Category «Internet»

The State of Work-Life Balance in Journalism

How journalists manage their professional and personal lives. Muck Rack’s first State of Work-Life Balance in Journalism report examines data from two surveys of nearly 1,800 journalists. The report looks at salary, access to mental health services and burnout among journalists. of journalists have access to mental health services at work: Less than 25% of …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Mirroring Your iPhone to Your Mac Is Awesome: Here’s How to Set It Up

MakeUseOf: Requirements for iPhone Mirroring Setting Up iPhone Mirroring Navigating Your iPhone on Your Mac ​​What I Use iPhone Mirroring For Key Takeaways iPhone Mirroring works between all iPhones and Macs that support iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, with the 2019 iMac being the only exception. You can click the iPhone icon in your Mac’s …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike

Via LLRX – How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike – Natural disasters have affected nearly 90 percent of U.S. counties since 2013, and while many households know about preparing emergency kits, a recent FEMA survey found a large drop in how many people are signed up to receive emergency …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, Education, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management

Expert Survey on the Global Information Environment 2024

“The global information environment is under significant pressure from the development of new technologies and shifting public policies. How do experts around the world perceive the varied features of, and threats to, the information environment in their countries of expertise? In June 2024, the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) surveyed 412 researchers from …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How Republican or Democratic is your name?

Washington Post: “…The Post’s voter file is compiled by L2, a data firm founded by its two eponymous L’s, Lourene and Lindy Criddle, in the mid-1970s. Within L2, dozens of engineers hammer away on secure servers to update, clean and standardize public voter records bought from the states. Such voter rolls, constructed under the auspices …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy – Roots and Responses

Theda Skocpol (Harvard University; A..D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell), Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy — Roots and Responses Abstract: Why is US democracy facing an existential crisis this year? While some focus on the persona and rhetoric of Donald Trump, or stress underlying institutional distortions and polarizing social divisions, Skocpol highlights and explains the recent …

Subjects: Congress, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Want to Search Donald Trump’s Truth Social Posts? A New Site Is Here to Help.

Washingtonian: “Do you regularly check Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform? Unless you’re a faithful Trump supporter or a journalist who covers the former president, Chris Herbert would bet that you probably don’t. That’s why Herbert—a web developer based in DC—and his team at the conservative, anti-Trump nonprofit Defending Democracy Together created Trump’s Truth, a database …

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

How to Spot a Fake Review on Amazon

PCMag: “As wonderful as the internet can be, it also lies to us every day. Fake reviews—seemingly legitimate assessments created by a seller or someone paid by them—are becoming harder to spot. The online shopping boom has made them a big business, but they can end up costing you serious money. In 2021, it was …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 21, 2024

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 21, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Museo del Prado offers free online access to more than 11,500 publications from late 15th century to early 20th century

“The new Digital Library of the Museo del Prado, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 magazine issues and 6,000 books specializing in artistic literature and published between the end of the 15th and early 20th centuries. More than 1,700,000 pages have been digitized, the cataloguing …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries