January 31, 2017

LOC Guest Post: Lots of Transfer Collectives Keep Cultural Memory Safe: The Importance of Community Audio/Visual Archiving

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 provide low-cost services to all those in possession of potentially deteriorating media that falls outside of the attention of large collecting institutions. The model we are developing will be constructed in a way that enables individuals and groups with little-to-no technical or archival expertise to easily understand core principles behind audio/visual transfer technology, determine a preservation strategy within their own means and implement it quickly.”

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January 31, 2017

The Guardian: Whatever happened to the DeepMind AI ethics board Google promised?

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 the ethics board wasn’t confirmed at the time of the acquisition announcement, and the public only became aware of it through a leak to industry news site The Information. But in the years since, senior members of DeepMind have publicly confirmed the board’s existence, arguing that it is one of the ways that the company is trying to ‘lead the way’ on ethical issues in AI.”

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January 31, 2017

TechCrunch: Facebook launches a marketing mix modeling portal for comparing Facebook ads to TV, print & more

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 integrations, and the launch of a new online portal to help marketers see how their Facebook ads perform, in comparison with other platforms, like TV or print.”

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January 31, 2017

Mashable: Snapchat update lets you create ‘Snapcodes’ for any website, including porn

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 field.” The article also includes an overview of how it works.

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January 31, 2017

StateTech: Transparency Requires Government Data to Be Available and Accessible

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 does not necessarily mean that it has implemented a transparency strategy. IT professionals should understand the importance of tracing needed privacy and transparency requirements when developing new systems, and take into account specific design and architectural considerations to achieve greater transparency.”

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January 31, 2017

NLM Blog: We’re Witnessing a Health Data Explosion

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, on what happens bedside, in the doctor’s office, or at the kitchen table as patients decide what to do.”

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January 31, 2017

Medium: Twitter Activist Security

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 to individuals while empowering their ability to act safely.” This is very hardcore stuff. Not illegal or anything like that, but extensive. In light of some of the threatening behavior that happens on Twitter, you might want to adopt a few of these ideas for your regular account.

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January 31, 2017

Bowdoin: Celebrating Bowdoin’s Molinari Medals and Plaquettes [Digital Archive]

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, including Pisanello, Matteo de Pasti, Francesco da Sangallo, Guillaume Dupré, Nicolas Marie Gatteaux, and David d’Angers.” The archive is expected to launch this spring.

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January 31, 2017

How-To Geek: How to Keep People From Knowing You Read Their Message on Facebook

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 one another. However, Facebook also tells you when your recipient has read your message—something not everyone enjoys.”

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January 31, 2017

Hollywood.com Launches New Photo Site / Archive

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 time, and the library is fully searchable by keyword.”

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January 31, 2017

ThreatPost: Telemarketing Firm Leaks 400,000 Recorded Calls

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 information of those called. The discovery was made by the MacKeeper Security Research Center, which said it found 28GB of recordings stored on a server belonging to Vici Marketing.” If you think that’s not a big deal because it’s audio, you don’t know how great transcription software and services has gotten lately…

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January 31, 2017

MakeUseOf: A Brief Guide to Windows 10 Accessibility Tools

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 you use them? In this post, I’m going to walk you through all the accessibility apps and give you a quick lesson on their usage.” A basic overview, but thorough, and Microsoft is not always great about surfacing this stuff.

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