Category «Internet»

6 One-Person Blogs for Smart Articles Worth Reading for the Curious Mind

Make Use Of: “Stay curious with these excellent one-person blogs that will make you keep coming back for more.Do you miss blogs on the old internet, where witty people wrote their thoughts and musings? Well, you’re in for a treat. Check out these smart, funny, and entertaining blogs run by a single writer. Personal blogs …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media

Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University: “This field guide looks at social media that works on different “logics” than do Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. It features communities that have tried consciously to use different models than surveillance capitalism and includes the work of collaborators in other countries and subcultures. No field guide would be …

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

Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody

The Verge: “Google is announcing some changes to its Workspace suite of apps and services today, including availability for anybody who has a Google account. Google says that there are over three billion users of its Workspace apps — though it’s probably a safe bet that Gmail accounts for a healthy chunk of that userbase. …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management

What makes a news story trustworthy?

“Americans see a variety of factors as important when it comes to deciding whether a news story is trustworthy or not, but their attitudes vary by party affiliation, demographic characteristics and news consumption habits, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. Overall, broad majorities of U.S. adults say it is at least somewhat important …

Subjects: Internet, Social Media

How Companies Can Navigate Political Risks Successfully

Knowledge@Wharton: “Companies are facing heightened political risks across the globe, but the majority of them are underprepared, reactive, and lacking confidence in their ability to navigate those risks successfully. Geopolitical risks are the biggest, especially with COVID-19 disrupting supply chains, the rise of nationalization and protectionism, the hardening of U.S.-China trade tensions, and increasing confrontations …

Subjects: Economy, Energy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How Academic Pirate Alexandra Elbakyan Is Fighting Scientific Misinformation

Vice: “In the decade since Alexandra Elbakyan founded Sci-Hub, science’s so-called “pirate queen” has amassed more than 85 million full-text research articles, which she’s made available, for free, to anyone who can track down her custom search engine. Sci-Hub uses myriad techniques, including shared passwords and bugs on publisher websites, to rip copyrighted papers, and …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility

The Columbus Dispatch: “Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a lawsuit asking a court to declare Google a public utility that should be regulated as such. “Google uses its dominance of internet search to steer Ohioans to Google’s own products – that’s discriminatory and anti-competitive,” Yost said in a statement. “When you own the railroad or …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

How to make your offline self harder to find online

The Verge:  “There are two key concepts in information security: threat model and attack surface. “Threat model” is another way of asking, “Who’s out to get you?” If your threat model includes the curiosity of nation-state intelligence services, you have many more things to worry about than J. Random User. It’s more likely that voicing …

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

Fastly outage explained: How one customer broke Amazon, Reddit and the wider internet

CNET: “Tuesday [June 8, 2021] will be remembered as the day the internet broke — before swiftly being fixed again. Early in the morning, websites including Amazon, Reddit, Spotify, Ebay, Twitch, Pinterest and, unfortunately, CNET went offline due to a major outage at a service called Fastly. Everywhere you looked, there were 503 errors and …

Subjects: Internet, Social Media

This is how fast a password leaked on the web will be tested out by hackers

ZDNet: “Half of accounts compromised in phishing attacks are manually accessed within 12 hours of the username and password being leaked, as cyber criminals look to exploit stolen credentials as quickly as possible. Cybersecurity researchers at Agari planted thousands of credentials – that were made to look like they belonged to real users, but were …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy