The Junk News Aggregator: Examining junk news posted on Facebook, starting with the 2018 US Midterm Elections – Dimitra (Mimie)Liotsiou, Bence Kollanyi, Philip N. Howard (Submitted on 23 Jan 2019) arXiv.org > arXiv:1901.07920. “In recent years, the phenomenon of online misinformation and junk news circulating on social media has come to constitute an important and… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2019
Can impeachment appear legitimate in a hyper-partisan universe?
Washington Post: “…Placing this power in Congress rather than the courts makes impeachment as much a political process as a legal one. But calling it political does not denigrate impeachment; it elevates it. Impeachment should be political, reflecting the nature of impeachable offenses and the judgments that should be brought to bear when considering it.… Continue Reading
Be safe on the internet.
An open source checklist of resources designed to improve your online privacy and security. Check things off to keep track as you go. – Take 10 minutes to read this article and consider applying one or more of the suggestions. I did and the applications work really well. I have been recommending one of the… Continue Reading
Google Cybersecurity Quiz Could Help Keep Your Email From Becoming Phishing Food
Fortune: “Has one of your accounts been hacked lately? Your email? Your Instagram? If so, you may have been the victim—and possibly an unwitting collaborator—in a phishing scam. Phishing is the most common form of cyber attack, and the goal of phishing emails is simple: to obtain your password and take over your account. Often,… Continue Reading
A Fine Way to Encourage Reading
Know I Know: “Imagine a bookstore that worked on a membership program — instead of buying books, you rented them. And instead of paying a per-book rental fee, they baked that cost into the cost of the membership. There are some limits on the number of books you can rent out at a time, but… Continue Reading
Practice Innovations: The Rise of Next Generation CI
“Practice Innovations” is a quarterly, online newsletter that examines best practices and innovations in law firm information and knowledge management with an eye toward better management strategies in the face of a changing legal environment. “The results are in: law firms with highly effective competitive intelligence (CI) functions perform better, over time than their peers,… Continue Reading
Working Group to Advance Well-Being in the Legal Profession
“The Working Group to Advance Well-Being in the Legal Profession was created to examine and make recommendations regarding the current state of attorney mental health and substance use issues with an emphasis on helping legal employers support healthy work environments. The Working Group was formed in September 2017 at the request of Immediate Past-President Hilarie… Continue Reading
Google – Talk to Books
“In Talk to Books (Beta), when you type in a question or a statement, the model looks at every sentence in over 100,000 books to find the responses that would most likely come next in a conversation. The response sentence is shown in bold, along with some of the text that appeared next to the… Continue Reading
Facebook Graph Codes and Operators
Facebook Graph Search Operators – Collated by Paul Myers See also from the same author – How to use Facebook Graph Search – “Experienced researchers know that Facebook’s search box has very limited and unpredictable functionality. However, there are tricks that can be used to squeeze a better search out of the world’s most popular… Continue Reading
Ask The Chefs: The Future Form Of Scholarly Communication
“It’s always a good time to think about the future, but somehow the beginning of the year seems an especially appropriate time. With the changes afoot in scholarly communication practices, sentiment, and business models, this couldn’t be a better time to consider what the target might look like. What are we all aiming for? For… Continue Reading
Six ways media outlets are tracking presidential candidates for 2020
Storybench: “If you’re still reeling from the round-the-clock coverage of the 2016 presidential election, we have some bad news: It’s starting all over again. With the midterms past us, the stage is now set for election fever to take over your favorite publications once again. And with the combination of President Trump’s low approval ratings… Continue Reading
Navigating the invisible boundary and physical barriers that define the U.S.-Mexico border
Washington Post report – Borderline – Navigating the invisible boundary and physical barriers that define the U.S.-Mexico border. “The Washington Post‘s digital project explores how we physically and legally define the border between Mexico and the U.S.” Please take time to review this report as it provides a comprehensive, detailed mapping of the entire border… Continue Reading
