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NEW RESOURCES
MotorTrend: It’s MotorTrend’s 75th Anniversary and We’re Celebrating With Cool Stuff For You!. “MotorTrend is further memorializing our legacy through the release of our archive in a digital format, available now. The MotorTrend Digital Archive features 75 years of MotorTrend issues dating back to 1949, all available for free right here.”
Smithsonian Magazine: A New Encyclopedia Explores Europe’s Smelly History. “Odeuropa has officially launched its products—a Smell Explorer search engine, which offers insight into how the past smelled, as well as how people described, depicted and experienced those smells, and the Encyclopedia of Smell History and Heritage, with entries ranging from car interiors to coffeehouses. Odeuropa also hosted a one-day Smell Culture Fair in Amsterdam on November 28 to share the overall project’s final results.”
Government of Canada: 1931 Census of Canada launch: phase two complete!. “Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce that in collaboration with Ancestry® and FamilySearch International, we are providing a free, searchable index of the 1931 Census of Canada through Census Search. This marks the completion of phase two of the plan to make the census accessible to Canadians on our website following the initial release of the census earlier this year.”
National Library of the Netherlands: Release of the Design Drawings Damage Atlas . “The Design Drawings Damage Atlas specifically assists in recognising and categorising damage on architectural design drawings. Additionally, it provides information on their management and preservation. It contains details about materials, techniques, signs of use, and damages. Furthermore, you can learn about the origins of the design drawings and their specific characteristics. All texts in the damage atlas are available in both Dutch and English…. The Design Drawings Damage Atlas can be ordered for free via our webshop.” I tried the webshop link and it gave me an error, so here is the direct link: https://webwinkel.kb.nl/product/schadeatlas-ontwerptekeningen-design-drawings-damage-atlas .
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Bloomberg: Musk’s X 2023 Ad Sales Projected to Slump to About $2.5 Billion. “Elon Musk’s X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is on track to bring in roughly $2.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2023 — a significant slump from prior years, according to people familiar with the matter.” Kind of amazed it’s still that high.
Mashable: Here’s every new emoji we got in 2023. “There isn’t much we ask for around here, but one of those things is new emojis. Thankfully, the Unicode Consortium heard our cries and blessed us with over 118 new emojis approved in 2023. However, this doesn’t mean they’re usable right now. In February, as part of its iOS 16.4 update, Apple added 21 emojis that were approved in 2022.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
WIRED: YouTube Is Now Hiding Which Channels Get a Cut of Ad Revenue. “YouTube unleashed an influential generation of new internet celebrities in 2007 when it started to share ad revenue with select video creators. For the past couple of years, a snippet of code on YouTube’s website revealed which channels are part of the secretive and exclusive club. But users and activists who had come to rely on that flag suddenly found themselves in the dark last month.”
BBC: Disney goes punk: TikTok sends Welsh covers band viral. “So how did a south Wales quartet end up playing Disney tunes and children’s TV theme music in a rock festival? Like many of the weird events of recent years, you can thank (or blame, depending on musical taste) Covid. A TikTok video of the band playing a cover of the Lion King’s Just Can’t Wait To Be King went viral as everyone was cooped up inside in 2020, and it snowballed.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
NBC News: Media Matters sues Texas attorney general over response to Elon Musk dispute. “Media Matters for America sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in federal court late Monday, alleging that Paxton violated the First Amendment last month and chilled its work when he opened an investigation into the organization over its reporting into Elon Musk’s X app.”
Courthouse News Service: Twitter investors’ suit against Elon Musk to proceed, judge rules. “A federal judge ruled Monday to advance a class action by Twitter investors against Elon Musk claiming that he manipulated Twitter stock leading up to his $44 billion buyout of the social media platform in April 2022.”
Salon: Jack Smith wants to use Trump’s Twitter account and phone data to track his steps on Jan. 6. “Special counsel Jack Smith has obtained Donald Trump’s cell phone data from his time in the White House and plans to use it as prosecutorial evidence as part of the former president’s election subversion trial in D.C., a Monday filing shows.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
John Scalzi: Abandoning the Former Twitter: A Four-Week Check-In. “Ultimately, however, I pretty strongly feel that whatever I got from old-school Twitter — good conversation, interesting things to read, a place to let people know what I’m up to — is now amply covered by [Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads.] Moreover, nearly everyone I know as a friend, colleague or notable personality/celebrity, has an outpost on at least one of these sites. Where these people go, their friends and fans will eventually follow. That’s bad news for the former Twitter, but then, Musk did that to himself.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 14, 2023 at 06:31PM
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