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Center for American Progress: “Two years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the city faces challenges as it tries to rebuild: not just those posed by mountains of rubble and the prospect of future hurricanes, but also a rebuilding effort hampered by inaction, mismanagement, and corruption.” Related postings on Katrina Broken Promises, a comprehensive report …
Follow up to Report to June 13, 2007 posting, Report to the President on the Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy, this press release and related documents today from Virginia Tech: “On May 9, 2007, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger directed three internal reviews in the wake of the April 16 tragedy on the …
Two Decades of American News Preferences – Part 2: News Interest across Decades and “News Eras” by Michael J. Robinson, special to the Pew Research Center, August 22, 2007 Download part 1 of the commentary Download part 2 of the commentary Trends Across Decades “Public interest in news has changed slightly over the last two …
“Four data sets from the Pew Internet Project’s health research were the basis for a poster presented at the American Psychological Association convention on Sunday [August 19, 2007]. Phyllis Schumacher and Janet Morahan-Martin took the 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004 health surveys and ran the numbers to prove four hypotheses: Women are more likely than …
Internet Health Report, Keynote Systems, “The Mobile and Internet Performance Authority”: metrics include Latency, Latency, Network Availability, Packet Loss.
“At Sony, we support the recycling of our products with the same respect we have when creating them. Teaming up with Waste Management, weve built a recycling program that makes it easy to dispose of electronics in an environmentally-safe way. Bring your unwanted Sony product to any participating Waste Management eCycling drop-off center and recycle …
“The National Snow and Ice Data Center has launched this year’s news and commentary Web site [Arctic Sea Ice News] as we follow the Arctic sea ice melt season. From August 10, 2007, through the end of the summer melt season, we will post updates as events warrant.” “Arctic sea ice has now surpassed all …
“Carbonfund.org is leading the fight against climate change, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to eliminate their climate impact and hastening the transformation to a clean energy and technology future. Carbonfund.org achieves its goals through: Climate change education; Carbon reductions and offsets; Outreach to the public….Carbonfund.org supports three types of …
AP: “An engineering marvel at the time but instantly recognizable today, the compact disc turns 25 years old on Friday. But in an age of iPods and MP3 players, the CD’s future is increasingly in doubt. Those first CDs contained the Alpine symphony by Strauss and would sound equally sharp if played today, according to …
From Wired: “Wikipedia Scanner — the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith — offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.” Related news: …
Freedom and Information: Assessing Publicly Available Data Regarding U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Security, August 8, 2007: “This report concerns the feasibility of obtaining information relevant to planning terrorist attacks from publicly available sources. To the extent that such information is available, it is particularly valuable to terrorist planners in that it can generally be obtained at …
The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites, Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfield, Cliff Lampe – Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University – Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4), article 1. “This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social …
