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Open Source News: Citizen Reporters Scrutinize News Narratives

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source News or Open Source Intelligence is a technique increasingly used by news organizations and the general public to produce reports and insights based on publicly available information. Citizen investigators are searching the web to find information which prove…

Data Decay: The Impact of Poor Data Quality can be Expensive

By Dick Weisinger

Data decay is the gradual loss of accuracy of stored data. A report from Biznology estimates that B2B data of things like titles, email addresses, and phone numbers change by as much as 5 percent monthly or more than 70…

Effective Decisions: Governments and Businesses Attempt to Persuade by ‘Nudging’

By Dick Weisinger

How can you make better decisions? Psychologists and Economists are particularly interested in how to answer that question and have studied possible decision-making strategies and their effectiveness as far back as the 1950’s. About 15 years ago, behaviorial theories came…

Linux: Efficiency and Performance from Kernel Customizations

By Dick Weisinger

Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is a virtual machine running inside the operating system kernel. Using eBPF, you can safely load programs into the kernel to customize kernel behavior. Historically, because the kernel is vital for security and stability, it…

Next-Generation Internet: Decentralized and Respect for Privacy: Solid

By Dick Weisinger

After more than thirty years of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is not happy with how things have worked out. Issues of privacy and lack of control of user data are two areas that…