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8% of online Americans use Twitter, Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, Lee Rainie, Director, 12/9/2010: “Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. It is an online activity that is particularly popular with young adults, minorities, and those who live in cities.”
Official YouTubeBlog: “Your creativity isnt bound by a time limit, so why should your video uploads be? Back in July we raised the upload limit to 15 minutes for all users. Starting today, well begin allowing selected users with a history of complying with the YouTube Community Guidelines and our copyright rules to upload videos …
Google’s first Chrome OS laptop – the Cr-48: “This is a tough one to sum up. It’s not a “real” product, in the sense that you can’t buy it. Still, it represents the infancy of a series of products that will be very real and probably pretty well priced. We can already see some reasons …
Huffington Post: “Empty nest parents, be warned: the number of adults aged 25 to 34 who are living with their parents has exploded, according to this rather shocking chart put together by economist Tom Lawler and posted on Calculated Risk. Earlier this year, a study published in the journal Transitions to Adulthood titled What’s Going …
EPIC: December 10 marks the United Nation’s annual International Human Rights Day, which celebrates the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration sets forth universal privacy rights in Article 12 and rights to freedom of expression in Article 19. The Declaration’s importance and influence is recognized in the U.S. State Department’s annual …
News release: “On Thursday December 9, 2010, the National Archives Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California opened 265 hours of White House Tapes, over 140,000 pages of presidential records and 75 hours of video oral histories. The materials will be available in the Nixon Library research room at 9 a.m. PDT. The Library is located …
Fiscal Stress Faced by Local Governments, December 9, 2010 “This Congressional Budget Office issue brief describes the economic conditions and budgeting practices that can lead to significant budgetary challenges–often termed fiscal stress–at the local level. The brief also reviews the options available to local governments, state governments, and the federal government for addressing such financial …
Strategic Use of Analytics in Government: “Governments use analytics (often described as business intelligence) to enable and drive their strategies and performance in an ever more volatile and turbulent environment. Analytics and fact-based decision making can make a powerful contribution to the achievement of government missions, just as they are now making to the accomplishment …
Chronicle of Higher Education: “In a move that drew new rounds of violent protests by students, British lawmakers on Thursday approved a contentious bill to allow universities in England to increase undergraduate tuition to as much as £9,000 a yearor more than $14,000 from the current rate of £3,290. With the bill’s passage in the …
Financial Allocation Study for Texas (FAST) Part 1: Executive Summary – “The Financial Allocation Study for Texas examines school spending and student academic achievement. The executive summary provides a quick look at how spending and academic progress stack up in Texas schools. Part 2: FAST Ratings by District and Campus School District Listings Campus Listings …
Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record Systems of Office-based Physicians: United States, 2009 and Preliminary 2010 State Estimates “There has been an increasing trend in EMR/EHR use among office-based physicians from 2001 through the preliminary 2010 estimates (Figure 1). Combined data from the 2009 surveys (mail survey and in-person survey) showed that 48.3% of physicians reported …
National Vital Statistics Reports Volume 59, Number 2 December 9, 2010 – Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2008 “The age-adjusted death rate decreased from 760.2 deaths per 100,000 population in 2007 to 758.7 deaths per 100,000 population in 2008. From 2007 to 2008 age-adjusted death rates decreased significantly for 6 of the 15 leading causes of …
