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It ain't all out there, on the Internet or otherwise. An ILL librarian tells it like it is.
The New Orleans Advocate recently published a shocking story that details the very real threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by law enforcement access to private genetic databases and
It's time for Congress to fix the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act.
Around the year 2007, just after Thanksgiving, my grandmother noticed a tiny seed near the faucet of her kitchen sink that had somehow, implausibly,...
Fairfax Media's decision to ship up to eight million historic NZ news photographs and negatives to Little Rock, Arkansas, for "digitising" has proved perilous.
I got to attend the most awesome presentation, and since there really isn’t a better place to write about it, y’all are just going to have ...
The Entertainment Software Association doesn’t want anyone to restore the functionality of older videogames that are no longer supported by their publisher, because, says ESA, this is “hacking,” and
I was interviewed for an upcoming news article in Nature about the problem of link rot in scientific publications , based on the recent Kle...
Go, Billington. Before you become even more of an embarrassment.
More on the digitization-outsourcing disaster.
Digitization-outsourcing DISASTER.
Police Scotland admits it lost 20,000 stop and search records because "the wrong button was pressed".
Scientific discussions, student information both protected from disclosure.
Steve Leggett, program coordinator of the National Film Preservation Board at the Library of Congress (LC), laughs as he retells this Hollywood urban legend. Nevertheless the story contains truth. Scores of films were destroyed during cinema’s early years by studios that viewed silents as obsolete. These silent classics were not seen as works of art … Continue reading Saving Our Celluloid Past →
"Inherent vice" in art.
The scandal over Hillary Clinton’s email evasion, it’s now clear, goes way beyond Hillary Clinton. Take a look at the second paragraph of the New York...
"The bigger problem will be the projects that are in limbo... Google says that it will allow tarballs of projects (including source code, issues lists, and wiki pages) to be downloaded through the end of 2016. After that, however, it seems that the projects will be no more."
Apps and other software can put powerful teaching tools at teachers’ fingertips, but concerns abound over data security, effectiveness and marketing.
Perhaps her approach was more secure than using the government's e-mail.