Category «Knowledge Management»

You Could Have Told Me That in the First Place: Five Tips That Might Have Saved a Young Lawyer a Lot of Trouble

Jay O’Keeffe, You Could Have Told Me That in the First Place: Five Tips That Might Have Saved a Young Lawyer a Lot of Trouble, 52 U. Rich. L. Rev. 53 (2022).  Available at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vol52/iss5/7 “I will open with a confession: I have very, very little to contribute to legal scholarship. My day-to-day work as …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

How Book Bans Turned a Texas Town Upside Down

The New York Times Magazine: “…Over the last year, campaigns to ban books have erupted throughout school districts and local libraries across the country. The American Library Association, which tracks challenges to library books or resources since 1990, previously documented roughly 300 to 350 complaints annually, with most challenges targeting a single title each. But …

Subjects: Censorship, Education, Free Speech, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Facebook Engineers: We Have No Idea Where We Keep All Your Personal Data

Intercept: “In March, two veteran Facebook engineers found themselves grilled about the company’s sprawling data collection operations in a hearing for the ongoing lawsuit over the mishandling of private user information stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The hearing, a transcript of which was recently unsealed (PDF), was aimed at resolving one crucial issue: What …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Politico’s new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media

Washington Post: “Months after his company bought Politico, Mathias Döpfner stood atop Axel Springer’s 19-story headquarters, gazing out at the double row of cobblestones that mark the outline of the demolished Berlin Wall, and explained his global ambitions. “We want to be the leading digital publisher in democracies around the world,” he said. A newcomer …

Subjects: Congress, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Making of Modern Ukraine: A Free Online Course from Yale Professor Timothy Snyder

Open Culture: “This fall, historian Timothy Snyder is teaching a course at Yale University called The Making of Modern Ukraine. And he’s generously making the lectures available on YouTube–so that you can follow along too. The first lecture appears above. Subsequent lectures will be available on Yale’s YouTube Channel. And you can find the syllabus …

Subjects: Defense, Education, Knowledge Management

The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score

The New York Times:”…Architects, academic administrators, doctors, nursing home workers and lawyers described growing electronic surveillance over every minute of their workday. They echoed complaints that employees in many lower-paid positions have voiced for years: that their jobs are relentless, that they don’t have control — and in some cases, that they don’t even have …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Try these Google Docs Tricks

Via Wonder Tools newsletter by Jeremy Caplan, director of teaching and learning at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. “Google Docs is a contemporary classic. It’s less powerful than Notion, Coda or Craft and less streamlined than Bear, Ulysses, Drafts, or iA Writer. But it’s so reliable — and has so many capabilities — that I …

Subjects: E-Records, Knowledge Management

Project Drawdown: The World’s Leading Climate Solutions Database Is Growing

Earth.org: “Founded in 2014 by Author and Entrepreneur Paul Hawken in collaboration with over 200 researchers, Project Drawdown is one of the most influential research-backed databases of climate solutions on the planet.  The project’s mission is to help the world reach ‘drawdown’ – the point in time where levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Launches New Legal Information Resource

AALL: “The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is offering a new resource for information professionals—law librarians, legal information professionals , and public librarians—and members of the public to easily locate online primary legal materials. The new Online Legal Information Resources (OLIR) includes information for U.S. states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, the U.S. …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Legislation