Day archives: January 12th, 2011

"ResearchGATE: revolutionising social networking for scientists"

“Niche social networking is radically transforming collaboration in research as scientists discover that opening up and sharing knowledge reduces redundancy. In a world where success is often built on the back of painstaking trial and error, ResearchGATE promises to make a truly great difference,” by Mandy De Waal. ““We started the network about three-and-a-half years …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record

News release: “Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The two years differed by less than 0.018 degrees Fahrenheit. The difference is smaller than the uncertainty in comparing the temperatures of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

FTC Issues Interim Report to Congress on National Study of Credit Report Accuracy

News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has issued a fourth interim report to Congress describing progress the agency has made on a national study examining the accuracy of credit reports. Congress directed the FTC to conduct a study of credit report accuracy and provide interim reports every two years, starting in 2004 and continuing through …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Federal Reserve Beige Book, January 12, 2011

Full Report – Beige Book, January 12, 2011 – Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District, and link to reports by Districts: “Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that economic activity continued to expand moderately from November through December. Conditions were said to be improving in the Boston, New …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives

Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives – Findings of the Web Archive Survey of Federal Depository Libraries, December 2010, Revised: January 2011, Kathleen Murray “The Classification of the End-of-Term Archive (EOT Archive) project builds on a previous project1 conducted collaboratively by the Library of Congress, the US Government Printing …

Subjects: E-Government, Knowledge Management, Libraries

New GAO Reports: Electricity Grid Modernization, TARP

Electricity Grid Modernization: Progress Being Made on Cybersecurity Guidelines, but Key Challenges Remain to be Addressed, GAO-11-117, January 12, 2011: “The electric industry is increasingly incorporating information technology (IT) systems into its operations as part of nationwide efforts—commonly referred to as smart grid—to improve reliability and efficiency. There is concern that if these efforts are …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Goldman Sachs – Report of the Business Standards Committee

Report of the Business Standards Committee, January 2011: “The scope and intensity of the Committee’s eight month review have been significant, encompassing every major business, region and activity of the firm. We made 39 recommendations for change spanning client service, conflicts and business selection, structured products, transparency and disclosure, committee governance, training and professional development …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

DHS Privacy Office 2010 Data Mining Report to Congress

DHS Privacy Office 2010 Data Mining Report to Congress, December 2010 “This is the DHS Privacy Office’s fifth comprehensive report to Congress on DHS activities that involve data mining, and the third report pursuant to the Data Mining Reporting Act. The Homeland Security Act expressly authorizes the Department to use data mining, among other analytical …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

Commentary – Undersea Cables: The Achilles Heel of our Economies

Follow up to Critical Undersea Internet Cables Damaged Between Europe and Mideast, this related commentary, Undersea Cables: The Achilles Heel of our Economies, by Franz-Stefan Gady “Hardly any people know that our global digital connectivity rests upon a relatively few fiber optic cables lying at the bottom of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. They …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Commerce, Internet