NARA Blog – “The following are best practices for file naming. File names should: Be unique and consistently structured; Be persistent and not tied to anything that changes over time or location; Limit the character length to no more than 25-35 characters; Use leading 0s to facilitate sorting in numerical order if following a numeric… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Investigative Report – HUD is being deconstructured
ProPublica and New York Magazine joint reporting: “…HUD has long been something of an overlooked stepchild within the federal government. Founded in 1965 in a burst of Great Society resolve to confront the “urban crisis,” it has seen its manpower slide by more than half since the Reagan Revolution. (The HUD headquarters is now so… Continue Reading
New Yorker – Who Owns the Internet?
Who Owns the Internet? What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture. “…Today, just about everybody uses it for everything. Even as the Web has grown, however, it has narrowed. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per… Continue Reading
US Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress
CRS report via FAS – U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress. Ronald O’Rourke, Specialist in Naval Affairs; Michael Moodie, Assistant Director and Senior Specialist in Foreign, Affairs, Defense and Trade. August 17, 2017. “The overall U.S. role in the world since the end of World War II in 1945 (i.e., over… Continue Reading
GPO and LC partner on release of digitized Congressional Record 1931-1940
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) partners with the Library of Congress to release the digital version of the bound Congressional Record from 1931-1940 on GPO’s govinfo. This release covers debates and proceedings of the 72nd thru the 76th Congresses. This era of Congress covers historical topics such as: The Great Depression The last two… Continue Reading
OMB Memos, Circulars, Executive Orders and Other Policies
DigitalGov – OMB Memos, Circulars, Executive Orders and Other Policies Continue Reading
New on LLRX – You Don’t Need AI Or Robot Lawyers To Automate Your Law Firm
Via LLRX – You Don’t Need AI Or Robot Lawyers To Automate Your Law Firm – Nicole Black’s article addresses how solo and small law firms can effectively implement business process improvements using applications for critical tasks including time-tracking, billing, and invoicing. Continue Reading
Digital Regulation: Designing a Supranational Legal Framework for the Platform Economy
Finck, Michèle, Digital Regulation: Designing a Supranational Legal Framework for the Platform Economy (June 20, 2017). European Law Review (2018 Forthcoming); LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 15/2017. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2990043 “This paper examines digital data-driven platforms and their impact on contemporary regulatory paradigms. While these phenomena are increasingly proclaimed as paradigm altering in… Continue Reading
2017 International Data Base Update
“The U.S. Census Bureau’s International Data Base update provides revisions for 16 countries and areas. Revised estimates and projections are available for American Samoa, Angola, Botswana, Burma, Guam, Iran, Jordan, Liberia, Mali, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Tunisia, United States, U.S. Virgin Islands and Zimbabwe. The International Data Base is a series of estimates… Continue Reading
The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Center for Data Innovation: “Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to dramatically transform huge swathes of the economy and society for the better, and as the technology continues to make headlines many countries are developing plans to ensure they can take full advantage of these benefits. Below is a high-level overview of a number of… Continue Reading
The Patterns in Global Terrorism: 1970-2016
The Patterns in Global Terrorism: 1970-2016, by Anthony Cordesman, August 14, 2017 – “Terrorism has become one of the dominating national security threats of the 21st century. It is also one of the most complex — mixing the actions of states, extremists, and other non-state actors in a wide range of threats and types of… Continue Reading
Gallery of Images – 2017 Eclipse
View NOAA’s satellite imagery of the total solar eclipse. See also terrific video via http://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive (in Nebraska) NYT Archives: “85 years ago, NYT reported that after the total eclipse of 1932, the next opportunity to study one would be today.” TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017 from Green River Lake, WY. Ben Cooper@LaunchPhoto Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather… Continue Reading
