Blog 6: July 24

Seife: I found ithilarious that "bacon enthusiast" as part of a Twitter bio could be a good indicator if a profile is fake or not. But it makes sense that someone would set up a computer program to include things like bacon and alcohol, which are undeniably popular.
The other funny aspect of reading this article was that I read an article online 10 minutes before starting blog reading for Bib that was about how a lot of the profiles on the dating site Tinder are actually bots.
I enjoyed the radio clip because I like listening to Science Friday. Seife had a good point that nowadays, anyone can publish their own books, whereas in the past, publishing was a barrier to dissemination. Also, the term "sock puppet" seems useful to describe a fake commenter.
As a regular user of IMSLP, the most important thing for me to remember is that the editions available are not the most recent or the most scholarly editions. It is worth going to the library and looking at a newer edition to compare it with whatever is available on IMSLP. Also, the search features can be hard to use, so as the author suggested, it's best to just go to the composer page.