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CRS: Social Media and Disasters: Current Uses, Future Options, and Policy Considerations, Bruce R. Lindsay, Analyst in American National Goverment, September 6, 2011 “In the last five years social media have played an increasing role in emergencies and disasters. Social media sites rank as the fourth most popular source to access emergency information. They have …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on proposed amendments to the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Rule, which gives parents control over what personal information websites may collect from children under 13. The FTC proposes these amendments to ensure that the Rule continues to protect childrens privacy, as mandated by Congress, as …
Alex Campbell: “Incoming students at the University of North Carolinas School of Information and Library Science this year are getting a new kind of welcome-to-campus perk: Free data storage, for keeps. The service, called LifeTime Library, works on students personal computers, allowing them to automatically archive files and folders. The data are preserved on the …
Radical change is certainly producing some alarming symptoms: “According to Nielsen BookScan, the publishing industry standard for book sales data, book sales are pretty healthy, with one significant proviso which I’ll come to. Ten years ago in 2001, 162m books were sold in Britain. Ten years later a decade in which the internet bloomed, …
“The World Wide Web Foundation is very pleased to announce an exciting new initiative: the World Wide Web Index. We thank Google for a generous grant of US $1 million to the Foundation, which we are using to seed the creation of the Index…What is the Web Index? The Web Index will be the worlds …
“The Tracking Protection Working Group is chartered to improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking and for blocking or allowing Web tracking elements. The group seeks to standardize the technology and meaning of Do Not Track, and of Tracking Selection Lists.” See in Input Documents as …
Via Rich McCue: UVic Law Student Technology Survey 2011 – “In addition to the technology questions weve been asking UVic Law students over the past nine years, we decided for the second year in a row to ask some extra questions about the mobile technology that students are arriving at Law School equipped with. This …
28% of American adults use mobile and social location-based services: “55% of smartphone owners use their phones to get location-based directions or recommendations, while geosocial services and location-tagging features are less popular,” by Kathryn Zickuhr, Research Specialist and Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, 9/6/2011
Internet Access – Households and Individuals, 2011. Key Points: 45 per cent of Internet users used a mobile phone to connect to the Internet 6 million people accessed the Internet over their mobile phone for the first time in the previous 12 months The use of wireless hotspots almost doubled in the last 12 months …
Weak typing – the lost art of the keyboard. by Janet Swift :The keyboard is still the predominant way we interact with a computer. Voice input, touch screens and even whole body gestural input may be on the increase but most of us still type our commands or data into the machine. This makes is …
“The Global Internet Speedup is the name for our collaborative effort to make the Internet faster through cooperation between recursive DNS services and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). This collaboration is being done through an open IETF proposed standard called “edns-client-subnet” which helps better direct content to users thereby decreasing latency, decreasing congestion, increasing transfer speeds …
Triposo – “We build free, interactive travel guides for mobile devices. To make our guides we use the content that is freely available from seven different sources, including Wikitravel, Wikipedia, World66 and Openstreetmap. Our mission is to make that content relevant for you. So we mix and mash and annotate – and we distill great, …
