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From Sarah Glassmeyer – “The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure just had a ton of revisions come into effect on December 1. Since the US Courts only publish this in a 170 page PDF, I thought I’d make it a little more user friendly and make an ebook (by which I mean an ePub, compatible …
Broadband adoption rates and gaps in U.S. metropolitan areas by Adie Tomer and Joseph Kane, December 7, 2015. “For many Americans, daily life orbits around a high-speed Internet connection. Workers and students go online to communicate and learn. Families stay in touch through live video feeds. Job seekers often need an electronic resume and an …
Mollick, Ethan R., Delivery Rates on Kickstarter (December 4, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2699251 “Using a large survey with 47,188 backers of Kickstarter projects, I examined the factors that led to projects failing to deliver their promised rewards. Among funded projects, a failure to deliver seems relatively rare, accounting for around 9% of …
Hearing: Improving Customer Service for the Copyright Community: Ensuring the Copyright Office and the Library of Congress are able to meet the demands of the digital age. Committee on House Administration. Wednesday, December 2, 2015. Witnesses Mr. David S. Mao Acting Librarian of Congress, Library of Congress Added 12/01/2015 at 03:15 PM Ms. Maria A. …
Via LLRX – Information Quality Resources and Expert Resources – Marcus Zillman’s guide is a comprehensive and selective bibliography including search engines, world wide web resources, services and sites currently offering free, value added content on the web. As more and more of the global population is accessing the web, making informed choices about what …
ISIS in America: From Retweets to Raqqa, by Lorenzo Vidino and Seamus Hughes, George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, December 2015. “Searching for Answers – What explains the recent surge in American jihadi recruits? Who are the Americans lured by the siren songs of ISIS’s propaganda? How do they embrace such radical ideology, turning their …
“As the UN Summit on Climate Change ramps up in Paris, Plume Labs, a maker of environmental software for health and well being, announced today the launch of its World Air Map, a live map of air pollution around the world. The data revolution can help policymakers cut air pollution and communities take back control …
“MARC provides no straightforward way to extract all records for “archival materials,” so OCLC Research has scoped a filter to extract the archival subset from WorldCat. The filter itself suggests a rich discussion question: How does one define archival material in the context of the MARC format? For starters, it encompasses materials in every format …
“Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.”
“Censys is a search engine that enables researchers to ask questions about the hosts and networks that compose the Internet. Censys collects data on hosts and websites through daily ZMap and ZGrab scans of the IPv4 address space, in turn maintaining a database of how hosts and websites are configured. Researchers can interact with this …
The Cloud Catalog: One Catalog to Serve Them All – By Steve Coffman “As a whole, public libraries are the single largest supplier of books in the U.S. No single other outlet can compete with public libraries—not Amazon, not Barnes & Noble, not Walmart or Costco, not all your local bookstores. But you’d never know …
D.C.-based newspaper staff focus on Congress, but wire services account for most of what readers see – December 3, 2015. “The story of who is covering federal government is a striking illustration of the shifting power dynamics within American journalism at large. Reporters for niche outlets, some of which offer highly specialized information services at …
