http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/022801.html
November 14, 2009
Commentary on Lawyers, Info Overload, Work Flow and Process Improvement
How Lawyers Can Address the Challenge of Too Much Information, by Sheldon I. Banoff
See also New Study Examines Technology Generation Gap in the Legal Workplace: "A national survey of legal professionals found that while technology is widely embraced among attorneys, significant gaps exist among generations regarding its use and application in the workplace. The newly released Technology Gap Survey found generational differences in the effect of technology on workplace etiquette, the blurring boundaries between personal and professional tasks, and the impact of technology overload. The survey - commissioned by LexisNexis, a leading provider of content-enabled workflow solutions - examined the impact of technology in the legal workplace."
You don't need to do this if you are absolutely, positively convinced that your machines are incorruptible. Note: You can't rely on your marketing department's assurances.
Hackers Fail To Crack Brazilian Voting Machines
Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 15, @01:55AM from the voting-envy dept.
blueser writes
"From Nov 10th to Nov 13th the Brazilian Government hosted a public hacking contest to test the robustness of its voting machines. 38 participants from private and public IT companies (including the Brazilian Federal Police) were divided into 9 teams, which tried several different approaches to try to tamper with the software installed on the machines, and even to physically interfere in other stages of the process. All attempts (aside from a minor one which would not compromise the overall results) failed, and observations from the participants and neutral observers will be taken into account to improve the process even further. Here is the official announcement for the contest (Google translation; Portuguese original). A summary of the results is available in the Brazilian press (original). Brazilian voting machines use Linux."
US voting officials ought to be envious of their Brazilian counterparts, or ashamed, or both. Perhaps this MIT-developed cryptographic voting system offers a way forward.
A minor variation on escrow services, but could it expand into a model for controlling Cloud services as well?
URL Shorteners Get Some Backup
Posted by kdawson on Saturday November 14, @05:28PM from the keeping-it-real-short dept.
URL shorteners are problematical, as everybody knows, but with the rise of Twitter and its ilk they seem to be a necessary part of the landscape. Some of the biggest questions around services such as bit.ly, TinyURL, and is.gd is what happens when they go out of business (as tr.im did last August). Now a group of such companies, organized under the auspices of the Internet Archive, has formed a non-profit entity to hold URL-shortening databases in escrow, with the intent of continuing to resolve a member company's links should it get out of the business. At announcement, the 301Works organization has 21 URL-shortener members, including the largest, bit.ly. Many others are not (yet) on board. The members have agreed to cede control of their domain names to 301Works.org should they exit the field, and to back up their URL mappings regularly to the organization.
(Related) The flip side of URL shorteners
Unhid
With unhid.co.cc you can easy preview short URLs from every shortening service like http://tinyurl.com revealing where they really go!
For the Hacker Folder? Another “dodge the RIAA” tool.
http://torrentfreak.com/httptorrents-download-torrents-without-bittorrent-091114/
HttpTorrents: Download Torrents Without BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on November 14, 2009
KickassTorrents is without doubt one of the most innovative torrent sites around. It is the only torrent search engine we know of that corrects spelling mistakes and also allows users to fully customize the look of the site’s homepage.
Those who take a few minutes to browse through the site will discover all kinds of other neat features. One of the latest additions to the site is the option to download files directly, through partner site httpTorrents.
The integration with httpTorrents gives users the option to download the files directly without having to use a BitTorrent client.
… The owner of the site told TorrentFreak that direct http downloads may be useful to users who have restricted access to BitTorrent, such as those whose ISP or firewall blocks or slows down transfers. There are currently 4000 files available as a direct download, but this number is growing rapidly.
I haven't seen much on digital libraries recently.
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The Arcadia Project Blog
The Arcadia Project is a three-year project funded by a generous grant from the Arcadia Fund to explore the role of academic libraries in a digital age.
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