Wired’s How-To-Wiki has a detailed tutorial explaining Facebook’s privacy settings and how to Make Your Facebook Account Private. The article has detailed instructions and screenshots for locking down your profile. I would also suggest creating Friends Lists and using those to limit who sees particular status updates and photo albums.
via iLibrarian blog
Ghana’s Ministry of Education is running a trial to find out two things – firstly if the e-readers can pump up the percentage of Ghanian kids who who read, and secondly whether opting for ebooks can reduce some of the spending on textbooks that its schools are forced into. It’s being initially tested among 11-12-year-olds.
Testing will also take place in Rwanda and Kenya.
…early findings suggest that ebook readers would need to be reduced to a price of around $75 for the technology to become truly beneficial in third world classrooms.
Source: Pocket-lint via Resourceshelf
What we would like to do in this post is go over the facts and, where we don’t have the exact info we need, take educated guess at the answers. Keep in mind that things do change and, in some cases, further details need to discussed and decisions need to be made.
We read all of the primary documents (links are available), used the Google service, and were fortunate enough to have a telephone chat with a spokesperson from LC. We also read some “way out” stuff (e.g., the Library of Congress bought Twitter) but most of the time, just a fact or two were either missing or a bit “off”.
So, with all of that out of the way, let’s get to the details.
The Library of Congress Twitter Archive
...Update: The Library of Congress Twitter archive will not be accessible to and searchable by the general public on the Internet or at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. However, the archive will be accessible to researchers on-site at LC. Details about researcher access will be developed and made public in the next few months, but it’s likely a researcher will have to certify his or her identity by at least signing a form. Again, exact details are forthcoming... [There's a good deal more]
The Google Twitter Archive
Like most things Google, historical searching of tweets has a name. It’s called Google Replay.+ As of today, you CAN search using Google Replay only back to February 2010, with a minimal delay for new tweets. There is NO embargo/delay of tweets using Google Replay. “Eventually” (that term is not defined), the entire Twitter archive will be accessible and searchable using Google Replay by anyone from any computer that can access Google. BTW, this is what the Twitter home page looked like on September 30, 2006.
+ Google Replay uses the familiar Google timeline interface (as used with Google News for some time) where you can manipulate the timeline to narrow the focus to down to the minute. (Note the bar that sits on the timeline; it moves)
+ If you want to go directly to Google Replay, this link should get you there...
Summary
Both services are needed. Will others come into play.
The LC Archive is essential. It’s going to receive cutting edge preservation; it will allow qualified researchers from LC and elsewhere to mine the data; it might even create a new exhibit at LC. However, it’s not a publicly accessible research tool. I do wonder if people will show up wanting to use the database and not be able to. I would imagine the same thing happens regularly with LC users wanting to exit the library with LC materials. Or also — people phoning LC, asking if they have a particular book and whether they can get it sent to them.
Google Replay IS for the public. It IS searchable and it IS easily manipulated to assist in focusing a search query. As we said a moment ago, it IS accessible from any computer connected to the web that can reach Google.
Update: “Tweets: What We Might Learn From Mundane Details” (via AOTUS Blog from Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero. (Hat Tip: ArchivesNext)
From The Resourceshelf
By: Chris Jay Hoofnagle
University of California, Berkeley – School of Law, Berkeley Center for
Law & Technology
Jennifer King
UC Berkeley School of Information; Berkeley Center for Law &
Technology
Su Li
University of California, Berkeley- School of Law, Center for the Study
of Law and Society
Joseph Turow
University of Pennsylvania – Annenberg School for Communication
Media reports teem with stories of young people posting salacious photos online, writing about alcohol-fueled misdeeds on social networking sites, and publicizing other ill-considered escapades that may haunt them in the future. These anecdotes are interpreted as representing a generation-wide shift in attitude toward information privacy. Many commentators therefore claim that young people “are less concerned with maintaining privacy than older people are.” Surprisingly, though, few empirical investigations have explored the privacy attitudes of young adults. This report is among the first quantitative studies evaluating young adults’ attitudes. It demonstrates that the picture is more nuanced than portrayed in the popular media.
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A gap in privacy knowledge provides one explanation for the apparent license with which the young behave online. 42 percent of young Americans answered all of our five online privacy questions incorrectly. 88 percent answered only two or fewer correctly. The problem is even more pronounced when presented with offline privacy issues – post hoc analysis showed that young Americans were more likely to answer no questions correctly than any other age group.
From Resourceshelf
Strains of tuberculosis resistant to normal drug treatments (isoniazid and rifampicin) are spreading around the globe, the World Health Organization has reported. The story is also covered by the ‘Guardian', with links to related sources of information. An estimated 440,000 people worldwide had multi-drug-resistant forms of the disease (MDR-TB) in 2008 (the last year for which complete figures are available). One third of them died. Even more alarming is the extensively drug resistant form of the disease (XDR-TB), which is also resistant to second line treatments including fluoroquinolone antibiotics. XDR-TB first came to attention following an outbreak in 2006 in South Africa, which within 3 weeks killed all but one of 53 people infected. The WHO provides links to documents and news reports on MDR-TB and XDR-TB.
After HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis is the leading infectious disease as a killer of adults, leading to 1.8 million deaths a year, or one every 20 seconds. Drug resistance makes control a formidable undertaking, with the drug resistant forms of the disease costing 50-200 times more to treat than the ordinary kind, and involving two years of chemotherapy. Particularly high levels of resistance have been seen in parts of India, China and Russia, and there is a real risk that drug resistant TB could spread globally out of control. Intute : Medicine has links to more than 80 resources on tuberculosis.
Intute blog Posted April 16th, 2010 by Rob Abbott
Tobacco Legacy Library A digital library maintained by the University of California, San Francisco which provides free acess to 1,000s of documents relating to the tobacco industry which were produced by major companies such as British American Tobacco. They include materials relating to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities. They include trials, regulation by the state, documents seeking to promote smoking and cigarettes. There is an interesting collection of popular documents which focuses on the marketing of smoking to women, smoking and product placement in films and industry and scientific documents relating to passive smoking. Additional features of the site include the Tobacco documents bibliography which indexes and lists recent research articles and other publications on all aspects of the topic. And an excellent directory of links to related websites. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/
From Intute blog: Social Sciences
A team at the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust have shown that using Google to seek advice on common medical issues in children can lead to incorrect information. Paul Scullard and colleagues reported in the April issue of Archives of Disease in Childhood that Googling for information on such topics as autism and MMR vaccine, the sleeping position of a baby, what action to take with a baby producing green vomit, and breast feeding with mastitis or HIV, gave unreliable results. Of the 500 websites searched, 39% gave the correct answer, 11% were incorrect, and 49% didn’t answer the question. Government sites such as NHS Direct or NHS Choices gave uniformly accurate information. The story was also carried by BBC Health News... [more]
From Intute blog: Medicine
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...Often at work we research and produce data that will eventually assist ... alternatives to Microsoft's software - some of which are free... [more]
OpenOffice Presentation Tool
Google Presentations
Apple Keynote
Prezi
SlideShare
FUMSI article
Martin Belam is Information Architect at guardian.co.uk, and the Contributing Editor for Share at FUMSI. Over the last decade he has given countless presentations at conferences, where as much as possible he tries to avoid PowerPoint's default format bulleted lists. Martin blogs at currybet.net, and you can find some of his presentations of work from The Guardian and the BBC at http://www.slideshare.net/currybet
I love this quotation from: Knowledge in the Round: Information Management in a 3-D World By John O'Gorman
Fact: computers are stupid. Fast, but stupid. You would be fast, too if all you had to worry about were two dimensions. Yes or no, on or off, black or white, up or down, left or right... life would be pretty simple.
...Ah, college research papers -- it takes most students all four years to figure out how to complete them quickly and accurately (especially through hang-overs or Red Bull jitters).
Your secret weapon? The college reference librarian.
No, seriously. And here are some reasons why:
They can help get you started, even if you don't understand your topic... [more]
National Literacy Trust (UK) has produced a new toolkit on how to use the World Cup to inspire readers. Author and reading specialist Tom Palmer has produced a full and easy to use guide on what to do and how to do it;
The World Cup Toolkit