QOTD: Google on lots of copies keeping stuff safe
QOTD: Google agrees that “Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe.” Though Google at one time tried to offer customers the ability to store their data in one location in response to requests, it does not offer that feature now because it determined it was illogical, the person said. Google decided data is more secure if […]
NSA, you know, for kids!
Doc of the day! The NSA’s website for kids! I hope someone carefully preserves this. I imagine it will be an important cultural artifact some day when we look back at the National Security Agency and the recent revelations about its spying on everyone. And don’t forget: “Crypto Cat®, Decipher Dog®, Rosetta Stone®, Slate®, Joules™, […]
Readers or Consumers? Citizens or Customers?
Are users of government information citizens or “customers”? What would Ranganathan say? Barbara Fister addresses the topic of library attitudes to their communities in her newest post on InsideHigherEd Books Are For Use, by Barbara Fister, Inside Higher Ed. Library Babel Fish (January 23, 2014). I have argued that as we increased access to information […]
Private Sector Use of Government Data
The Governance Lab (The GovLab) at New York University is compiling a list of just “open data companies” — companies powered at least in part by open government data. The GovLab @ NYU Releases Preview of the First Comprehensive Study of Companies Using Open Government Data, by Laura Manley GovLab Blog NYU, (December 17, 2013). […]
Map of Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks
This time-series animated map of vaccine-preventable outbreaks world-wide from the Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, and other diseases that are easily preventable by inexpensive and effective vaccines. The data behind the map are downloadable as a comma-separated-value (.csv) file. Vaccine-preventable outbreaks, […]