Gothamist: First-Ever And “Long Overdue” Hip Hop Museum Groundbreaking Draws Luminaries To The Bronx. “Hip hop royalty converged on a large tract of empty land in the South Bronx, overlooking the Harlem River, for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Universal Hip Hop Museum on [May 20]. The event drew a who’s who of legendary hip hop artists including Grandmaster Flash, Slick Rick, Chuck D, Nas, LL Cool J, and Fat Joe. City and state officials joined the hip hop luminaries to plant shovels on the ground for the $80 million, 52,000-square-foot museum financed through city, state, and private monies.”
Monthly Archives: May 2021
‘Super cool’: Minnesota’s oldest Black-owned newspaper puts its archive online (MPR News)
MPR News: ‘Super cool’: Minnesota’s oldest Black-owned newspaper puts its archive online. “The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder has documented daily life in the Twin Cities’ Black community for more than 85 years. But until recently, finding stories from that rich past meant slogging through stacks of old newsprint. Now, that history can be found with a few clicks. Archives reaching back to 1934 are online now at the Minnesota Historical Society’s digital newspaper hub.”
University of Arkansas: U of A Launches New Razorback Band Digital Archive
University of Arkansas: U of A Launches New Razorback Band Digital Archive. “The U of A recently launched its new Razorback Band Digital Archive, which is a collection of almost 500 video files consisting of over 700 performances since 1963, catalogued in chronological order.”
GeekNative: AR success Foundry Six comes to tabletop RPGs with Arealm
GeekNative: AR success Foundry Six comes to tabletop RPGs with Arealm. “Arealm is compatible with any video chat such as Discord, Meet or Zoom. With it, DMs, GMs and players can transform into their tabletop RPG characters or NPCs. The project asks for $25,000 to fund, and you can see progress on the project page.”
Bleeping Computer: Swedish Health Agency shuts down SmiNet after hacking attempts
Bleeping Computer: Swedish Health Agency shuts down SmiNet after hacking attempts. “The Swedish Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) has shut down SmiNet, the country’s infectious diseases database, on Thursday after it was targeted in several hacking attempts. SmiNet, which is also used to store electronic reports with statistics on COVID-19 infections, was shut down on Thursday to investigate the attacks and was brought back online on Friday evening.”
UN AIDS: Republic of Moldova is pioneering high-tech community-led monitoring
UN AIDS: Republic of Moldova is pioneering high-tech community-led monitoring. “The Republic of Moldova has launched an online platform, ScorecardHIV, to measure progress in the country’s HIV response. The new tool includes indicators and data on epidemiology, funding and procurement, programmes, human rights and community-led services. It will allow governmental institutions, health programme managers, HIV service organizations, communities and other stakeholders to track the progress and assess the effectiveness of HIV programmes in the country. A data filtering system allows the customization of indicators in accordance with the user’s interests and needs.”
Europeana XX: Subtitle-a-thon Challenge Warsaw (Europeana Pro)
Europeana Pro: Europeana XX: Subtitle-a-thon Challenge Warsaw. “The National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA) and The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) Cluster Warsaw invite you to the first of four subtitle-a-thons focused on audiovisual heritage. The kick-off of the subtitle-a-thon takes place on Saturday, June 12th at 11.00 CET with a two hour introductory session, and will run online for seven days with a closing session on Friday, June 18th at 17.00 CET.”
World Intellectual Property Review: EUIPO’s TMview database expands to Chinese market
World Intellectual Property Review: EUIPO’s TMview database expands to Chinese market. “The People’s Republic of China has joined TMview, the EU Intellectual Property Office’s free trademark design search engine, adding 32 million marks owned by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) to the database.”
Gaza conflict: Instagram changes algorithm after alleged bias (BBC)
BBC: Gaza conflict: Instagram changes algorithm after alleged bias. “Instagram is changing the way it showcases content after being accused of suppressing pro-Palestinian messages during the recent Gaza conflict. The app had favoured original content in its ‘stories’ feature over existing, re-shared posts, but will now give them equal treatment, it said.”
Chiang Rai Times: Thai Government Seeks to Link Peoples ID to Social Media Accounts
Chiang Rai Times: Thai Government Seeks to Link Peoples ID to Social Media Accounts. “China is widely infamous for its public surveillance tactics and now Thailand’s government wants to take a page out of their playbook. Thai Security agencies and Thailand’s Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry are now seeking ways to supervise peoples usage of social media. The Thai government is now considering linking users’ registration on social media platforms with their ID cards, alleging its as a way to combat fake news, illicit content and fraud.”
Editorial: DeSantis battles social-media giants for show (Palm Beach Post)
The Palm Beach Post: Editorial: DeSantis battles social-media giants for show. “As veteran Tallahassee reporter Bill Cotterell notes, Florida has a legal precedent that should have stopped DeSantis, a lawyer, from this cyber-censorship. Almost 50 years ago, this state had a ‘right to reply’ law requiring newspapers to print rebuttal essays from candidates they did not endorse on their editorial pages. The Miami Herald refused to run a rebuttal submitted by a spurned legislative candidate. He sued, and the Supreme Court threw out the 1913 statute. The ruling means the press cannot be forced to publish something, any more than it can be forbidden to publish something.”
India Today: Social media influencers will now have to add labels for paid content, new guidelines out
India Today: Social media influencers will now have to add labels for paid content, new guidelines out. “The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has released new guidelines for social media influencers who upload content on various social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. According to the new guidelines, influencers will now have to add a disclosure label to clarify if a post includes paid advertisements.”
Dangerously trending: driverless Tesla videos on social media (France24)
France24: Dangerously trending: driverless Tesla videos on social media. “It was a boozy joyride captured for TikTok with a soundtrack provided by Justin Bieber and with a Tesla serving as the “Designated Driver” for the night. In the short video, three young men are shown dancing in their seats, beers nearby, as the vehicle moves down the highway near other cars at 65 miles per hour (105 kilometers per hour), as shown on the speedometer. Nobody is behind the steering wheel. The video clip, which has been ‘liked’ by nearly two million people and shared 105,000 times, is just one of many similar ones on social media reviewed by AFP.”
MakeUseOf: 5 Aesthetic Ideas to Make Your Pictures Stand Out on Social Media
MakeUseOf: 5 Aesthetic Ideas to Make Your Pictures Stand Out on Social Media. “This article lists and discusses some popular and unique aesthetics. It will also walk you through the process of creating them with the help of the PicsArt editing app. However, any comprehensive photo editing app will do.”
University of Southern Queensland: Unexplored Aboriginal rock art to share secrets of the past
University of Southern Queensland: Unexplored Aboriginal rock art to share secrets of the past. “It’s one of the richest bodies of rock art in the world but parts of the Laura Sandstone Basin in Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula have been virtually unexplored by archaeologists – until now. As one of 11 specialists from around Australia, University of Southern Queensland Professor of Archaeology/Anthropology Bryce Barker is a Chief Investigator on a research project, that promises to have profound findings about Australia’s past through the recording of unique rock art.”