start tweeting your every thought. You can make the choice of starting to follow other people on Twitter and you again will easily find out that almost every celebrity and