Day archives: September 28th, 2013

Latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report – Twelfth Session of Working Group I – Approved Summary for Policymakers. IPCC WGI AR5 SPM-2 27. September 2013 Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment -Report Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Summary for Policymakers – A. Introduction “The Working Group I contribution to the …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Government Documents

NYT Reports – NSA maps some Americans’ social connections

Via cnet – “Facebook, Google, and other tech firms apparently aren’t the only ones who’ve been fascinated by the potential of “social graphs” — maps of people’s social connections. The NSA has reportedly been tapping its giant repositories of phone and e-mail data to create complex diagrams of some Americans’ interactions, including lists of associates …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

Commentary – What Does the Zapruder Film Really Tell Us?

What Does the Zapruder Film Really Tell Us? Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris deconstructs the most famous 26 seconds in film history. Ron Rosenbaum – Smithsonian magazine, October 2013, “It’s been called the most important 26 seconds of film in history: The 486 frames of 8-millimeter Bell + Howell home movie footage shot in the midday sun of Dallas on November …

Subjects: Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management