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Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 13, 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 increasingly …
The New York Times – “Creating a commonplace book is somewhat like marking your favorite lines in a novel with the Amazon Kindle highlights feature — except your personal one-stop knowledge repository can also include song lyrics, movie dialogue, poems, recipes, podcast transcripts, and any inspiring bits you find in your reading and listening. The …
Library Journal: “In the messy middle of the pandemic, library leaders share how things have changed since March 2020, their takeways, and continuing challenges. It’s been 10 months, at press time, since those of us lucky enough to be able to work from home left our offices, yet the pandemic continues to rage. While the …
ZDNET – “Everyone needs a password manager. Period, full stop. It’s the only possible way to maintain unique, hard-to-guess credentials for every secure site you, your family members, and your team access daily. The five programs listed in this guide are all well-supported commercial programs. Although some offer a limited free plan, our evaluation is …
Washington Post – Five strategies to increase the chances of getting a free shot for yourself or someone you care about – “Scheduling coronavirus vaccine shots online is causing panic for eligible Americans and the children and grandchildren helping them. That includes me and my parents, hunting for scraps of information on supply and pressing …
60 Minutes: “President Biden inherited a lot of intractable problems, but perhaps none is as disruptive as the cyber war between the United States and Russia simmering largely under the radar. Last March, with the coronavirus spreading uncontrollably across the United States, Russian cyber soldiers released their own contagion by sabotaging a tiny piece of …
Notes from a Webinar – by Clare Brown: Webinar: “Web archiving services at the National Archives” (Wednesday 3 February 2021) Speaker: Tom Storrar – Web Archiving Service Owner at The National Archives; Chair: Fiona Laing (currently Chair of SCOOP – Standing Committee on Official Publication). “Do you remember when we used to pay educational visits …
Markovic, Milan, The Law Professor Pipeline (June 22, 2020). Temple Law Review, Vol. 92, 2020, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper 20-14, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3633281 “Throughout U.S. legal education’s history, a small number of elite law schools have produced the vast majority of law professors. Although law professor hiring is …
Same Energy is a visual search engine. “You can use it to find beautiful art, photography, decoration ideas, or anything else. We believe that image search should be visual, using only a minimum of words. And we believe it should integrate a rich visual understanding, capturing the artistic style and overall mood of an image, …
Fast Company – “To fight propaganda and inaccurate information, lean into critical-thinking skills, says the CEO of the E.W. Scripps Company…Where we are now is an increasingly digital world that makes it harder than ever to distinguish verified facts and objective journalism from opinion, propaganda, and even total fiction. Or, as recently termed by the …
CNET: “If you’re done with Google or have an old account you no longer need, here’s what you need to do to close your account. Whether you want to close your Google account over privacy concerns or you’re trying to reduce the number of internet accounts you have, the process takes some effort and time, …
CNET – “If you’ve been anywhere near the internet this week, you’ve probably seen the viral video of a virtual legal proceeding in Texas that wouldn’t have been very noteworthy — except for the fact that a lawyer accidentally switched on a filter that turned his face into an adorable kitten, and couldn’t figure out …
