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the Chronicle of Higher Education – Jennifer Howard: “Academic libraries indexing of digitized works counts as fair use. So says the federal judge overseeing a major copyright-infringement lawsuit brought last year by the Authors Guild against the HathiTrust digital repository and its university partners. At stake was the uses the libraries could make of millions …
Lee Rainie – Oct 11, 2012, at National Conference of State Legislators: “Being connected to the web, mobile technologies and social media have made many of us feel over or hyper-connected. Could being hyper-connected actually benefit younger generations? Lee Rainie [reviews] the latest data that shows how constant contact among younger generations allows them to …
Mobile Device Location Data – Additional Federal Actions Could Help Protect Consumer Privacy, GAO-12-903, Sep 11, 2012 “Using several methods of varying precision, mobile industry companies collect location data and use or share that data to provide users with location-based services, offer improved services, and increase revenue through targeted advertising. Location-based services provide consumers access …
The State of the 2012 Election Mobile Politics, by Aaron Smith, Maeve Duggan, Oct 9, 2012: “As of late September, 88% of registered voters own a cell phone of some kindand significant numbers of these voters are using their mobile devices to get information about the 2012 election, to interact with the campaigns, and …
Via LLRX.com: Statistics Resources and Big Data on the Internet – Marcus P. Zillman has compiled a best practices bibliography of sites and reliable sources focused on the hot topic of statistics and big data. These sources are representative of multiple publishers, national and global – government, academia, NGOs, and industry, many of which leverage …
Hoofnagle, Chris Jay, Urban, Jennifer M. and Li, Su, Privacy and Modern Advertising: Most US Internet Users Want ‘Do Not Track’ to Stop Collection of Data about their Online Activities (October 8, 2012). Amsterdam Privacy Conference, 2012. Available at SSRN. Most Americans have not heard of ‘Do Not Track,’ a proposal to allow Internet users …
“When used appropriately, educational technology is a tool to assist with implementation of the Common Core Standards, help raise graduation rates, and prepare students for life beyond K-12 education. Technology employed in isolation, without direct instruction, or highly qualified guidance, fails to address these concerns. It is the intent of this AASL [American Association of …
“…if youre among the millions of Americans who cant afford the typical expensive high speed internet services out there, and cant stomach the low-speed free internet dial-up ISPs, this is the website for you. Not only will you learn about how to get cheap high-speed internet for only $9.95 a month and even free …
News release with charts and data: “The Internet is now a fundamental infrastructure supporting the economy and is firmly in its second stage of development, having evolved from a data network connecting PCs with wires to a much broader network of new portable devices from mobile phones to tablet computers. It is also on the …
News releases: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation. The agreement settles a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google on …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has launched a major international crackdown on tech support scams in which telemarketers masquerade as major computer companies, con consumers into believing that their computers are riddled with viruses, spyware and other malware, and then charge hundreds of dollars to remotely access and fix the consumers computers. At the …
“The presentation includes random notes and interesting quotes that illustrate not only how researchers are using social media but also how measurements of their social web impact relates to their personal brand and altmetrics. Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC’s Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist, gave this presentation to staff at the University of Pittsburgh Library System …
