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The Internet Archives Blog, November 4, 2024. The following Q&A between writer Caralee Adams and journalist Philip Bump of The Washington Post is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. Read more essays online or download the full report now. Philip Bump is a columnist for The Washington Post based in New …
Literacy Data and its impact on the Nation Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level 45 million …
Pew Research – “Many Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, share information and entertain themselves. Explore the patterns and trends shaping the social media landscape. Which social media platforms are most common? YouTube and Facebook are the most-widely used online platforms. Half of U.S. adults say they use …
New interactive tool takes deep dive into voter demographics, Northeastern Global News – Demographic Vote Prediction Tool. “The tool developed by Northeastern University Distinguished Professor David Lazer allows users to select for demographics including gender, race, income, education, age and voting preference in 2020 and 2024. Trump secured victories in the key swing states of …
ZDNet: “I’ve been a fan of Firefox for a long time. However, a few years ago, I dropped it as my default browser because I found its tab management lacking. On top of that, the browser was missing some other UI customizations. Plus, it’s been nearly four years since the Firefox developers implemented a major tweak …
Kagi Translate delivers precise translation across 244 languages using advanced language models. You can translate any web page by adding “translate.kagi.com/” before the URL in your browser address bar. Or, drag this bookmarklet Kagi Translate to your browser bookmarks for one-click translation of selected text on page/entire web page. Follow @KagiHQ for updates or join …
Today [November 11, 2024], we’re introducing Obsidian Web Clipper a new extension that helps you highlight and capture the web in your favorite browser. Anything you save is stored as durable Markdown files that you can read offline, and preserve for the long term. Web Clipper makes it easy to shape Obsidian into a recipe book, a …
Financial Times – [unpaywalled] We’re in the midst of a listening revolution — and a new debate over text versus voice – “The numbers are eloquent. In the US, 52 per cent of adults have listened to an audiobook, and revenue from the audiobook market jumped to $2bn in 2023, according to a 2024 consumer …
Scientific American [unpaywalled]: “…Is it possible to cultivate more resilience to this kind of grief in the future? Yes. Increase your tolerance for ambiguity and keep increasing your tolerance for uncertainty. We hate uncertainty in this culture. There is, in fact, a tolerance for ambiguity scale. It was born out of a scale now called …
Save an entire web page—including images and styling—as a single HTML file. SingleFile is an add-on for Chrome, Firefox Desktop and Mobile that helps you to save an entire webpage including images, styling, frames, fonts etc. as a single HTML file. Getting started Wait until the page is fully loaded. Click on the SingleFile button …
Fast Company: “The death of cursive has become a problem for voters and election officials. Young people who vote by mail and were never taught cursive risk having their ballots tossed if the signature they sign on their mail-in ballot envelope doesn’t match the signature on file, which the state uses to verify their identity. …
News:iterary Project: News Literacy in America: A survey of teen information attitudes, habits and skills (2024). “American teens spend hours each day scrolling social media platforms, immersing themselves in an often-confusing stream of entertainment, ads, news, rumors and conspiracy theories. Young people need the knowledge, skills and habits of mind to assess the credibility and …
