Sat.Apr 14, 2012 - Fri.Apr 20, 2012

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Direct Mail Ain’t Dead, Says Facebook

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’m a bit behind on my snail mail, so to procrastinate from writing anything useful on the book, I went through a pile that’s accumulated over the past week. Perhaps the most interesting piece of mail came from a very familiar brand: Facebook. The letter had all the trappings of direct mail – a presorted postage mark, impersonal address label, etc.

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Oracle's cloud launch: solid takeoff

Collaboration 2.0

Oracle appear to be executing very efficiently to serve the cloud era and are accelerating hard, while some of their competitors continue to discuss disjointed constructs, ideas and future plans

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HHS Finalizes Omnibus HIPAA Rule for OMB Review; Settles with Phoenix Cardiac Surgery Following OCR Investigation

Hunton Privacy

In the past month, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) sent its final omnibus rule modifying the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Enforcement Rules to the White House Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) and announced a $100,000 settlement with Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, P.C. for violations of the HIPAA Rules. Final Omnibus Rule. On March 24, 2012, the OMB received for review HHS’s final omnibus rule entitled “Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Noti

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Lessons from a real large scale digital preservation system

Preservica

While much is written about digital preservation, anyone looking to deliver a real system for large scale digital preservation will find little information about the realities of successfully delivering such a system. In his talk at PASIG 2012, Jason Pierson does just this. He describes FamilySearch’s ambitious project to digitise and preserve their vast collection of genealogical information.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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A Coachella “Fail-ble”: Do We Hold Spectrum in Common?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Neon Indian at Coachella last weekend. Last weekend I had the distinct pleasure of taking two days off the grid and heading to a music festival called Coachella. Now, when I say “off the grid,” I mean time away from my normal work life (yes, I tend to work a bit on the weekends), and my normal family life (I usually reserve the balance of weekends for family, this was the first couple of days “alone” I’ve had in more than a year.

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Canadian Privacy Authorities Release Accountability Guidance

Hunton Privacy

On April 17, 2012, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Alberta and British Columbia released guidance on their expectations for accountable privacy programs as required by Canadian law. The guidance, entitled “Getting Accountability Right with a Privacy Management Program,” discusses the building blocks of a comprehensive privacy program for businesses of all sizes.

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Incorporating emulation into a business-as-usual digital preservation workflow.

Preservica

Great piece by Euan Cochrane on his blog ( [link] ). We have just finished working on the KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) project. However, you are correct to say that most efforts have been focussed on migration: and we have a number of migration (and characterisation) tools supported in our Safety Deposit Box (SDB) solution. However, as part of KEEP we did add in an end-to-end emulation workflow to SDB as well.

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What Doesn’t the Valley Understand About Washington?

John Battelle's Searchblog

A few weeks ago I ventured to our nation’s capital to steep in its culture a bit, and get some first hand reporting done for the book. I met with about a dozen or so folks, including several scholars, the heads of the FCC and FTC, and senior folks in the Departments of Commerce and State. I also spoke to a lobbyist from the Internet industry, as well as people from various “think tanks” that populate the city.

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What Doesn’t the Valley Understand About Washington?

John Battelle's Searchblog

A few weeks ago I ventured to our nation’s capital to steep in its culture a bit, and get some first hand reporting done for the book. I met with about a dozen or so folks, including several scholars, the heads of the FCC and FTC, and senior folks in the Departments of Commerce and State. I also spoke to a lobbyist from the Internet industry, as well as people from various “think tanks” that populate the city.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.