Category «Knowledge Management»

Anna’s Archive

“Anna’s Archive is a non-profit, open-source search engine for “shadow libraries”. It was created by Anna, who felt that there was a need for a central place to search for books, papers, comics, magazines, and other documents. We strongly believe in the free flow of information, and preservation of knowledge and culture. With this search …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Bias, Skew and Search Engines Are Sufficient to Explain Online Toxicity

Association for Computing Machinery. Scholar One Manuscripts. Bias, Skew and Search Engines Are Sufficient to Explain Online Toxicity: “U.S. political discourse seems to have fissioned into discrete bubbles, each reflecting its own distorted image of the world. Many blame machine-learning algorithms that purportedly maximize “engagement” — serving up content that keeps YouTube or Facebook users …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines, Social Media

Data Index Tool Offers Glimpse at School Success Boundaries

GovTech: “Federal data can be difficult to wrangle, but a new tool created by a nonprofit aims to remove some of the heavy lifting to help create a clear picture of communities socioeconomic needs — specifically within school attendance boundaries. The National Academy Foundation (NAF), an education nonprofit, collaborated with the NYU Marron Institute of …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Food and Nutrition, Knowledge Management, Poverty

FAA Aviation Maps

Kottke: “On Beautiful Public Data, Jon Keegan highlights the extremely information-rich flight maps produced by the Federal Aviation Administration that pilots use to find their way around the skies. Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s …

Subjects: E-Government, Knowledge Management, Transportation

Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user name

The Conversation: “The ability to remain anonymous when commenting online is a double-edged sword. It is valuable because it enables people to speak without fear of social and legal discrimination. But this is also what makes it dangerous. Someone from a repressive religious community can use anonymity to talk about their sexuality, for example. But …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Social Media

Microsoft announces AI newsroom projects with Semafor and others, as NYT lawsuit looms

GeekWire: “Microsoft announced five projects to help news organizations incorporate generative artificial intelligence into their operations, building on its existing efforts to use technology to support the role of journalism in democracy. The company will collaborate on different initiatives with Semafor, the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, the Online News Association, the GroundTruth …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Microsoft

LLRX January 2024 Issue

LLRX Articles and Columns for January 2024 The 2024 ‘Burning Issues’ Confronting Firm Leaders – Patrick J, Mckeena and Michael B. Rynowecer AI in Banking and Finance, January 31, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

“Cast as Criminals, America’s Librarians Rally to Their Own Defense”

The New York Times [read free]: “…As America’s libraries have become noisy and sometimes dangerous new battlegrounds in the nation’s culture wars, librarians like Ms. Neujahr and their allies have moved from the stacks to the front lines. People who normally preside over hushed sanctuaries are now battling groups that demand the mass removal of …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

How we all get news now

Well, not all of us but…how about adding beSpacific! – The Verge: ” Most people just have A Place. Or two. Overwhelmingly, I heard from folks who mostly just open up one or two sources to get their news. The New York Times app was the most-named one by a pretty wide margin, which didn’t …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, RSS

Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired

The Verge: “Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

A Search Engine That Finds You Weird Old Books

Clive Thompson: “(tl;dr — if you want to skip this essay and just try out my search tool, it’s here.) Last fall, I wrote about the concept of “rewilding your attention” — why it’s good to step away from the algorithmic feeds of big social media and find stranger stuff in nooks of the Internet. …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines, Social Media

AI in Banking and Finance, January 31, 2024

Via LLRX – AI in Banking and Finance, January 31, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research