NEW RESOURCES

State Library of New South Wales Australia: The Lone Hand. “The Lone Hand (1907-1921), a sister publication to the famous Bulletin (1880-2008), has been digitised and made available through Trove. Modelled on the London Strand and founded by J.F. Archibald and Frank Fox, The Lone Hand was given the title originally preferred for the Bulletin itself. It was a monthly magazine of literature and poetry, with illustrations by significant Australian artists of the time. It was edited by Frank Fox (1907-09), A.H. Adams (1909-11), Bertram Stevens (1912-19) and Walter Jago (1919-21). Though Archibald set the magazine up, he never took a substantial editorial role.”

Pilipinas Popcorn: Online Martial Law Museum Aims To Educate The Youth On Philippine History. “A few days before the commemoration of martial law in the Philippine, the Ateneo de Manila University launched its online Martial Law Museum … which aims to teach the public, especially the youth about these ‘dark days’ in the country’s history. A CNN Philippines report describes the site as a ‘retelling of history through art with visual timelines, short films, poems, and artwork,’ a collaborative work of history scholars, artists, and students.”

UC Berkeley: Inside Rainbow Sign, a vibrant hub for black cultural arts. “From the outside, Rainbow Sign didn’t look like much. Housed in a modest building — previously a mortuary — it sat on the corner of Grove (now MLK Jr. Way) and Derby in Berkeley, a quiet, beige house with a tasteful, arched doorway. But on the inside was a vibrant black cultural arts center — a 1970s Bay Area hub for black art, music, cinema, literature, education and civic gathering — that drew cultural icons from across the country, from Maya Angelou and James Baldwin to Huey Newton and Nina Simone.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

WordPress 4.8.2 is now available. This is a security update so get with the patching.

CNET: Troll, ransomware, alt-right added to dictionary. “‘Internet of things’? Hasn’t the internet always been made up of things? If that phrase has ever confused you, know that you can now look it up in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which added more than 250 words and phrases on Monday.”

Library and Archives Canada has added a small Flickr album of streetcar images. I don’t mention every small album Library and Archives Canada puts up on Flickr, but I really liked the pictures in this one.

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Phys.org: Virtual reality breathes new life into African fossils, art and artefacts. “More digital avenues are being added to South Africa’s museums – and now the country has its first full VR exhibit. It will launch at the Origins Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg on 25 September and will take visitors on a journey through hundreds of thousands of years of human history, art and innovation. I am a Middle Stone Age archaeologist and ochre specialist, and have been part of the team putting the exhibit together over the past four months. Along the way, we’ve had to work out how to marry facts, interpretations, stories and technology. This hasn’t always been easy, but there have been a number of lessons along the way: most crucially, about the value of collaborative, interdisciplinary work to bring science to life.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

BetaNews: Avast opens up about CCleaner hack and outlines how it will protect users. “When news broke yesterday that CCleaner had been hacked and a dangerously modified version had been available to download for a number of weeks, there were understandable concerns from the program’s large userbase. And the concern is well-placed — some 2.27 million machines are thought to have installed the infected software. Avast now has something of a PR nightmare on its hands as it tries to rebuild the trust of its users. To this end, company CEO Vince Steckler and CTO Ondřej Vlček have written an article clarifying what happened with CCleaner, and give some details about how they plan to protect their customers — as well as ‘correct[ing] some misleading information that is currently circulating.'”

Naked Security: Chrome to brand FTP as “not secure”. “On 14 September, it was announced in a Chrome developers group that Chrome will mark FTP (File Transfer Protocol) resources in the address bar as ‘not secure.’ The change is expected to be made by the release of Chrome 63 in December 2017.” Good. It’s 2017, don’t use FTP. GoAnywhere’s got an overview on the differences between SFTP and FTPS.

RESEARCH & OPINION

Innovations in Pharmacy: Use of Class Facebook Groups to Disseminate
Evidence-Based Study Tips. “Objective: The purpose of this preliminary project was to determine the effectiveness of college administrators using Facebook® (FB) to disseminate information on study methods. Innovation: Eleven study tips in the format of riddles were posted in class FB groups as memes with links that lead to the riddle answers. Between 3.2-39.7% of students clicked on the links that accessed riddle answers. In a survey, 53.8% of respondents found the memes at least somewhat useful and 57.6% reported that they somewhat liked, liked, or liked them a lot. The average score on a study method knowledge assessment increased from 50% to 64%. Critical Analysis: The ratings of usefulness and likeability varied. However, students’ knowledge about the topic increased. Administrators considering using FB to share academic advice should post sparingly, begin posting when groups are initially formed and post early during the academic term.” Quick, interesting article. Good afternoon, Internet…

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