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“Citizens can now track fundraising for over 1,500 congressional candidates with free widgets for blogs, social networking pages, and personal web sites. MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan watchdog group, released today customizable widgets portable chunks of code that allow content to be displayed on any web page that make political fundraising more transparent. Bloggers and …
“The California Broadband Task Force today released its final findings and recommendations in a report to the Governor and Legislature. The report, The State of Connectivity: Building Innovation Through Broadband, represents the culmination of more than a year of work by the Task Force, including maps of current broadband availability and speed, recommendations to achieve …
“The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States. As a collaboration between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based upon data from Thomson Financial, it is the only industry-endorsed research of its kind. The MoneyTree Report is the definitive source of information on emerging companies that …
Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, January 9, 2008. “The future of bibliographic control will be collaborative, decentralized, international in scope, and Web-based. Its realization will occur in cooperation with the private sector, and with the active collaboration of library users. Data will be gathered from multiple …
PC World: “Get to your favorite folders in a snap. Stream TV stations from around the globe. Add new power to Internet Explorer. All this and more, and all of it for free.” by Scott Dunn. All Downloads referenced in this article
Grants and Investments: “As of January 2008, Google.org has committed $75.4 million in grants and investments to further our five initiatives.” WSJ: “Valued at about $2 billion, the assets currently set aside for the company’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, make it larger than any in-house corporate foundation in the U.S., according to the Foundation Center, a …
“The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School is pleased to present the results [full report/purchase only] of the seventh year of our project, Surveying the Digital Future [highlights]. The seven years of longitudinal research comprise an absolutely unique data base that completely captures broadband at home, the wireless Internet, on-line media, …
Press release: “A new report, commissioned by the UKL JISC [Joint Information Systems Committee] and the British Library, counters the common assumption that the Google Generation young people born or brought up in the Internet age is the most adept at using the web. The report by the CIBER research team at University …
Press release: “A new study showing that the heavily advertised cholesterol drug Vytorin doesnt work any better than a newly available generic drug in slowing artery-clogging calls into question who should be taking the most potent cholesterol drugs. This study gives us another important piece of the puzzle in the treatment of high cholesterol and …
Ceres press release: “While encouraging progress is being made, the banking sector still has a long way to go in confronting the business challenges posed by global climate change, according to a first-ever report issued today by the Ceres investor coalition that analyzes climate change governance practices of 40 of the worlds largest banks…The report …
“This website is a companion to The Buying of the President 2008. Like the book, this site explores the roles that money and special interests play in presidential politics. But unlike the book, which will provide a behind-the-scenes examination of how big money influences the presidential election process, this site is a work in progress …
Scientific American: Wikis, blogs and other collaborative web technologies could usher in a new era of science. Or not. By M. Mitchell Waldrop: “The explosively growing World Wide Web has rapidly transformed retailing, publishing, personal communication and much more. Innovations such as e-commerce, blogging, downloading and open-source software have forced old-line institutions to adopt whole …
