Via LLRX – Online Research Browsers and Data Visualization Tools 2021 – This guide by Marcus P. Zillman focuses on free and feed based research browsers and data visualization tools for research and analysis. These resources can be used to support legal research, legal marketing, business and competitive intelligence research, knowledge management and knowledge discovery, and… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2021
Resolutions to Censure the President: Procedure and History
CRS Report – Resolutions to Censure the President: Procedure and History Updated, February 1, 2021: “Censure is a reprimand adopted by one or both chambers of Congress against a Member of Congress, President, federal judge, or other government official. While Member censure is a disciplinary measure that is sanctioned by the Constitution (Article 1, Section… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 31, 2021
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 31, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
Resources for Tracking Federal COVID-19 Spending
CRS Report – Resources for Tracking Federal COVID-19 Spending, Updated February 1, 2021: “Congress has responded to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with supplemental appropriations measures providing relief and assistance to individuals and families, state and local governments, businesses, health care providers, and other entities. For more information, see CRS Report R46474, Laws Enacted… Continue Reading
Umberto Eco’s personal library
Tweet and video via @TedGioia who writes on music, literature and popular culture – “I once got to meet Umberto Eco—who was very memorable. But this film clip of him tracking down a book in his personal library makes him seem all the more impressive.” [worth waiting for 60 seconds!] Continue Reading
Why is my internet so slow?
ZDNet – “Here are 7 reasons and how to fix them Slow connections are the bane of anyone now working or studying at home. This is how to fix the most common problems.” Continue Reading
How Disinformation Campaigns Exploit the Poor Data Privacy Regime to Erode Democracy
Unger, Wayne, How Disinformation Campaigns Exploit the Poor Data Privacy Regime to Erode Democracy (December 14, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3762609 “The U.S. is under attack. It is an information war, and disinformation is the weapon. Foreign and domestic actors have launched information operations and coordinated campaigns against western democracies using dis/misinformation. While the U.S.… Continue Reading
Economy and COVID-19 Top the Public’s Policy Agenda for 2021
“As the United States faces twin crises of high unemployment and a global pandemic, large majorities of Americans want Joe Biden and Congress to prioritize strengthening the economy and addressing the coronavirus outbreak in the coming year. Yet there are wide partisan gaps over most of the 19 items asked about in a new Pew… Continue Reading
Testing positive after the vaccine
The New York Times – The scattered reports from around the country can play like a cruel irony: Someone tests positive for the coronavirus even though they have already received one or both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. How can that happen? Experts say cases like these are not surprising and do not indicate that… Continue Reading
How America Changed During Donald Trump’s Presidency
Pew – “Donald Trump stunned the political world in 2016 when he became the first person without government or military experience ever to be elected president of the United States. His four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a figure unlike any other… Continue Reading
