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WordPress, Pacer, Museums, More: Morning Buzz, August 30th, 2014

Remixing EVERYWHERE: The British Library meets Burning Man.

WordPress has released the first candidate for WordPress 4.0.

Wondering why your GMail has all those weird ads? XRay might be able to tell you.

Wondering what theme a WordPress site is using? There’s a Web tool for that. (Thanks Robin Good!)

Pacer is deleting old court files because they’re “incompatible”. “On Aug. 10, the federal courts announced that older court records were being deleted from Pacer for federal appeals courts for the Federal Circuit, and the 2nd, 7th and 11th Circuits, report Legal Times, the Washington Post blog the Switch and the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. Older bankruptcy cases in the Central District of California were also removed. The files were deleted Aug. 11.” How wrong is this?

Lovely! Guy puts America’s museums onto a map – and then he supplemented the map with data from Wikipedia. (It’s amazing how many museums don’t have Web pages.

Google has made is security compliance audit report public. “The new reports and certificates now cover Google+ and Hangouts, which is nice, but the real news here is that Google is making both its ISO 27001 certificate and SOC 3 audit report easily available to anybody who wants to take a look. The SOC 3 report is about a 10-page document that summarizes the audit’s finding and lists the services that the auditors inspected. By default, this report is meant to be made public. The SOC 2 report is significantly more in-depth and runs a few hundred pages, but sadly Google isn’t making that one public.”

Do you have an HP laptop? Check your power cord. HP is recalling some power cords as fire hazards. There are over five million of these bad boys floating around out there, so check your cables!

A new project makes the pictures taken by the Farm Security Administration between 1935 and 1945 easier to explore. Among other things, over 90,000 of them are mapped.

Twitter has opened up its analytics dashboard to everybody. Now you can see how many more people see your posts on Twitter than Facebook, despite your Facebook fan page having far more followers. That’s what happened with me, anyway.

Dropbox Pro has added a couple new features as well as a terabyte of space for Pro subscribers. That’ll be handy.

The FBI has digitized millions of files in what it calls a “modernization push.” Good morning, Internet…

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