Stanley Lubman – “Internet usage – especially microblogging on Sina Weibo, China’s largest Twitter-like social media site – is presenting new challenges and new attempts to meet them from a government determined to maintain control. In recent months Beijing has launched a multi-pronged offensive against online criticism of current policies and institutions that includes a… Continue Reading
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Twtrland – Search any skill, location or name
“Twtrland visualizes social footprints to help you discover new people, understand their impact and find better ways to connect and increase your network.” [Robert Ambrogi] “See a visual snapshot of your online presence on twitter and instagram. Unfold influence metrics, audience demographics, close network and much more. Find Influencers: +60,000 Skills, City Resolution – Easily find the true influencers in any… Continue Reading
EFF – Data Broker Acxiom Launches Transparency Tool, But Consumers Still Lack Control
EFF: “Acxiom, a data broker that collects 1,500 data points per person on over 700 million consumers total and sells analysis of such information, is trying to ward off federal privacy regulations by flaunting transparency—a diluted term, in this case—around user data. The company just launched AboutTheData.com, a site that will let users see and edit some information that Acxiom has about… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Competitive Intelligence: A Selective Resource Guide – September 2013
Via LLRX.com – Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – September 2013 Sabrina I. Pacifici’s comprehensive current awareness guide focuses on leveraging a selected but wide range of reliable, topical, predominantly free websites and resources. The goal is to support an effective research process to search, discover, access, monitor, analyze and… Continue Reading
UK Guardian guide to your metadata
“Metadata is information generated as you use technology, and its use has been the subject of controversy since NSA’s secret surveillance program was revealed. Examples include the date and time you called somebody or the location from which you last accessed your email. The data collected generally does not contain personal or content-specific details, but… Continue Reading
Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment
Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment Lev Muchnik, Sinan Aral, Sean J. Taylor. Science 9 August 2013: Vol. 341 no. 6146 pp. 647-651 DOI: 10.1126/science.1240466 “Our society is increasingly relying on the digitized, aggregated opinions of others to make decisions. We therefore designed and analyzed a large-scale randomized experiment on a social news aggregation Web… Continue Reading
72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users
72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users by Joanna Brenner, Aaron Smith. Aug 5, 2013 “The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has been studying online adults’ social networking site use since 2005, and has seen substantial growth since then. Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Although younger… Continue Reading
Privacy Best Practices for Social Media
Privacy Best Practices for Social Media, CIO Council, July 2013: “One of the Federal Government’s most important missions is to provide citizens, customers, and partners with easy access to government information and services. As society increasingly relies on social media as a primary source for information, it is clear that these platforms have an important… Continue Reading
The Digital Landscape in 2013 and its Impact on Communities
Personal. Portable. Participatory. Pervasive. The Digital Landscape in 2013 and its Impact on Communities by Lee Rainie July 18, 2013 at Community Foundations, brought together by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. “Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie discussed the new media ecosystem with leaders of community foundations from Western states and several other… Continue Reading
Library of Congress – A New Look for Legal Blawg Archive
“For more than six years, the Law Library of Congress has been collecting images of select legal blogs on a monthly basis. The Legal Blawg Archive was created so that the legal events detailed and analyzed in the blogs of today can be studied for years to come. Now this archive is available in an updated user interface… Continue Reading
Policy Paper – The Digital Diplomacy Revolution: Why is Canada Lagging Behind? by Roland Paris
The Digital Diplomacy Revolution: Why is Canada Lagging Behind? by Roland Paris, June, 2013 “The practice of international diplomacy is undergoing a revolution. As activists, private and public organizations, political leaders and mass publics embrace Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media, foreign ministries have come under increasing pressure to update their operating methods.… Continue Reading
Intelesense Beta Release of Collaborate.org at Annual Future in Review Conference
Collaborate.org “Collaborate.org combines an integrated suite of collaboration tools coupled with all of the world’s geospatial data at your fingertips.”Collaborate.org [from Intelesense Technologies] is a cloud based big data application that currently offers its members features including: Customizable dashboards that can provide easy configuration of the features that matter to the groups who operate a… Continue Reading
