Monthly archives: November, 2017

Data – Google and Facebook now have direct influence over 70% of internet traffic

Do you use Google all the time – at work, on your personal and work mobile devices, tablets, and home/work laptops? This article by André Staltz, The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how, was published on October 30, 2017 and the data he references may surprise you, or not. “Before the year 2014, there …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

ADP National Employment Report: Private Sector Employment Increased by 235,000 Jobs in October

Marketwired: “Private sector employment increased by 235,000 jobs from September to October according to the October ADP National Employment Report®. Broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge, the ADP National Employment Report is produced by the ADP Research Institute® in collaboration with Moody’s Analytics. The report, which is derived from ADP’s actual …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

StoryCorps Archive speaks in the voices of 400,000 people

“The StoryCorps Archive comprises one of the largest collections of human voices, featuring more than 400,000 individuals sharing their stories. In our beta launch, only interviews recorded using the StoryCorps App are searchable on this site. All interviews are preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.”

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Report from President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis

Dated November 1, 2017 this report is clearly watermarked on every page with the word DRAFT, but the White House announced today that this is the commission’s final report: “The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis has submitted its final report, recommending how the Federal Government can address the drug addiction …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine