Read the article about information mining below. Discuss your opinions of the legalization of mining for physician data. From a patient’s perspective and a pharmaceutical employee’s perspective, how would you feel about pharmaceutical companies mining for physician data? What ethical issues are there? Review the ask a ninja trailer for the ask a ninja channel and check out some of the more popular videos. Discuss:

1) why it might be so popular,

2) why do people assume that dressing as a ninja makes someone knowledge able about all subjects,

3) what improper conclusion might be drawn about pages with very high view numbers?

Read the weblog below about facebook and crawling. Discuss crawling and robots.

What does the author imply when he said facebook’s legal position could “cripple the web” if others adopted the same position?

What are your opinions of his concluding remarks?