Day archives: July 1st, 2020

Goodbye World – An Innovative Approach to Estate Planning

Via LLRX – Goodbye World – An Innovative Approach to Estate Planning – Shellie Steele Reed is a non-traditional law student with experience in local government. This paper was written for Dennis Kennedy’s Delivering Legal Services course at Michigan State University College of Law (MSU). Shellie’s experience living in ten states and in Japan led …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Millions of Americans Depend on Libraries for Internet. Now They’re Closed

The MarkUp: “Libraries are still just about the only place in America anyone can go and sit and use a computer and the internet without buying anything. All over the country, library closures during the pandemic have highlighted just how many people have no dependable source of internet on their own. According to a Pew …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management

Social Media: Threat to or Tool of Authoritarianism?

HBR – “…Given the growing weight of social media’s influence on society, the key question is whether social media will become a sentinel against systematic oppression and injustice, effectively posing a serious challenge to authoritarian regimes. In the case of China, while social media may not have the power to cause a regime change, it …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Health Care, Social Media

Supreme Court says generic domains like booking.com can be trademarked

ars technica: “The US Patent and Trademark Office erred by finding the term booking.com was too generic for trademark protection, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. Trademark law prohibits anyone from registering generic terms that describe a class of products or services. Anyone can start a store company called “The Wine Company,” but they can’t …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark, Search Engines

How to Make Your Tech Last Longer

The New York Times – In a pandemic-induced recession, it’s more important than ever to take care of our smartphones and other gadgets. “…If we put a small amount of time into caring for our gadgets, they can last indefinitely. We’d also be doing the world a favor. By elongating the life of our gadgets, …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

You Purged Racists From Your Website? Great, Now Get to Work

Wired: “The Covid-19 infodemic taught social media giants like YouTube and Reddit an important lesson: They can—and must—take action to control the content on their sites. For those who follow the politics of platforms, Monday’s great expulsion of malicious content creators was better late than never. For far too long, a very small contingent of …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Legal Research, Social Media