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“The World Information Access 2008 Report presents important trends in the distribution of information and communication technologies around the world. The 2008 WIA Report explores information access by looking at trends in the blogger arrests worldwide, diversity in the ownership of media assets in the 15 largest media markets in the Muslim world, and the …
Proofpoints Outbound Email and Data Loss Prevention in Todays Enterprise, 2008 report – [“the survey was fielded in the US, UK, France, Germany and Australia to explore global concerns.] “Email remains the most important medium for communications both inside and outside the enterprise. But the convenience and ubiquity of email as a business communications tool …
Keeping Up with Class Actions: Reports, Legal Sites and Blogs of Note – “Staying current on the latest cases and news in the area of class actions can be challenging, but Scott Russell’s guide to reliable subscription based publications, free legal sites and blogs that offer timely news, analysis and selected copies of court filings, …
The BlogHer/Compass Partners 2008 Social Media Study – Women and Social Media. “Blogging has become a mainstream method of communication 36.2 Million women participate in the blogosphere weekly 15.1 Million women are publishing at least one post weekly 21.1 Million women are reading and/or posting comments to blogs weekly”
Science 2.0 – Is Open Access Science the Future? Is posting raw results online, for all to see, a great tool or a great risk? By M. Mitchell Waldrop: “Science 2.0 generally refers to new practices of scientists who post raw experimental results, nascent theories, claims of discovery and draft papers on the Web for …
“This project is an ongoing commitment by Universal McCann to measure consumer usage, attitudes and interests in adopting social media platforms and is the largest exploration of its kind. It aims to provide the facts behind the hype…This report (Wave 3) surveyed 17,000 internet users in 29 countries and was completed in March 2008. Power …
News release: “…we’re releasing YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. (You can see this…announcement on the Google blog and on the YouTube blog…) This tool will help anyone who uploads videos to YouTube better understand and …
Workshop 8 Monitoring & Current Awareness: Mining Blogs & RSS for Research, 9:00 AM 12:00 PM, Sunday April 6, 2008 – Sabrina I. Pacifici, Law Librarian, Founder/Editor/Publisher, LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com. This workshop focuses on identifying and leveraging the best of free and low-fee web sites as well as web-related services to support …
“The new AIDS.gov home page provides easier access to site information and offers new features.” Prominently displayed at the top right side of the page are links to: a well designed and organized Blog, Podcasts to which users may listen and for which transcripts are provided, RSS Feeds to the podcasts, resource announcements and alerts. …
“Reporters Without Borders calls on Internet users to come and protest in virtual versions of countries that are Internet enemies…There are 15 countries in this years Reporters Without Borders list of Internet Enemies – Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. There were only …
“Tail Report has launched with the goal to map out how money is made in the blogosphere. Tail Report works by asking users to anonymously submit information about their site’s traffic, rank and monthly revenue. In return, the user receives a custom report detailing what other websites are making and how their revenue compares based …
US Air Force shoots down blogs, airmen frustrated, by Ryan Paul: “The United States Air Force has stirred up controversy with a new Internet filtering policy that aims to prevent Air Force personnel from reading blogs while on the job. The ban has been implemented by the Air Force Network Operations Center (AFNOC), which houses …
