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The rise of e-reading, by Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden and Joanna Brenner “One-fifth of American adults (21%) report that they have read an e-book in the past year, and this number increased following a gift-giving season that saw a spike in the ownership of both tablet computers and e-book reading devices …
“Consumer Federation of America (CFA), Kids In Danger (KID) and Consumers Union (CU) mark the one year anniversary of the posting of consumer reports on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissions (CPSC) consumer database, SaferProducts.gov, that allows people to share and access safety information about the products they own and consider buying. To mark the …
When Labels Dont Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity – by Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Jessica Hamar Martínez and Gabriel Velasco, April 4, 2012 “Nearly four decades after the United States government mandated the use of the terms Hispanic or Latino to categorize Americans who trace their roots to Spanish-speaking countries, a new …
Measurement, Governance and Long-term Investing, World Economic Forum USA Inc., March 2012 “This report focuses on the first of those obstacles measurement and governance. It discusses in depth issues related to the estimated US$ 2.4 trillion invested in illiquid assets, which can be subject to substantial distortions and misallocations resulting from inadequate measurement. Traditional …
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies – Implementing PortfolioStat, March 30, 2012 – Steven VanRoekel, Federal Chief Information Officer “PortfolioStat will be a new tool that agencies use to assess the current maturity of their IT portfolio management process, make decisions on eliminating duplication, augment current CIOled capital planning and investment control …
Managing a crucial link in ocean food webs – Summary of a report from the Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force, March 2012 “Forage fish are small to medium-sized species that include anchovies, herring, menhaden, and sardines. Direct catch of forage fish makes up more than one-third of the worlds marine fish catch and has contributed …
Restoring Contemplation: How Disconnecting Bolsters the Knowledge Economy, by Jessie L. Mannisto “While constant access to information enabled by digital devices has done much to improve our lives, it also exacts costs with respect to our attention and productivity that are especially harmful in a knowledge based economy. Increased public awareness of the impact of …
How to Use iOS 5 Devices in Litigation, by Brian Malcom You have an iPad. You’re an attorney and, worse yet, a litigator. Now what? The iPad is nothing new. That sentence is shocking to read, but it is true. The iPad first hit stores in April 2010. The iPad 2 followed a year later, …
“There has been a great deal of talk of late about women and politics: What we want, how well vote, what is good for us. Politicians and pundits love to stir up arguments around the most divisive social and moral issues, but we know what is truly most important to us as women: We want …
“The Mind is a Metaphor, is an evolving work of reference, an ever more interactive, more solidly constructed collection of mental metaphorics. This collection of eighteenth-century metaphors of mind serves as the basis for a scholarly study of the metaphors and root-images appealed to by the novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, philosophers, belle-lettrists, preachers, and pamphleteers …
Big Philanthropy’s Role in Higher Education, by Stanley N. Katz “According to a recent Chronicle study, America’s top 50 donors gave a total of $10.4-billion in 2011, rebounding from the $3.3-billion of the previous year, with its recession worries. Those numbers reflect the continued growth in the number of private philanthropic foundations in this country …
Via LLRX.com – Fiction is harder than fact, but the Web helps – Nicholas Pengelley’s wide ranging global career spans law librarian, lawyer, law professor and analyst for a major international NGO. Now as the author of a new political thriller he explains why writing fiction is much harder to write than fact, based on …
