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Rick Anderson, The Scholarly Kitchen, November 6, 2017: “One of the things we talk about a lot here in the Scholarly Kitchen, and in the various neighborhoods and niches of the scholarly-communication ecosystem generally, is public access to scholarly and scientific publications. We discuss the degree to which everyone ought to have access to those …
“Since this Monday morning [November 6, 2017], there have been massive Comcast internet outages across the U.S., particularly in big cities like New York, D.C., Portland and San Francisco, according to Level 3’s outtage map. Comcast tweeted this morning, “Some customers are having issues with their XFINITY Internet service. We apologize & appreciate your patience …
Follow up to previous posting – Senate Intel Cmte Hearing – Social Media Influence in the 2016 U.S. Elections see Recode: “As the U.S. Congress continues to investigate Russian efforts to meddle in last year’s presidential election — in favor of Donald Trump — it has released a list of 2,752 now-deactivated Twitter accounts that …
Additional Information Needed for Ensuring Availability of Government Information Through the Federal Depository Library Program, US Government Publishing Office, Office of Inspector General Audit Report Number 18-01. October 12, 2017. “Congress established the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to provide free public access to Federal Government information. Creation, distribution, retention, and preservation of information has …
Axios – What Facebook, Google and Twitter told the Senate Intel committee Axios – “Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released examples of Facebook ads paid for by Russian actors during this afternoon’s hearing with Facebook, Google and Twitter. Ads were displayed in the hearing room to drive home their concern about foreign governments “weaponizing” …
Do you use Google all the time – at work, on your personal and work mobile devices, tablets, and home/work laptops? This article by André Staltz, The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how, was published on October 30, 2017 and the data he references may surprise you, or not. “Before the year 2014, there …
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing entitled: “Extremist Content and Russian Disinformation Online: Working with Tech to Find Solutions” October 31, 2017. This link includes video of the testimony as well as transcripts of prepared testimony by Facebook, Twitter, Google as well as two subject matter experts. View the …
Axios: “More than 70% of Americans believe technology has had a positive or somewhat positive effect on society, according to an Axios/ SurveyMonkey poll, and most Americans are optimistic about the impact of technology on the future. But that doesn’t mean they trust tech companies — 78% thought it was a “bad thing” that tech …
Medium – Dhawal Shah: “If you haven’t heard, universities around the world offering their courses online for free (or at-least partially free). These courses are collectively called as MOOCS or Massive Open Online Courses. In the past six years or so, close to 800 universities have created more than 8,000 of these MOOCs. And I’ve …
Runa Sandvik is the Director of Information Security at The New York Times: “Today we are announcing an experiment in secure communication, and launching an alternative way for people to access our site: we are making the website available as a Tor Onion Service…One way we can help is to set up nytimes.com as an …
Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University – “The first Internet Monitor research bulletin summarizes the recent, dramatic increase in Internet censorship in Egypt, examines the Twitter conversation around website blocking in Egypt, and identifies ways that users disseminate banned content.” “Internet filtering in Egypt illustrates how censorship can be a slippery slope. After an extended period …
Reality Check – Multiplatform newspaper readership in the United States, 2007–2015. Hsiang Iris Chyiirischyi & Ori Tenenboim. Journal of Journalism Practice, Volume 11, 2017 – Issue 7. Pages 798-819 | Published online: 27 Jul 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.108 /17512786.2016.1208056 Abstract – “Twenty years into US newspapers’ online ventures, many are stuck between a shrinking market for their …
