Tag Archives: digital content

The Promise And Peril Of Big Data | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

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“From health care to city management, we hold out a lot of hope for data–and even more, “Big Data”–to fix our problems. And, in many cases, it surely will. But the perils of personal information being freely available to all–from fraud, to identity theft, to authoritarian intrusion–are also clear. Data is a double-edged sword that’s just as likely to deprive us of our individualism, as serve up the perfect, and personalized, 21st-century solution.”

via The Promise And Peril Of Big Data | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation.

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Google Reader – Resources for Alternatives

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I think Google has underestimated the number of Google Reader users. There has been a very vocal backlash from the bloggers, journalists, reporters, media personnel, and information professionals, etc. who use the service the most. Its very disappointing to me this service is being retired when its so useful. Personally, I use the service daily following over 100 blogs on a variety of topics. Retiring Google Reader is not going to instantly make me sign up for Google+ or other Google products either. Fortunately alternatives are available and being improved in response.

Google Reader Retires July 1st: Options for When Google Sucks | Stephen’s Lighthouse

3 Great Alternatives To Gooogle Reader and How to Transfer Your Feeds Before The Shut Down | iLibrarian

8 Google Reader Alternatives That Will Ease Your RSS Pain | Gizmodo

Check Out These Google Reader Alternatives | Mashable

Resources for Digital Learning – The Digital Shift

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Resources for Digital Learning – The Digital Shift.

Includes resources on:

  • research/curation
  • ebooks/reading
  • common core
  • tools
  • apps
  • big picture

The Digital Shift | Librarian Cites ‘Concerning’ Trends in Digital Collection Development

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Librarian Cites ‘Concerning’ Trends in Digital Collection Development – The Digital Shift.

Collection of Links: SEO and Libraries

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Libraries can leverage SEO as another avenue to investigate in confirming their importance to communities and increasing visibility of their services. Here are some useful links.

Mashable | Harvard Secretly Searched Campus Emails in Internal Investigation

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Precedent setting and a good case study in the limitations of privacy in employee emails.

In fact, the statement continued, “no ones emails were opened and the contents of no one’s emails were searched by human or machine,” and the search was limited to “a partial log of the metadata – the name of the sender and the time the emails were sent.” 

via Harvard Secretly Searched Campus Emails in Internal Investigation | Mashable

Harvard University administrators secretly searched deans’ email accounts, hunting for media leak | Boston.com

“News of the incident could nonetheless anger Harvard faculty members, whose privacy in electronic records is protected under a Faculty of Arts and Sciences policy.

“Resident deans are not professors, but they teach. At issue is how much privacy they should expect.”

It further said that Smith – a computer scientist with expertise on privacy issues — “would agree entirely with taking steps that found the right balance between our needs to respect the privacy of our employees and to protect the privacy of our students.”

Huffington Post | Da Vinci Notebook: British Library Publishes Full Collection And More Arts News

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Another amazing digital library…

Da Vinci Notebook: British Library Publishes Full Collection And More Arts News via Huffington Post.

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Mashable | Free Database of the Entire Web May Spawn the Next Google

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Common Crawl, and subsequent spin off projects, is an organization I believe librarians should be following closely. It would be great for library and information service professionals to be involved with some of these projects. I could also see the government and educational institutions providing funding for research proposals analyzing some of the data.

“A nonprofit called Common Crawl is now using its own web crawler and making a giant copy of the web that it makes accessible to anyone. The organization offers up more than 5 billion web pages, available for free so that researchers and entrepreneurs can try things otherwise possible only for those with access to resources on the scale of Google’s.”

via Mashable | Free Database of the Entire Web May Spawn the Next Google.

Stephen’s Lighthouse | Major NEW and Must-Read Pew Report on Libraries

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Major NEW and Must-Read Pew Report on Libraries – Stephen’s Lighthouse.

Data-Visualization Firm’s New Software Autonomously Finds Abstract Connections | Wired Design | Wired.com

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“Ayasdi, a company that has developed data visualization software it says uses big data to answer the questions you never thought to ask…Their new product is called the Iris Insight Discovery platform. It’s a type of machine learning that uses hundreds of algorithms and topological data analysis to mine huge datasets before presenting the results in a visually accessible way. Using algebraic topology, the system automatically hunts down data points close in nature and maps these out to reveal a network of patterns for a researcher to decipher…”

via Data-Visualization Firm’s New Software Autonomously Finds Abstract Connections | Wired Design | Wired.com.