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Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, Future Tense brings you the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules. From electronic privacy and digital democracy to spam and computer worms, Future Tense keeps you up to date on the rapidly changing world of technology.
Future Tense is heard in the United States during broadcasts of the CBC's As It Happens.
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A team of scientists at Yahoo Research studied the time of day that 125,000 students at U.S. and European universities sent e-mail. Yahoo research scientist Duncan Watts says people fall into one of two groups -- "day laborers" and "emailholics."
Also mentioned today:
Baiting Nigerian Scammers For Fun (Ars Technica)
10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media (Mashable)
Yahoo announced last week it would shut down its GeoCities personal website service later this year. Yahoo paid about $3 billion for the company in 1999.
Geocities allowed users to design personal websites. but the pioneering service has long since been eclipsed by blogs and social networks.
What will become of the million-plus GeoCities home pages out there? Yahoo is saying only that it will provide details later this summer on how customers can save their own data.
Jason Scott believes GeoCities deserves saving. Scott runs textfiles.com, a site devoted to computer history. He's lead organizer for a new group called the Archive Team, which is working to rescue a growing body of endangered Internet content, including GeoCities.
