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How to download a backup copy of your Twitter data (or deactivate your account)

Ars Technica: “Big changes are underway at Twitter as we speak—including new leadership—and some people are nervous about what the future might bring for the social network. Things may end up completely fine, but even in tranquil times, it’s good to know how to get a copy of your Twitter data for local safekeeping—or to …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Busload of Books bringing inspiration to the classroom one stop at a time

Mitchell Republic: “Matthew Swanson received a positive review Monday morning from one of the L.B. Williams Elementary School students who had just attended an assembly with the children’s book author. “He came up to me after the first assembly and said, ‘Mister, for some reason, you inspired me,’” Swanson laughed. “It was the best.” Swanson …

Subjects: Education, Libraries, Transportation

PubPeer – The Online Journal Club

“The PubPeer Foundation is a California-registered public-benefit corporation with 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in the United States. The overarching goal of the Foundation is to improve the quality of scientific research by enabling innovative approaches for community interaction. The bylaws of the Foundation establish pubpeer.com as a service run for the benefit of its readers and …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

What’s That Charge?!

“What’s That Charge is a bootstrapped, profitable startup founded in 2012 to help consumers better understand and organize the charges on their credit card and debit card statements. What’s That Charge serves hundreds of thousands of unique visitors every month in nine languages visiting us from nearly every country on earth. For when you can’t …

Subjects: E-Records, Financial System, Privacy

Visualizing Emotions at Work

Flowing Data, Nathan Yau: “Feelings at Work – We spend a lot of time working. It seems worth thinking about how we feel during all those hours. Work is one part of our lives, but it occupies a big chunk, which warrants thinking about how we feel while we work. If your job makes you …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

4 Types of Innovators Every Organization Needs

HBR: “How do you identify and empower innovators in your company? Collectively, we have spent over 40 years researching this question. Our research on innovation styles identifies and examines the different preferences and roles people take on when pursuing innovation. By understanding this concept, organizations can better identify where specific people are needed and who …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cybersecurity issues – October 30, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cybersecurity issues – October 30, 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 increasingly …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Records, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Thomson Reuters collected and leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data

cybernews: “Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format. Attackers could use the details for a supply-chain attack.  The Cybernews research team found that Thomson Reuters left at least three of its databases accessible for anyone to look at. One …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Everything dies, including information

MIT Technology Review – Digitization can help stem the tide of entropy, but it won’t stop it. ” Everything dies: people, machines, civilizations. Perhaps we can find some solace in knowing that all the meaningful things we’ve learned along the way will survive. But even knowledge has a life span. Documents fade. Art goes missing. …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Consumers Feel Worse Now Than They Did During Covid Lockdowns

WSJ [paywall]: Sentiment has fallen to levels typically associated with worse financial and economic conditions than today’s: “The University of Michigan survey of consumer sentiment measures how U.S. consumers feel about their personal finances, business conditions and buying conditions. Recent surveys have shown that consumers have rarely felt more downbeat about all of these measures. …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

8 Ways to Convince Your Organisation to Invest in Legal Tech

Artifical Lawyer: “All law firms and in-house legal functions know that legal tech is the future. Law is fundamentally about information – laws, precedents, documents – and therefore data. Apply tech to data to manage it efficiently and you give yourself and your clients an edge. But what technology? And once you find a solution, …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing