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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: “Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser …
65% of online adults use social networking sites – Women maintain their foothold on SNS use and older Americans are still coming aboard. Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist, Kathryn Zickuhr, Research Specialist, 8/26/2011 “Two-thirds of adult internet users (65%) now say they use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, up from 61% …
The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information (July 8, 2011). New York University Law Review, Vol. 86, 2011. Paul M. Schwartz and Daniel J. Solove. Personally identifiable information (PII) is one of the most central concepts in information privacy regulation. The scope of privacy laws typically turns on whether PII …
Inside Higher Ed: “The ERIAL (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) project — a series of studies conducted at Illinois Wesleyan, DePaul University, and Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Illinoiss Chicago and Springfield campuses — was a meta-exercise for the librarians in practicing the sort of deep research they champion. Instead of relying …
“August 25, 2011 – Facebook is rolling out a series of changes to its privacy controls. We reviewed the changes in detail on Tuesday; now heres how you can take advantage of these changes. “Turn On Profile Review – One of the biggest changes to Facebooks privacy controls is the option to review any content …
“Symantec Corp. announced the results of the August 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report, now combining the best research and analysis from the Symantec.cloud MessageLabs Intelligence Report and the Symantec State of Spam & Phishing Report. This months analysis reveals that once more spammers are seeking to benefit from fluctuations in the turbulent financial markets, most notably …
Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of rare is changing in the age of information abundance by Maria Popova. “Over the past few years, the fledgling field of the digital humanities has made significant strides with a number of ambitious digitization projects bringing online rare cultural artifacts manuscripts, canvases, celluloid, marginalia that used …
International Bloggers and Internet Control, Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, Jillian York, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey. Berkman Center for Internet & Society, August 2011 “The Internet is an increasingly contested space, particularly in countries with repressive governments. Infringements on Internet freedom, particularly through Internet filtering and surveillance, have inspired activists and technologists to develop technological …
Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, Improvements in Patch and Configuration Management Controls Can Better Protect TSAs Wireless Network and Devices (Redacted) OIG-11-99 July 2011 “Overall, TSA has implemented effective physical and logical security controls to protect its wireless network and devices. We did not detect any high-risk vulnerabilities on its wireless network …
News release: “The National Music Publishers Association announced it has reached a resolution with YouTube in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed in 2007. As a result of this resolution, music publishers will have the opportunity to enter into a License Agreement with YouTube and receive royalties from YouTube for musical works in videos posted on …
Update, November 30, 2011: Seeking Synchronicity Webinar Recording Now Available OCLC – “A new membership report from OCLC Research, in partnership with Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Seeking Synchronicity distills more than five years of virtual reference (VR) research into a readable summary that features memorable quotes that vividly illustrate very specific and …
“The government apps and mobile sites allow you to access official information on various topics from the palm of your hand. Learn more about apps.” Congress A Pocket Directory – Sunlight Labs – “track elected officials, read the latest bills and laws. Want to know more about Congress?: Find your representatives by your location; …
