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Columbia Journalism Review: “A year ago this month, major publications across the United States partially or completely lowered their paywalls. The idea was that information about the outbreak of covid-19 had life-saving potential, and so it should be available to everyone, not just to subscribers—a fraction of news readers who tend to be the wealthiest …
Schiess, Wayne, Graphics in Briefs: Why Not? (Fall 2020). The Advocate (Fall 2020), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3785445 – “Legal writers should use graphics and visuals as persuasive tools in their documents, and it’s already happening. This article discusses the support for using graphics from experts and practicing lawyers. It addresses the most common reasons lawyers …
Mashable – “Dictionary.com announced its latest language updates as we reach the one year anniversary of our communal COVID-19 lockdown. In a year marked by new modes of communicating and advocating, the updates reflect our new reality with additions like “doomscrolling,” “Zoom,” and “BIPOC,” (Black Indigenous and People of Color). The 2021 additions were announced …
CRS – The Digital Divide: What Is It, Where Is It, and Federal Assistance Programs, March 09, 2021: “As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began to unfold, many federal, local, and state governments, in addition to large and small businesses, implemented remote working or distance learning options to help abate the spread of the …
MakeUseOf: “…Research conducted by Cybersecurity for Democracy suggests that far-right Facebook pages that publish misinformation have the highest levels of engagement per follower when compared to any other category of news source. Cybersecurity for Democracy is a project of New York University. This study that focused on fake news on Facebook is credited to Laura …
The Guardian – “Two photographs taken from exactly the same viewpoint at different times in history” – from around the world. I recommend looking at all the photos beginning here.
Internet Archive Blogs – “Looking for a research paper but can’t find a copy in your library’s catalog or popular search engines? Give Internet Archive Scholar a try! We might have a PDF from a “vanished” Open Access publisher in our web archive, an author’s pre-publication manuscript from their archived faculty webpage, or a digitized …
Above The Law -“…In DR Distributors, LLC v. 21 Century Smoking, Inc., originally filed in 2012, two companies that sell electronic cigarettes brought suit and counterclaims alleging, among other things, trademark violations under the Lanham Act. The court’s decision is 256 pages long. Like the Smalls decision 18 months ago, this decision was at times …
Health Analytics: “Using machine learning, researchers found that people’s biases about COVID-19 and its treatments are exacerbated when they read tweets from other users, a study published in JMIR showed. The analysis also revealed that scientific events, like scientific publications, and non-scientific events, like speeches from politicians, equally influence health belief trends on social media. …
Barczentewicz, Mikolaj, Teaching Technology to (Future) Lawyers (February 23, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3791608 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3791608 “The paper offers a reflection on how applications of computer technology (including data analytics) are and may be taught to (future) lawyers and what are the benefits and limitations of the different approaches. There is a growing sense among …
A Roadmap for US Global Leadership – Report on Reports – March 2021: “The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded Americans that the world is interconnected and what happens overseas can land on kitchen tables at home in a matter of hours. Upending an already turbulent political and global landscape, American’s health and economic security have been …
SEO MBA – Avoid slide-crimes with these 5 concepts for more effective presentations – I worked at Google for two years, and in that time I learned nothing about SEO – instead I spent two years putting presentations together. Turns out this is a rather useful skill. In the SEO industry there’s an abundance of …
