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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): “Few realize it, but nearly every foreign fish product sold in the United States enters the U.S. market in violation of federal law. from the cod and haddock that go into the fish sticks enjoyed by children to the sea bass served at fine restaurants, if it was imported, it probably entered this country …
“In honor of its Centennial this year, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) — in partnership with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress — is developing a list of Books that Shaped Work in America. The idea for this list derived from the Books that Shaped America exhibition sponsored by the Library of …
McCahery, Joseph A. and Vermeulen, Erik P. M., The ‘Ignored’ Third Dimension of Corporate Governance (January 5, 2014). Lex Research Topics in Corporate Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2014-1. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2374810 “The separation of ownership and control has always been central in corporate governance debates. A large body of literature has sought …
Gerald C. (Jerry) Kane: The most effective social businesses may start to look more like organizations that long predate modern corporations — so-called “loosely coupled” organizations such as military, education and religious institutions. “Social media represents an enormous opportunity for most organizations, particularly knowledge-intensive ones. While marketing applications of social media are getting the most attention …
GCN – John Breeden II: “The Department of Defense manages a huge library of photographs and other media that has been declassified. But accessing that information, some of which dates back to World War II, isn’t easy to do. That will change within the next five years as T3Media uses its enterprise-scale video management platform to bring …
Herman, Ivan. “Introduction to Linked Open Data (LOD)” International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2013. Available at: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2013/paper/view/195/112. These slides are also available on the Web: http://www.w3.org/2013/Talks/0902-Lisbon-IH/ “Use the Web of Data as a Content Management System. Use the community at large as content editors.”
Social Media for Selection? Validity and Adverse Impact Potential of a Facebook-Based Assessment. Chad H. Van Iddekinge, Florida State University; Stephen E. Lanivich, Old Dominion University; Philip L. Roth, Clemson University; Elliott Junco, Accenture. Journal of Management published online 16 December 2013, DOI: 10.1177/0149206313515524. “Recent reports suggest that an increasing number of organizations are using information from social media platforms such as Facebook.com to screen job applicants. Unfortunately, …
“Georgetown University Law Center and Peer Monitor issued their 2014 Report on the State of the Legal Market. The report highlights recent trends in the legal market, as well as factors that will likely impact the market in 2014 and beyond. The report warns that unless law firms re-examine their traditional business models and embrace change in …
Via Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow – Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives “Back in 2012, when Canada’s Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first. But only an insignificant fraction of the archives got …
Liz Alderman: “Week after week, newspapers issue a stream of hopeful headlines: Microsoft, PayPal, Fujitsu and scores of other companies are expanding their investments in Ireland, creating thousands of jobs as unemployment hovers near record highs. There is just one hitch: Not enough people are qualified to fill all the jobs. In some cases, the companies have …
A Lexicon of the Internet, Updated by Its Users By JENNA WORTHAM- “Urban Dictionary has become a real-time archive for new and slang terms, particularly those that have risen because of social media and the Web.”
Back in the day, I was immeasurably fortunate to cross and establish pre-Web paths with two experts in the art, science, knowledge and musicality of what the Internet could become – Peter Scott and Darlene Fichter. Fast forward a couple of decades to the new e-Web, I read on FB, with much sorrow, that Peter …
