Stories based on scrapers

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• “After I published that story, I began wondering if there were other homes in the country like it. I asked Maynor if there was a way to find out and he said he could build a program that would crawl through a public Maxmind database of mapped IP addresses to see if there were physical locations that appeared repeatedly. Within a couple of days, he had sent me a spreadsheet with thousands of home addresses along with the number of IP addresses attached to them. The Taylor home was at the very top of the list; the 600 million IP addresses attached to the home were an order of magnitude higher than at any other location. (The Atlanta home was number 865 on the list.)” http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/

  

  Paul Bradshaw

  Apr 14, 2016
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  Seb Coe promised an 'uplifting torch relay to inspire a generation'. So are these really the role models to do it? | The Independent

  The Independent - Tom Peck

  Giving someone a chance to carry the Olympic torch was supposed to be the ultimate reward for their generosity and selflessness in their local …

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  How Netflix Reverse-Engineered Hollywood

  The Atlantic - By Alexis C. Madrigal

  To understand how people look for movies, the video service created 76,897 micro-genres. We took the genre descriptions, broke them down to their key words … and built our own new-genre generator. If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of …

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  Radar - O’Reilly

  oreilly.com

  Now, next, and beyond: Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology

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  Inside the Evolving Hotel Bathroom

  The New York Times - By Stephanie Rosenbloom

  I check into a lot of hotels — and one of the first things I check out is the guest-room bathroom. From no-frills to cushy, cramped to roomy, a hotel bathroom can be an oasis or an eyesore. There are those that are cheap and cheerful, and those that appear to be lit for police interrogations. …