Harvard Law Library director again in the news
News from the Berkman Center at HLS: Internet Safety Technical Task Force Releases Final Report on Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies Findings To Be Presented Today at State of the Net...
View ArticleDispatch from Seattle on the Association of College and Research Libraries...
Our Serials and E-Resources librarian Brian Provenzale just returned from Seattle where he attended the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) conference, and files this very interesting...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s social-networking maven
From a feature article in today’s San Jose Mercury News, “Obama’s Bay Area brain trust:” Sonal Shah Google.org The White House hasn’t made it official, but Google.org’s Shah has e-mailed her work...
View ArticleOn the front lines of Twitter with founders Stone and Williams
From today’s Wall Street Journal (Saturday/Sunday, April 18 – 19, 2009, p. A11): THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW with Evan Williams and Biz Stone / By Michael S. Malone The Twitter Revolution From the article:...
View ArticleData.gov and GovFresh.com
Remixing government data “Last year, before he took on the role of federal chief information officer, Vivek Kundra came up with a new twist on the idea of government by the people: Let the people build...
View ArticleMy need for a “focus assistant.”
Can technology offer us “continuous augmented awareness?” An earlier post here, commenting upon an article a year ago in The Atlantic, asked, “Is Google making us stoopid?” Now an article in the July...
View ArticleAardvark’s Answer Machine
Typing a question into a search engine and getting a specific, relevant answer hasn’t improved much since the 1957 librarian-favorite film Desk Set when EMMARAC (the Electromagnetic Memory and...
View ArticleMy good neighbor Facebook
A slow news day, but a few items caught my eye about Facebook, my new down-the-street, around-the-block neighbor. Today’s Financial Times has a full-page news analysis piece on Facebook, “What friends...
View ArticleThe One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for...
“The One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for Government 2.0″ Danielle Keats Citron University of Maryland School of Law Maryland Legal Scholarship Network RPS University of...
View ArticleUK MPs and the Use of Twitter
Microblogging, Constituency Service and Impression Mangaement: UK MPs and the Use of Twitter. Nigel Jackson and Darren Lilleker 17 Journal of Legislative Studies 86 (March 2011) Abstract: Twitter, a...
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