“This is how journalists figure out if all those Ukraine videos are real. Visual forensics allows reporters to pinpoint the location of images emerging from the conflict and verify their authenticity…While some newsrooms have their own teams (The Post has seven people doing this work, and the Times has a team of 17), there’s also a large online community of independent sleuths sharing their findings with one another. Bellingcat, a global investigative corps that’s been a pioneer in this kind of open-source work, particularly in Ukraine, has been helping to verify incidents on a crowdsourced map with the London-based nonprofit Center for Information Resilience…”
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Daily Archives: March 6, 2022
You’ll probably need a second Covid booster shot – here’s when experts say it could happen
CNBC: “Pandemic restrictions may be easing across the country, amid declining Covid cases — but experts say the virus is going to stick around for a long time. That likely means you’ll need another Covid booster shot sometime in the future. The big question is: When? There have been mixed reports on the matter. The… Continue Reading
Ten new books to read this Women’s History Month
Oxford University Press: “Since 1987, Women’s History Month has been observed in the US annually each March as an opportunity to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. This month, we’re sharing some of the latest history titles covering a range of eras and regions but all charting the lives… Continue Reading
Visualizing the Active Conflict Zone in Ukraine
Center for Data Innovation – “The Economist has created a visualization depicting changes to commercial flights through Ukrainian airspace after the EU Aviation Safety Agency labeled it an active conflict zone. The visualization shows the flight paths of planes over Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia on February 23rd and 24th. According to the visualization, pilots have… Continue Reading
The American Oversight nonprofit organization has published more than 10,000 sets of documents
“The American Oversight nonprofit organization has published more than 10,000 sets of documents amounting to more than a million pages of records, as well as the FOIA requests and responses that produced those records. They can be viewed and searched here: https://www.americanoversight.org/documents. American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by… Continue Reading
NSA report: This is how you should be securing your network
ZDNET: “The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new report that gives all organizations the most current advice on how to protect their IT network infrastructures from cyberattacks. NSA’s report ‘Cybersecurity Technical Report (CTR): Network Infrastructure Security Guidance‘ is available freely for all network admins and CIOs to bolster their networks from state-sponsored and… Continue Reading
Good Riddance to Amazon’s Terrible Bookstores
The New Republic – “Amazon is as dominant as ever—and its retail ambitions aren’t going anywhere. But booksellers can toast the end of its disastrous foray into their turf. America’s worst bookstore chain is no more. On Wednesday, Amazon announced it would be closing all 68 of its brick-and-mortar bookstores, as well as its “4-Star”… Continue Reading
Data Services Librarians’ Responsibilities and Perspectives on Research Data Management
Bishop BW, Orehek AM, Eaker C, Smith PL. Data Services Librarians’ Responsibilities and Perspectives on Research Data Management. Journal of eScience Librarianship2022;11(1): e1226. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2022.1226. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol11/iss1/4. This study of data services librarians is part of a series of studies examining the current roles and perspectives on Research Data Management (RDM) services in higher education.… Continue Reading
A new iron curtain is descending across Russia’s Internet
Washington Post: “Advocates of an open, globally connected Internet long have worried that a major country or region would break away from the Web amid geopolitical strife, dashing hopes of a seamless network capable of uniting a fractious world. Little more than a week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world is coming closer to… Continue Reading
We Must Lead on Digital Equity
American Libraries – “We’ve come a long way since 1994, when a study found that only 21% of public libraries had an internet connection. By 2004, more than 99% of them offered connectivity. Today, nearly 30 years later, libraries are technology hubs where patrons can learn the skills needed to navigate a vast digital world… Continue Reading
