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Aaron Sorkin needs to clear a space on his cluttered mantle. The king of the walk-and-talk recently signed on to adapt Walter Isaacsons Steve Jobs biography and considering how many awards The Social Network won, its safe to guess that Sorkins next peek behind the computer screen will be similarly celebrated.

But even though Sorkin snagged an Oscar for writing about the technorati, its still deeply weird that he somehow became Hollywoods go-to tech biopic scribe. Sorkin has long had a love-hate relationship with computers accent on the hate.

After getting into a string of online arguments with Television Without Pity posters in the early 00s, Sorkin wrote an episode of The West Wing that featured a subplot about how horrible Internet users are. (Josh to C.J., on a certain site: Its a crazy place. Its got this dictatorial leader who Im sure wears a muumuu and chain smokes Parliaments. C.J. to Josh: The people on these sites, theyre the cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest!) An episode of Studio 60 also revolved partially around the characters reactions to a critical blogger; as one opined, Its like weve all spent the last five years living in a Roger Corman film called Revenge of the Hack. Another dismissed the blogger as someone with a freezer full of Jenny Craig who sits surrounded by her five cats. Even the new trailer for Sorkins upcoming HBO drama, The Newsroom, includes a moment in which Jeff Daniels character reacts with disdain when Dev Patels character mentions his blog.

And then there are the various Internet bashing comments Sorkin himself has made over the years. Heres a sampling of his greatest hits:

One of the things I find troubling about the Internet, as great a resource tool as it is, and as nice as it is that we can all communicate with each other, and that everybody has a voice the thing is, everybodys voice oughtnt be equal. Chicago Tribune, January 19, 2007

And the Internet [doesnt help]its a bronchial infection on the First Amendment. Nothing has done more to make us dumber or meaner than the anonymity of the Internet. GQ, August 12, 2008

Theres just too much bad information getting out there, and I have to believe thats mostly the fault of the Internet, which isnt held to any standards of accuracyI have to tell you, I dont feel like I had any trouble getting information before. Every morning two newspapers were literally thrown at my house. All I had to do was open the door and get them. Anyway, Im not quite getting the Internet. New York, September 17, 2010

You are witnessing mad men and mad womenIt only takes five [comments] before you find somebody with a severe mental disorder. Vulture, September 30, 2010

I do think that socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality. The Colbert Report, September 30 2010

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Aaron Sorkin hates the Internet. Why does he keep writing about tech geniuses?

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The collection of personal information on the Internet has been the focus of considerable public debate, litigation and legislation. This controversial area of law has not been explored in an in-depth, comprehensive manner until now.

Filled with scholarly analysis and pragmatic guidance, Internet and Online Privacy: A Legal and Business Guide addresses the state of the law of online and Internet privacy and its historical origins. It examines enforcement activity by the Federal Trade Commission, federal and state legislation and regulation, the U.S.-European Commission Safe Harbor Agreement, as well as some of the leading lawsuits in which claims of invasion of privacy on the Internet have been asserted. The book also compares U.S. law with approaches taken by our principal trading partners around the world. Readers will appreciate the authors' helpful practical advice on such matters as: how to draft a privacy policy to suit your company's needs; how to address privacy issues that are likely to arise in the workplace; and how technology can help you deal with these issues.

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ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) In a new study analyzing Internet usage among college students, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have found that students who show signs of depression tend to use the Internet differently than those who show no symptoms of depression.

Using actual Internet usage data collected from the university's network, the researchers identified nine fine-grained patterns of Internet usage that may indicate depression. For example, students showing signs of depression tend to use file-sharing services more than their counterparts, and also use the Internet in a more random manner, frequently switching among several applications.

The researchers' findings provide new insights on the association between Internet use and depression compared to existing studies, says Dr. Sriram Chellappan, an assistant professor of computer science at Missouri S&T and the lead researcher in the study.

"The study is believed to be the first that uses actual Internet data, collected unobtrusively and anonymously, to associate Internet usage with signs of depression," Chellappan says. Previous research on Internet usage has relied on surveys, which are "a far less accurate way" of assessing how people use the Internet, he says.

"This is because when students themselves reported their volume and type of Internet activity, the amount of Internet usage data is limited because people's memories fade with time," Chellappan says. "There may be errors and social desirability bias when students report their own Internet usage." Social desirability bias refers to the tendency of survey respondents to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.

Chellappan and his fellow researchers collected a month's worth of Internet data for 216 Missouri S&T undergraduate students. The data was collected anonymously and unobtrusively, and students involved in the study were assigned pseudonyms to keep their identities hidden from the researchers.

Before the researchers collected the usage data from the campus network, the students were tested to determine whether they showed signs of depression. The researchers then analyzed the usage data of the study participants. They found that students who showed signs of depression used the Internet much differently than the other study participants.

Chellappan and his colleagues found that depressed students tended to use file-sharing services, send email and chat online more than the other students. Depressed students also tended to use higher "packets per flow" applications, those high-bandwidth applications often associated with online videos and games, than their counterparts.

Students who showed signs of depression also tended to use the Internet in a more "random" manner -- frequently switching among applications, perhaps from chat rooms to games to email. Chellappan thinks that randomness may indicate trouble concentrating, a characteristic associated with depression.

The randomness stood out to Chellappan after his graduate student, Raghavendra Kotikalapudi, examined the "flow duration entropy" of students' online usage. Flow duration entropy refers to the consistency of Internet use during certain periods of time. The lower the flow duration entropy, the more consistent the Internet use.

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As Googles Penguin update is having its fun, Bing has been relatively calm. There has not been a major update in a few months and everything seems perfect. Well, everything used to be perfect.

Theres a member on Webmaster World that noticed Bing was indexing fewer pages on his site. This wasnt a small change either. Bing used to index 500,000 URLs on the site, but was now only indexing 350,000. Thats a worrying change. The question now is whether or not Bing pushed some kind of update or if its just not indexing like it used to.

Search Engine Roundtable jumped on the case. They began to look at their own indexed pages and found the numbers to be fairly consistent. There we no major drops. OK, so what about impressions and clicks? They found that those numbers had exponentially increased. The crawl rate seemed to be normal as well.

So whats up with the guy who thinks Bing is not doing its fair share in indexing? We get a better idea by looking at the responses to his original post. Some Webmasters have shared in the original posters pain by saying their indexed pages have seen similar drops.

A later post sheds more light on the event though. They say that the people at Bing told them that all of their URLs are being indexed. Its just a problem with those numbers not showing up in results. Even so, thats a pretty serious problem if the Bing Webmaster Tools show sites being delisted or URLs no longer being indexed.

Weve reached out to Microsoft for comment and well update this story if we hear back.

Have you seen any changes in the amount of sites being indexed by Bing? I find it highly unlikely that Bing has rolled out an update, but the impending release of the new Bing may be having an effect on indexing for certain sites.

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