Rich DeMuro

Tech Guy and Jersey Boy Living in the City of Angels (and traffic)
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I overheard my 15 year old daughter say to my 11 year old daughter to never use Wikipedia when getting information for school reports. When I asked her where she heard this, she said that one of her teachers' told her that anybody can go onto Wikipedia and put any information they want, even if it's not accurate. I found this sort of weird since I had never heard such a thing. Is this true?
richdemuro richdemuro Said:

Your 15 year old is correct.  Anyone is free to edit Wikipedia. That doesn’t necessarily mean the information isn’t accurate, but schools generally frown upon relying on the facts contained within it. I always learned as a journalist to double check facts against various sources, which is probably a good idea in general.

More info about the Wikipedia editing process:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction

This handy little app scans your email & social networks to come up with the most thorough address book you’ve ever seen. Want to find some obscure person you emailed a few years back? It can do that. It can also tell you who you email and interact with the most.

The election info-graphic to end all election info-graphics.

(via US Elections 2012 (by Socialbakers))

This smoke detector automatically calls the fire department. Good for peace of mind, not good if you have a lot of false alarms from burning food!

Margaritaville is now on Facebook. Commence time wasting, and margarita consumption!

It’s Clean Out Your Inbox Week. Here are tips to get you started.

This tool can help you see what Google knows about you. You’ve probably heard that Google is stream-lining it’s privacy policy. Basically this means what it learns about you inside YouTube it can use to serve up ads through one of its other products, like web search. This tool can give you a little snapshot of Google’s ad profile of you - you must be logged into Google for this to work.

Now this is a TV setup!

Tech Report Video: A new robot-assisted surgery is helping doctors perform better hip replacements.

More information:

http://www.makosurgical.com/patients/surgeon-locator.html

[Flash 10 is required to watch video]

Did you hear it? Forgot to silence my phone this morning…a little Tweetbot sound snuck its way on-air!