Great guest post from the Library of Congress blog: Lots of Transfer Collectives Keep Cultural Memory Safe: The Importance of Community Audio/Visual Archiving. “This year, XFR Collective is expanding its efforts to develop and make available a reproducible community archiving training and access model. We recognize that XFR’s resources alone will not be enough to […]
The Guardian: Whatever happened to the DeepMind AI ethics board Google promised? “Three years ago, artificial intelligence research firm DeepMind was acquired by Google for a reported £400m. As part of the acquisition, Google agreed to set up an ethics and safety board to ensure that its AI technology is not abused. The existence of […]
TechCrunch: Facebook launches a marketing mix modeling portal for comparing Facebook ads to TV, print & more. “Facebook today announced a laundry list of updates regarding its measurement partnership program, including expanded partnerships with Nielsen and comScore, and the addition of a new partner, DoubleVerify. The company also offered details on the status of current […]
Mashable: Snapchat update lets you create ‘Snapcodes’ for any website, including porn. “A new Snapchat update rolled out to iOS users Tuesday makes it much easier to share online content within the app. It allows users to create so-called Snapcodes for any link, which is as simple as manually entering a URL into an entry […]
StateTech: Transparency Requires Government Data to Be Available and Accessible. “Government transparency means financial and public information is readily understandable and readily found. It means taxpayers can see how public funds are used and hold their elected officials accountable. When a government participates in social media and other technology, including a multitude of websites, that […]
Facebook just can’t stop picking at its timeline algorithm. “Facebook today announced changes to the News Feed to better display relevant stories. As part of the change, Facebook is rolling out new signals to ‘better identify and rank authentic content’ as well as a new real-time prediction algorithm to spot stories faster that might be […]
From the National Library of Medicine blog: We’re Witnessing a Health Data Explosion. “From a public health perspective, I am interested in how NLM can foster new approaches to interpreting and using information so individuals can have more productive health care interactions and improved health decision-making. Along that bench-to-bedside continuum, I’m focused on the end, […]
Medium: Twitter Activist Security. “Many people are starting to get politically active in ways they fear might have negative repercussions for their job, career or life. It is important to realise that these fears are real, but that public overt resistance is critical for political legitimacy. This guide hopes to help reduce the personal risks […]
In development: a digital archive of medals and plaquettes. “Modeled after ancient precedents, medals and plaquettes, which emerged during the Renaissance, celebrated political, religious, and cultural leaders, as well as commemorating transformative events. The Molinari collection, one of the most distinguished in the United States, features masterpieces designed by leading Renaissance, Rococo, and Neoclassical artists, […]
For all you sneakies (or people, who, you know, like their privacy), from How-To Geek: How to Keep People From Knowing You Read Their Message on Facebook. “Facebook is the most popular social network on the internet, and as a result, its messaging service is a very common way for people to privately communicate with […]
New-to-me: a database of drone specifications. And when I say drone, I don’t mean “fly it around in your backyard” drone, I mean drones that should probably still be called UAVs – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Countries from Afghanistan to the US are included in this database.
Congratulations to GovTrack for reaching its $3000 a month goal on Patreon. I hope its not too partisan to opine that any administration, no matter what letters its representatives have after their names, serves its citizenry better when it’s as transparent as possible.
Hollywood.com has launched a new photo site/archive. I’m bad on popular culture past about 1976, so I this isn’t a site I can assess well. “From paparazzi photos of your favorite celebs to movie premieres, get lost in this glorious world of photos. The Photo Archive contains over 10 million hi-res photos, updated in real […]
This is an unusual data leak: audio files. “More than 400,000 audio files associated with a Florida company’s telemarketing efforts were stored online in the clear, and were discovered earlier this month by researchers at MacKeeper. More than 17,600 of those audio recordings were customer transactions that included names, addresses, and credit card and CVV […]
MakeUseOf: A Brief Guide to Windows 10 Accessibility Tools . “Windows has always offered its users some accessibility tools. However, as computers have become more powerful, the scope and range of tools Microsoft can provide have increased. Today, the operating system is packed with accessibility features. But what tools are available specifically? And how can […]