NEW RESOURCES

Kingtson Penitentiary Inmate Ledgers, 1913-1916, are now available on Flickr. “The ledger includes frontal and profile mug shots, the inmate’s name, alias, age, place of birth, height, weight, complexion, eye colour, hair colour, distinctive physical marks, occupation, sentence, date of sentence, place of sentence, crime committed, and remarks of authorities.”

The Seattle Police Department has a YouTube channel for its (redacted) body camera footage.

USEFUL STUFF

They can be very irritating: How to disable annotations in YouTube videos.

Larry Ferlazzo has a big list of resources for St. Patrick’s Day.

TorrentFreak does an extensive breakdown on VPN services. “VPN services have become an important tool to counter the growing threat of Internet surveillance, but unfortunately not all VPNs are as anonymous as one might hope. In fact, some VPN services log users’ IP-addresses and other private info for months. To find out how anonymous VPNs really are, TF asked the leading providers about their logging practices and other privacy sensitive policies.” (VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. Lifehacker has a good overview of what they are and why you’d want to use one here.

Social Media Examiner: How to find and remove fake followers on Twitter and Instagram.

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Fast Company Design thinks YouTube Kids is actually better than YouTube.

Apparently there’s a net culture out there which likes the way the Web looked in the mid-90s. Fine, just go easy on the blinky text.

Video NBA Pros wearing Google Glass.

RESEARCH AND OPINION

“Active” users on Facebook may be changing. “According to our data, over a quarter of Facebook members are now ‘logging in to see what’s happening without posting/commenting on anything.’ Tellingly, these Facebook ‘browsers’ are more likely to be using chat apps, more likely to be on smaller networks such as Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr, and more likely to be 16-24. All of these individuals will be counted as active by Facebook but, in reality, an active user in 2015 is quite different from an active user earlier in the decade.” Good morning, Internet…

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