http://blogcritics.org/scitech/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:26:42 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software 372123http://www.feedburner.com http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~r/bc/scitech_satire/~3/451756808/072642.php Robert K. Blechman Simple steps to avoid an epidemic of cognitive activity.<br/> An article in today&#39;s New York Times discusses how Google queries can anticipate the rise in reported flu outbreaks and beat the forecasts of the CDC, sometimes by weeks at a time.A similar technique could be used to track intellectual activity through Google queries. A recent article in The Atlantic suggested that using Google is making us...<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=c3def03dc6013d2184a2dbd5191c7b52" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c3def03dc6013d2184a2dbd5191c7b52" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~f/bc/scitech_satire?a=1SAoN"><img src="http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~f/bc/scitech_satire?i=1SAoN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~f/bc/scitech_satire?a=6p9UN"><img src="http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~f/bc/scitech_satire?i=6p9UN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~f/bc/scitech_satire?a=wpU6N"><img src="http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~f/bc/scitech_satire?i=wpU6N" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~r/bc/scitech_satire/~4/451756808" height="1" width="1"/> Sci/Tech 85300@blogcritics.org Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:26:42 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/11/13/072642.php