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Three quarters of participants want to control the authoritative source of their content. Three quarters said that having creative control over their self-expression through appearance of their content is one of the main motivations for publishing on their own site. Participants feel empowered by the ability to archive their content for life, or remove content from their own space as they like (persistence vs. ephemerality).
Social Web in the Wild
dr.amy.gy
In talking of society as a whole, in seeking to govern the economy as a whole, both politicians and technocrats are believed to have “lost touch” with how it feels to be a single citizen in particular.
How Statistics Lost Their Power – And Why We Should Fear What Comes Next | William Davies
theguardian.com
Samsung’s approach is based on a measure called pulse transit time, which is the time between the contraction of the heart and when the pulse arrives at a particular body part, like the wrist. It’s correlated with blood pressure.
Why Smartwatch-Measured Blood Pressure Still Isn’t ‘Ready for Primetime’
theverge.com
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