NEW RESOURCES
ACLU: ACLU Marks the Supreme Court Term with New Digital Museum Experience Highlighting Landmark SCOTUS Cases. “Today, the ACLU launched The People’s Archive, a dynamic digital museum that combines photography, audio, print, and video chronicling the organization’s key civil rights and civil liberties milestones throughout its over 100-year history.”
Duke University Libraries: Wesley Hogan on preserving young people’s voices in the historical record. “Dr. Wesley Hogan, is a Research Professor at the Franklin Humanities Institute and Department of History. Dr. Hogan has published the Youth Activists Oral Histories Collection within the Duke Research Data Repository (RDR). These oral histories were collected as part of Dr. Hogan’s Fall FOCUS Program class, ‘US Racial Justice and Environmental Justice Youth Movements since 2010.’ She shared with us her thoughts on partnering with Duke University Libraries to archive and share humanities data for future scholars.”
University of Hawaii: Hurricane Nolo’s path, rainfall impacts mapped in new interactive website. “The University of Hawaiʻi’s Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal (HCDP) team has launched a new interactive website that allows the public to explore how Hurricane Nolo affected weather across the Hawaiian Islands, from its first rain bands over Hawaiʻi Island to the heavy rainfall that later drenched Kauaʻi and Oʻahu. Among the notable observations, Hawaiʻi Mesonet stations recorded storm rainfall totals exceeding 20 inches at three locations on Hawaiʻi Island, while a United States (U.S.) Geological Survey gauge at Mount Waiʻaleʻale on Kauaʻi recorded more than 38 inches.”
USEFUL STUFF
Juha-Matti Santala: Double check your website’s alt texts with a bookmarklet. “I built Alt text debugging bookmarklet (ATDB among friends as it rolls off the tongue nicely), a quick tool for website developers and authors to check the status of alt texts of images on a site. I use it daily with my own website and blog posts as a one last double check before I publish to make sure I didn’t forget to add alt texts to some images and that those that are decorative, have correct empty alt texts.”
AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
Tubefilter: Can YouTube’s €8.4 billion economic contribution get it a better deal in Europe?. “For the second year in a row, YouTube has brought its Economic Impact Report across the pond. The eminent platform broke down its capital contributions across Europe as part of its effort to promote more harmonious dealings with continental regulators and media companies. The report claims that YouTube’s creator economy added €8.4 billion to the European gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025. That ecosystem supported more than 220,000 of what YouTube calls ‘full-time equivalent’ (FTE) jobs.”
NiemanLab: When Slate went back to its 1996 homepage, it learned some web design lessons for 2026. “The fonts are Times New Roman and Arial Narrow, the colors are maroon and mustard, and the cursor is the 8-bit pixel hand. When Slate revived its original 1996 homepage to celebrate its 30th birthday this fall1, the team found a lot to like besides nostalgia.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
US Naval Academy: U.S. Naval Academy Announces New School – Autonomous Systems. “The United States Naval Academy (USNA) announced a major academic restructuring today that will establish both a standalone school for computing, cybersecurity, super intelligence, robotics and autonomous systems and a standalone school of engineering.”
Associated Press: Blockbuster-era law governing privacy of video rentals gets a fresh look from the Supreme Court. “In 1988, Congress enacted a law to protect the privacy of video rentals after a journalist published details of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork’s movie rental history during his Senate hearings. Nearly four decades later, the court is weighing how the Blockbuster-era statute fits into the modern age of digital commerce.”
The Register: ‘123456’ password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people. “A person claiming responsibility for the breach of Denmark’s Central Register of Persons (CPR) says they gained access through an IT company’s account protected by the password ‘123456.’”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Yale Daily News: Yale Library ramps up digitization amid drop in physical item circulation. “Between 2016 and 2025, circulation of physical library materials through the Yale Library fell about 65 percent, from about 381,000 items in 2016 to about 132,000 items in 2025, according to Patricia Carey, the director of communications strategy for the library. Several librarians said they are looking to increase student engagement with library resources through increased digitization efforts.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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