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Best Gifts for Cyclists That Will Really Get Used

CNET: “There are a lot of specialized pieces of equipment that most cyclists prefer to pick out themselves, so buying gifts for them can be a difficult endeavor that leads friends and family with trinkets left to give as gifts. As someone who has more than one quirky T-shirt identifying me as a cyclist, please …

Subjects: Internet

No, Remote Employees Aren’t Becoming Less Engaged

Harvard Business Review: “…To more deeply explore the nature of how remote collaboration is changing over time, we gathered metadata from all Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex meetings (involving webcams on and/or off) from 10 large global organizations (seven of which are Fortune 500 firms) spanning a variety of fields, including technology, health care, energy, …

Subjects: Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 10, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 10, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, EU Data Protection, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

How publishers are learning to create and distribute news on TikTok

Reuters Institute: “TikTok is currently one of the world’s fastest-growing social networks with its addictive algorithm surfacing an endless stream of short, entertaining videos. Until recently the network had a reputation built almost exclusively on fast-moving, funny or musical memes, but stories such as Black Lives Matter, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine …

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

Social Media Seen as Mostly Good for Democracy Across Many Nations, But U.S. is a Major Outlier

“As people across the globe have increasingly turned to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and other platforms to get their news and express their opinions, the sphere of social media has become a new public space for discussing – and often arguing bitterly – about political and social issues. And in the mind of many analysts, social …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

The Murky Path To Becoming a New York Times Best Seller

Esquire: “No one outside The New York Times knows exactly how its best sellers are calculated—and the list of theories is longer than the actual list of best sellers. In The New York Times’ own words, “The weekly book lists are determined by sales numbers.” It adds that this data “reflects the previous week’s Sunday-to-Saturday …

Subjects: Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Tracking Social Media Bans

Center for Data Innovation: “Researchers at Surfshark, a cybersecurity company based in the Netherlands, have created a dataset tracking governments that have imposed restrictions on Internet service or social media companies from 2015 to the present. For each restriction, the dataset contains the dates, duration, affected population, available context, and notes on the restricted platforms …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Books of the Year 2022

“Every year, The White Review asks friends and contributors what books they’ve enjoyed reading and rereading.” Please take some time to read this wide ranging, insightful group of recommendations, unlike other Best Books of the Year lists you may already have read.  Poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, new and old, books from writers around the world. …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries