“The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years – we’re here to make sure you’re prepared. This website is a resource to educate the public about the main elements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) After four years of preparation and debate the GDPR… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2018
Guardian – American reams: why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened
We have been told the paperless office is coming – for decades. I have seen examples of individual offices in various work places whose occupants contend that, “no paper means I am doing my job efficiently.” Really! I have a 20 year old photo that I refer to, for both a chuckle and to illustrate… Continue Reading
NOAA Storm QuickLooks for the Nor’easter impacting Eastern coast of nation
NOAA Storm QuickLooks for the Nor’easter impacting Eastern coast of nation https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/quicklook/view.html?name=EARLY_JANUARY_2018 See also Vox – The bomb cyclone isn’t a winter hurricane — just a bad storm with good branding – A meteorologist explains the storm about to hit the East Coast. Continue Reading
Politico – How the federal government hides sexual harassment payouts
Executive branch agencies don’t uniformly track claims or report details of settlements paid out via a federal fund – “Requests for information about the broad scope and total cost of sexual harassment settlements from the Treasury Department, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and more than a dozen federal agencies yielded no clear answers. An administration… Continue Reading
Automated, live fact-checks during the State of the Union? Tech & Check Cooperative’s first beta test hopes to pull it off
NeimanLab: “Instead of watching the upcoming State of the Union address with snide fact-checks from users on Twitter or other social media in the background, viewers will be able to see instantaneous fact-checking appear on their device screen as soon as President Trump utters a claim — or at least that’s the dream for Bill… Continue Reading
Europeana Migration – collaborative project focused on cultural heritage of migration
“At a time when the word ‘migrant’ is often accompanied by the word ‘crisis’, we at Europeana are focusing our 2018 activities on gathering and enriching Europe’s cultural heritage relating to migration in cooperation with museums and the people of Europe. Making Europe richer – From folklore and traditions to visual arts, our cultural heritage… Continue Reading
NYT – The Case for the Subway – It built the city of New York. The city must rebuild it to survive.
The New York Times Magazine, Jonathan Mahler: “…As New York evolved over the decades, the subway was the one constant, the very thing that made it possible to repurpose 19th-century factories and warehouses as offices or condominiums, or to reimagine a two-mile spit of land between Manhattan and Queens that once housed a smallpox hospital… Continue Reading
GPO Completes Digitization of Historical Congressional Record 1873-1890
“In cooperation with the Library of Congress, the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has completed the digitization of all historical issues of the Congressional Record dating to the first appearance of this publication on March 5, 1873. The final release of this project, covering the period 1873-1890, is being made available to the public free… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – 2017: The Year of Change for the Legal Industry?
Via LLRX – 2017: The Year of Change for the Legal Industry? This commentary by attorney Nicolle Schippers offers insight and perspective on how technology has changed the paradigm of legal services and client communications in 2017. Looking forward to 2018, Schippers calls upon her colleagues to engage in a continuing dialogue to collectively deliver… Continue Reading
Coin Center – leading non-profit focused on policy issues facing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
“Based in Washington, D.C., Coin Center is the leading non-profit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency and decentralized computing technologies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our mission is to build a better understanding of these technologies and to promote a regulatory climate that preserves the freedom to innovate using permissionless… Continue Reading
Yahoo Search results driven by ads
ghacks.net: “If you visit Yahoo Search right now from a location in the United States, the chance is high that you get more ads on the search results page than organic results. A search for laptops, for instance, returns five ads at the top that fill most “above the fold” space, and another batch of… Continue Reading
Adweek – Tracking Metrics in Social 3.0
Opinion: Marketers are unsure if they can trust data from Facebook – “From impacting the most recent U.S. presidential election to internal workforce issues, Facebook received attention for reasons other than its network and ad platform in 2017. The topic weighing heaviest on marketers’ minds? The platform’s long list of measurement mistakes. Facebook is the… Continue Reading
