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Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now: “Last week we asked readers for their predictions of life in 100 years time. Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900, many of you wrote in with your vision of the world in 2112. Many of the “strange, …
News release: “This report analyzes the results from a social metadata survey that focused on the motivations for creating a website, moderation policies, staffing and site management, technologies used, and criteria for assessing success. Metadata helps users locate resources that meet their specific needs. But metadata also helps us to understand the data we find …
Susan H. Hildreth, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services: “People depend on libraries now more than ever. Not only do visits and circulation continue to rise, the role of public libraries in providing Internet resources to the public continues to increase as well. Public libraries have also increased their program offerings to …
Programmable Web Services Directory of over 100 government [local, state and federal] APIs released in 2011. Over 2,000 APIs Added in 2011: Social, Telephony, Open Government See also How the Internet of Things Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms – “When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can …
News release: “Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services today announced its rating actions on 16 members of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU or eurozone) following completion of its review. We have lowered the long-term ratings on Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches; lowered the long-term ratings on Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and …
Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict – Addressing Complex Crisis Scenarios in the 21st Century, By Michael Werz, Laura Conley | January 3, 2012: “This report provides the foundation and overview for a series of papers focusing on the particular challenges posed by the cumulative effects of climate change, migration, and conflict in some of our …
Ari LeVaux: “Chinese researchers have found small pieces of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the blood and organs of humans who eat rice. The Nanjing University-based team showed that this genetic material will bind to proteins in human liver cells and influence the uptake of cholesterol from the blood. The type of RNA in question is …
News release: “…we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASAs open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and …
News release: “The Potomac Conservancy released its fifth annual State of the Nations River report, scoring the rivers health at a barely passing D grade, a downgrade from the groups previous D+ in 2007. The report points to reasons for the low grade: growing population and poor land use practices are the primary culprits for …
What the Great Recession Wrought: The State of the U.S. in 3 Years of Polls “The Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor surveys have explored American attitudes on the changing economy each quarter since April 2009…One theme consistently winding through the polls is the emergence of what could be called a “reluctant self-reliance,” as Americans look increasingly …
News release: “Unemployment figures show the jobless rate for recent college graduates with Bachelors Degrees has been running at an unacceptable 8.9 percent. But, a new study, Hard Times, College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings: Not All College Degrees Are Created Equal, from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce finds that unemployment among job …
Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – December 2011: Sabrina I. Pacifici’s comprehensive, current awareness guide focuses on leveraging a wide but selected range of reliable, focused, predominantly free websites and resources to effectively track, monitor, analyze, background and review current and historical data, news, reports, and profiles on companies, markets, …
