Category «Internet»

A New Portal for the Decentralized Web and its Guiding Principles

Internet Archives Blog – “For a long time, we’ve felt that the growing, diverse, global community interested in building the decentralized Web needed an entry point. A portal into the events, concepts, voices, and resources critical to moving the Decentralized Web forward. This is why we created, getdweb.net, to serve as a portal, a welcoming …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

It’s not just a social media problem – how search engines spread misinformation

It’s not just a social media problem – how search engines spread misinformation – Chirag Shah, Associate Professor in the Information School, University of Washington and Founding Director of InfoSeeking Lab, which focuses on issues related to information seeking, human-computer interaction (HCI), and social media. Shah’s research describes how search engines are not just one …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 21, 2021

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 21, 2021 – Privacy and security 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: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines, Transportation

Frick – 175,000 New Photoarchive Records Available Digitally

Explore the Frick Collection: “In February 2021, the Frick Art Reference Library announced the completion of a massive, three-year project to digitize the library’s historic Photoarchive collection. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this initiative has made records and images for more than 175,000 works of art available in the Frick Digital Collections, NYARC Discovery(link …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

‘Exit Counselors’ Strain To Pull Americans Out Of A Web Of False Conspiracies

NPR – “…Experts see this spread of disinformation as a public health emergency that’s threatening democracy, increasing the risk of further violence, and straining family relationships. It’s also taxing a bevy of “deprogrammers” who are trying to help. More commonly referred to as “exit counselors” or “de-radicalizers,” they help people caught up in cultic ideologies …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Massive camera hack exposes the growing reach and intimacy of American surveillance

Washington Post – A breach of the camera start-up Verkada ‘should be a wake-up call to the dangers of self-surveillance,’ one expert said: “‘Our desire for some fake sense of security is its own security threat.”  In one video, a woman in a hospital room watches over someone sleeping in an intensive-care-unit bed. In another, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Hein, U.S. News, and How to Increase Citations

Willey, Rob and Knapp, Melanie, Hein, U.S. News, and How to Increase Citations (March 11, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3801190 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3801190 “Using nearly 250,000 law review articles published on HeinOnline in a five-year period, the authors analyze citation patterns and characteristics of the articles such as title length, number of authors, article length, publication …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Post-Pandemic Libraries

John Hubbard – Medium: “…I hope that any libraries remaining open shutter before it’s the obvious choice to make, because by then it could very well be too late for some people. It sounds awfully melodramatic, but when you have deans and mayors talking about the need to provide WiFi or books to students as …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Your Face Is Not Your Own

The New York Times – “When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open…Computers once performed facial recognition rather imprecisely, by identifying people’s facial features and measuring the distances among them — a crude …

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

Listen to Wikipedia: A Web Site That Turns Every Wikipedia Edit Into Ambient Music in Real Time

Open Culture – “…Wikipedia itself has become ambient music. Listen to Wikipedia, writes co-creator Mahmoud Hashemi, “is a real-time auralization of Wikipedia growing, one edit at a time. The site is literally self-explanatory.” Even so, at that linked blog post Hashemi and his fellow developer Stephen LaPorte explain that “Bells are additions, strings are subtractions.” [Highly recommend …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Teaching Technology to (Future) Lawyers

Barczentewicz, Mikolaj, Teaching Technology to (Future) Lawyers (February 23, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3791608 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3791608 “The paper offers a reflection on how applications of computer technology (including data analytics) are and may be taught to (future) lawyers and what are the benefits and limitations of the different approaches. There is a growing sense among …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries