Center for Western Priorities: “U.S. taxpayers could be on the hook for billions of dollars in oil and gas well cleanup costs Federal oil and gas bonding levels have not changed since the 1950s and 60s, despite deeper wells and rising reclamation costs. A new report from the Center for Western Priorities estimates the costs… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2018
WaPo – Spring arriving 20 days early – this is not good
The Washington Post: “For the second year in a row, spring has sprung early. In the Mid-Atlantic, cherry blossoms started to pop out of their buds in mid-February, and the crocuses have all but come and gone. Temperatures have dipped below freezing on only five mornings this February in the District, and nature is playing… Continue Reading
Dead Reckoning – Navigating Content Moderation After “Fake News”
Data & Research Institute White Paper – Dead Reckoning – Navigating Content Moderation After “Fake News”, Robyn Caplan, Lauren Hanson, and Joan Donovan, February 2018. “Fake news” has become an intractable problem and reckoning with it requires mapping new pathways for online news verification and delivery. Since the 2016 election, the phrase has been a… Continue Reading
Media Manipulation – Efforts to exploit technical, social, economic and institutional configurations of media
The Media Manipulation Initiative (MMI) examines how different groups use the participatory culture of the internet to turn the strengths of a free society into vulnerabilities, ultimately threatening expressive freedoms and civil rights. Efforts to exploit technical, social, economic, and institutional configurations of media can catalyze social change, sow dissent, and challenge the stability of… Continue Reading
The Grand Old Tradition of Gaming at the Library
JSTOR Daily: “Visit your local public library today and you may find rows of kids playing computer games, or even a couple of Xboxes. That might seem like evidence that libraries have drifted from a pure focus on the printed word. But, as gaming scholar Scott Nicholson finds, gaming at the library is a tradition… Continue Reading
BUNET: Screenshots of the FBI’s Internal Website
AltGov2: “BUNET is the FBI’s internal, employees-only website (a/k/a intranet). As far as I can tell, it’s never been seen by the public until now. In August 2017, I [Russ Kick] filed a FOIA request for color screenshots of the homepage and of each page linked from the homepage. I received the PDF above. It… Continue Reading
Turmoil at the New York Times
Vanity Fair – Hive: “The Newsroom Feels Embarrassed”: Backfires and Explosions at The New York Times as a Possible Future Chief Re-Invents the Paper’s Opinion Pages – “A yoga-pants refusenik, a climate-science skeptic, and a tech writer with a neo-Nazi pal, among other offenders, have put James Bennet in the crosshairs.” “Leading the country’s most… Continue Reading
Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say
The Guardian.com: “Children are increasingly finding it hard to hold pens and pencils because of an excessive use of technology, senior paediatric doctors have warned. An overuse of touchscreen phones and tablets is preventing children’s finger muscles from developing sufficiently to enable them to hold a pencil correctly, they say. “Children are not coming into… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – The Library – An Indispensable Resource for the Entire Law Firm
Via LLRX – The Library – An Indispensable Resource for the Entire Law Firm – Small and midsize law firms are benefiting from a range of agile, expert, value added services increasingly provided by Library team members in collaboration with firm colleagues in Conflicts, Finance and Marketing. Diana Koppang articulates the strategic impact of this… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Barnes & Noble lays off hundreds of experienced employees, may not be long for this world
Via LLRX – Barnes & Noble lays off hundreds of experienced employees, may not be long for this world. Chris Meadows explains the rapid descent of the only remaining national bookstore chain and the impending impact on the bookselling landscape, including on the stores’ employees and customers. Continue Reading
WSJ – Protect the News From Google and Facebook
WSJ Opinion – “The news business is suffering, but not because people don’t want news. They do—more than ever. The problem is that the money generated by news audiences flows mostly to Google and Facebook, not to the reporters and publishers who produce excellent journalism. The Duopoly now captures 83% of all digital ad revenue… Continue Reading
Help Build a Database of Ancient Graffiti from Pompeii and Herculaneum
Hyperallergic – The Ancient Graffiti Project is now fundraising to conduct fieldwork of graffiti at Herculaneum this summer. “Since the 1800s, archaeologists have found several thousand examples of these notes at Pompeii, and hundreds at Herculaneum. They appear in public settings, left like latrinalia or tags, and even inside private houses. Scholars consider them an ancient… Continue Reading
