A community for those who like to be alone | TED Blog

http://blog.ted.com/a-community-for-those-who-like-to-be-alone/

“I think the more access introverts have to different ideas and shared connections about our personalities, the more comfortable we will be in our own skin,” she said. “I love the idea of someone connecting with my story and maybe feeling a little more normal knowing that we have shared experiences.”

Mobile Messaging and Social Media 2015 | Pew Research Center

http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/08/19/mobile-messaging-and-social-media-2015/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=3537213a03-8_19_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-3537213a03-399726609

Amazon is not a ‘soulless, dystopian workplace,’ CEO says

The other side to the story…

http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-ceo-says-company-is-not-a-soulless-dystopian-workplace/

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace – The New York Times

VERY long, but quite interesting. If you make it far enough, see the discussion of the Anytime Feedback tool.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0

NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily | US news | The Guardian

No matter where you sit on this… Given that this is descriptive data about a call, are they just looking for patterns or are they building a profile pattern? There’s not enough computing power to parse actual conversations in bulk.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order

Challenged by Instructor, M.P.A. Students Collect Foodbank Donations « August 6, 2015

Dr Nicula’s summer Community Participation students!

https://www.odu.edu/about/odu-publications/insideodu/2015/08/06/kudos1

Common Mistakes in Polling and Poll Results – Sociological Images

A somewhat amusing cartoon for the current election cycle…

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/08/02/common-mistakes-in-polling-and-poll-results/

Climate Change Seen as Top Global Threat | Pew Research Center

http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/07/14/climate-change-seen-as-top-global-threat/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=4866d8ba86-July_15_2015_weekly_newsletter7_15_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-4866d8ba86-399726609

"In advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December, many publics around the world name global climate change as a top threat, according to a new Pew Research Center survey measuring perceptions of international challenges. This is particularly true in Latin America and Africa, where majorities in most countries say they are very concerned about this issue. But as the Islamic militant group ISIS maintains its hold in Iraq and Syria and intensifies its grisly public executions, Europeans and Middle Easterners most frequently cite ISIS as their main concern among international issues."