Day archives: September 5th, 2018

25 of the New Words Merriam-Webster Is Adding to the Dictionary in 2018

Mentalfloss: “If you don’t spend most of your time on the internet, it can be hard to keep up with the evolving lingo of the digital age. Luckily, the editors at Merriam-Webster have done the hard work of keeping track of the most important new terms to know: The American institution has added over 840 …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Knowledge Management

Many Facebook users don’t understand how the site’s news feed works

“A sizable majority of U.S. adults use Facebook and most of its users get news on the site. But a new Pew Research Center survey finds that notable shares of Facebook users ages 18 and older lack a clear understanding of how the site’s news feed operates, feel ordinary users have little control over what appears …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, RSS, Social Media

Google Dataset Search Beta

Google Blog: “What is Dataset Search? Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful. Datasets and related data tend to be spread across multiple data repositories on the web. In many cases, information about these datasets is neither linked nor has …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Pew – Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

“Just over half of Facebook users ages 18 and older (54%) say they have adjusted their privacy settings in the past 12 months, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Around four-in-ten (42%) say they have taken a break from checking the platform for a period of several weeks or more, while around a …

Subjects: Censorship, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Social Media

Facebook, Twitter Execs Admit Failures, Warn of ‘Overwhelming’ Threat to Elections

Gizmodo: “Openly recognizing their companies’ past failures in rare displays of modesty, Facebook and Twitter executives touted new efforts to combat state-sponsored propaganda across their platforms before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, acknowledging that the task is often “overwhelming” and proving a massive drain on their resources.  Despite frequent and contradictory remarks by President …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

GPO issues digital version of official directory of 115th Congress

“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) makes available the authentic, digital version of the official directory of the 115th Congress. Mandated by Title 44 of the U.S. Code, the Congressional Directory is prepared by GPO under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP). More than just a guide to Members, committees, and officials …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research