Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate Bell's data collecting - Media reports

• Bell's move to track customers' web history, TV viewing sparks probe by privacy  regulator Financial Post
• Privacy commissioner to investigate Bell's data collecting, CBC via Yahoo! Canada News
• Bell goes Big Brother, will track customers' web history, viewing, calls, mobile  usage. Hamilton Spectator
• Bell to collect customer personal information for marketing, targeted ads,  Toronto Star 
• Further updates: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
• See also All News releases: BCE Bell Canada Enterprises: Canada's Top Communication ...

Technology Can Expose Government Sins, But You Need Humans to Fix Them

Written by Lorelei Kelly, 

01 Oct 2013 CityWatch 

This article appeared first in the New America Foundation’s Weekly Wonk and ZocaloPublicSquare.org … connecting people and ideas.) 

EXTRACT:ZOCALO PUBLIC SQUARE-The National Security Agency, in its surveillance, is unaccountable. But we don’t know what to do about it. Why?
At a recent meeting on Capitol Hill, a young Congressional staffer offered the answer. He said:
People think that tweeting or commenting online about the surveillance is actually doing something to hold the surveillance accountable. In other words, we’re confused about the connection between transparency and accountability. We haven’t defined the difference between using this era’s technological tools to shine a light on how government works and using this era’s technological tools to hold the government accountable. 
... According to calculations by the Sunlight Foundation, today’s Congress is operating with about 40 percent less staff than in 1979. According to the Congressional Management Foundation, it’s also contending with at least 800 percent more incoming communications. Yet, instead of helping Congress gain insight in new ways, instead of helping it sort and filter, curate and authenticate, technology has mostly created disorganized information overload. And the information Congress receives is often sentiment, not substance. Elected leaders should pay attention to both, but need the latter for policymaking.
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Frequently Asked Questions in Libraries - Role of Knowledge Managers

Reading now: Unshelved Volume 6: Frequently Asked Questions by Bill Barnes

On the same shelf:

• Frequently Asked Questions - Ohio State University Libraries 

Extract:"The Ohio State University Knowledge Bank proposes to create a knowledge management system for the university that will encourage and support the creation, organization, storage, dissemination and preservation of the institution’s digital information assets. It is intended to be both a “repository” that captures the intellectual output of the university produced in a digital format, as well as a “referatory” providing links to digital objects."

Organization of Islamic Knowledge by Haroon Idrees

Found two intensive research articles  on  the subject, both by by Haroon Idrees @ Academia.edu:

• Library Classification Systems and Organization of Islamic Knowledge: Current Global Scenario and Optimal Solution
• Classification of library materials on Islam: a literature survey

About Haroon Idrees: IRI, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and  Berlin School of Library & Information Science, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

On the same shelf:

Google's Gmail and Personal Knowledge Management: Whatz Up in 2013

Is The New Gmail Better For Users Or Marketers? By Chris Crum WebProNews

Extract:
"You can go to the gear icon, and click “Configure inbox” to set up the new style if Google hasn’t pushed it to you.
The main difference is that the new interface separates your emails into different tabs. There are tabs for: Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums. You’ll probably get the first four by default, but you can adjust the settings to have whatever combination of these you want, including only Primary, which would make your inbox more like the classic Gmail.
Primary, according to Google, is reserved for messages from friends and family, and other messages that don’t appear in other tabs. Promotions is where deals, offers and other promotional emails reside (like email marketing messages from lists you’re subscribed to). Social is where you will see messages from social networks, media-sharing sites, online dating services, gaming platforms and other social sites. Updates is where you will find notifications like confirmations, receipts, bills and statements. Forums will include messages from online groups, discussion boards and mailing lists." continue reading Web Pro News.

   See also:

Google's Gmail Promises Personal Knowledge Management Online (2004) http://contentblogger.shore.com/

  How Nonprofits Can Navigate Gmail Tabs, Beaconfire Consulting 

What Do Users Think Of Google’s New Look? webpronews.com 

Paid news -- Media monitoring

Here is a quick look at whats up on the sujbect of a personalized &/or customized news service, generally aggregated by a newspaper (for its audience) or a third party (with an agenda or a business motive). See also: syndication

What is paid news? By Ashutosh Nandi, Cuttack, THE TIMES OF INDIA
Paid news or paid content are those articles in newspapers, magazines and the electronic media, which indicate favourable conditions for the institution that has paid for it. The news is much like an advertisement but without the ad tag. This kind of news has been considered a serious malpractice since it deceives the citizens, not letting them know that the news is, in fact, an advertisement. Secondly , the payment modes usually violate tax laws and election spending laws. More seriously, it has raised electoral concerns because the media has a direct influence on voters.

• 'Paid News': The Buried Report, The report they don't want you to read. Full text of the controversial report by the Press Council of India's subcommittee to probe the Paid News scandal, by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, K. Sreenivas Reddy http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?266542
• Major papers launch online paid news service, Jennifer SaBa, NEW YORK — The Globe and Mail
• The Pointlessness of Paid News Applications --Extract: "Now, I have nothing against paid content, great content  and journalism costs money to create and if it’s above average in quality, then I’m willing to pay.
  
  However, The Telegraph believes that its iPad application is synonmous with a pre-internet era printed newspaper, and is charging accordingly $1.99 per day. Per day! Or $16.99 per month."
• Who Would Pay for Online News? - Centre d'études sur les médias

Who is in this business?

• CANOE -- Technology: Papers launch online paid news service
• Five Best News Aggregators 
• 5 Best News Aggregators for getting the most out of your phone
• Comparing The New Aggregators: Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Float And More - paidContent.org, By Amanda Natividad