Day archives: November 3rd, 2020

Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog

Freakonomics: “As beloved and familiar as they are, we rarely stop to consider life from the dog’s point of view. That stops now. In this latest installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we discuss Inside of a Dog with the cognitive scientist (and dog devotee) Alexandra Horowitz. Listen and subscribe to our podcast at Apple …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

How might we surface the nonverbal cues otherwise invisible in virtual meetings?

“Here’s something we’re still struggling with at Filament: How might we surface the nonverbal cues otherwise invisible in virtual meetings? The ability to see people and observe them observing us during work builds a framework for a lot of important parts of teamwork. It helps us establish trust, gain commitment, confirm understanding and consensus, or …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

ABA Legal Fact Check details workings of the Electoral College

“An ABA Legal Fact Check on the Electoral College, which explores the history and workings of the constitutional body that formally elects the next U.S. president, is available here to assist reporters and editors working on post-election stories. In addition, the ABA Standing Committee on Election Law has subject matter experts available to help reporters …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

Stop. Don’t Share That Election Rumor.

The New York Times – How to handle online voting misinformation or isolated cases of election problems. “Election Day is filled with unknowns. One thing we can count on like clockwork is seeing some of the familiar flavors of false or misleading information circulating online. My colleague Sheera Frenkel wrote that Americans on Tuesday may …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Election 2020: How to spot misinformation while you wait for results

CNET – “As expected, Tuesday night didn’t bring a final result in the presidential election, so we’re still targets for people trying to confuse the issue. The 2020 presidential election wasn’t over when the polls closed on Tuesday night. Calling the winner — President Donald Trump or challenger Joe Biden — is taking longer than …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

How Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit are handling the election

Ars Technica – The only thing messier than November 3 on social media might be November 4. “At long last, we are here at the deadline: after endless months, with roughly 100 million early votes cast, Election Day is finally upon us. There is very little we can project with certainty about the outcomes, except …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Tracking COVID-19: U.S. Public Health Surveillance and Data

CRS report via LC – Tracking COVID-19: U.S. Public Health Surveillance and Data, November 2, 2020: “Public health surveillance, or ongoing data collection, is an essential part of public health practice. Particularly during a pandemic, timely data are important to understanding the epidemiology of a disease in order to craft policy and guide response decision …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Taming Complexity

HBR – “In business, complexity gets bad press. That’s not surprising. It can be cognitively demanding to understand how a system or organization made up of many very different interconnected elements actually works. But the fact that such systems or organizations are difficult to understand doesn’t make them inherently bad. In addition to its more …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

8 new uses for your old smartphone

The Verge – Just because you got a nifty new phone doesn’t mean you have to ditch your old one: “The excitement of getting a new phone is often tempered by nagging regret. A lot of times, it’s not like there was anything really wrong with the old phone (unless there was — a bulging …

Subjects: Knowledge Management