Where are all these fracking earthquakes coming from? The correlation between natural gas and shifting plates. Also, Agent Twitter and Double-O-Social Media: predicting riots, epidemics and other social phenomena through aggregate online data. Plus, World of Adcraft: the growing gimmicks of big-budget video game advertisements. And an interview with Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke. His latest novel is Damned.
WoM for Saturday, November 12th, 2011
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