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“The Gun Violence Archive is an online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 7,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence. GVA is an independent data collection and research group with no affiliation with any advocacy organization” The …
Via Digg: Take your mind off the news, misinformation, disinformation, social media…work perhaps. Gergely Dudás offers visual brain teasers for you to ponder, and solve (he does provide solutions). He does this using colorful, whimsical, delightful graphical images, each containing a sort of puzzle challenge. The solutions are not easy, but a fun and distracting …
The New York Times: “…As highly visible and politicized book bans have exploded across the country, librarians — accustomed to being seen as dedicated public servants in their communities — have found themselves on the front lines of an acrimonious culture war, with their careers and their personal reputations at risk. They have been labeled …
The Next Web: This map-making tool has turned me into a digital cartographer: “Are you planning a pub crawl? Going on a road trip? Visiting a new city? You need a map. And now, you can make your very own. Making maps is usually something you either associate with old dudes in dusty paper-laden shops …
The Next Web – A project to preserve over 7TB of books, articles, and journals: “A new project has just launched with the goal of preserving all human knowledge. The problem? It’s illegal. The Pirate Library Mirror is what it says on the tin: a mirror of existing libraries of pirated content. The project focuses …
IT Gearhead: “Ever wonder whether you can mass unlike likes on Twitter? You may wish to bulk-delete Twitter likes, especially if they contradict your current views. Manually deleting each like may not be feasible. Can you do it with a single tap? Is there a tool one can use to delete all the Like they …
New via LLRX – The OCLC v Clarivate Dilemma – Librarian and tech expert Karen Coyle provides insight into the evolving conflict that caused OCLC to file suit against the company Clarivate which owns Proquest and ExLibris. The suit focuses on a metadata service proposed by Ex Libris called “MetaDoor.” MetaDoor isn’t a bibliographic database …
Solove, Daniel J. and Schwartz, Paul M., An Overview of Privacy Law in 2022 (April 1, 2022). Chapter 1 of PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS (6th Edition, IAPP 2022), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-26, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2022-26, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4072205 “Chapter 1 of PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS (6th edition, …
USPTO: “The Copyright Office has concluded a public study evaluating the effectiveness of current copyright protections for publishers in the United States, with a focus on press publishers. The Office’s report—Copyright Protections for Press Publishers—is linked on the right side of this page. In their letter requesting this study, six members of Congress pointed to …
VentureBeat: “According to a new report by Wrike, work complexities have created gaps in information resulting from the surge in applications and data processed and the pace of work today. Just as CERN identified Dark Matter as the “invisible” content that makes up 95% of the mass of the universe, modern work complexities have generated …
Arch Daily: “As gateways to knowledge and culture, libraries play a fundamental role in society. Foundational in creating opportunities for learning, as well as supporting literacy and education, the resources and services each library offers all work towards helping to shape new ideas that are central to building a creative and innovative society…”
“As Independence Day approaches, more than one in four Americans are so alienated from their government that they believe it may “soon be necessary to take up arms” against it, according to a new poll released Thursday by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP). That startling finding, which comes in the midst of …
