Category «Knowledge Management»

The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions, International Journal of Communication 5 (2011), Feature 13751405 19328036/2011FEA1375 [via gigaom] “This article details the networked production and dissemination of news on Twitter during snapshots of the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions as seen through information flowssets of near-duplicate tweetsacross activists, bloggers, …

Subjects: Blogs, Freedom of Information, Knowledge Management

State of the Federal Web Report

State of the Federal Web Report, December 16, 2011. Produced by the .gov Reform Task Force “This report presents a summary of data and findings about the state of Federal websites, collected as part of the .gov Reform Initiative. The report is intended to highlightfor the first timethe size and scope of websites in the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity

Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity, December 15, 2011. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. “For many years, experiments using chimpanzees have been instrumental in advancing scientific knowledge and have led to new medicines to prevent life-threatening and debilitating diseases. However, recent advances in alternate research tools have rendered chimpanzees largely …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

GMI Pay Survey Reveals Real CEO Compensation at Big Firms Rose 36% in 2010

“GMIs CEO Pay Survey 2011, one of the largest surveys of CEO compensation in North America, is based on analysis of the Russell 3000 and S&P 500 companies. Only 2,132 CEOs were in the job for the whole of the last two fiscal years, so it is on this smaller sample that changes in CEO …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Memories for the Future – Japan: Before and After the Earthquake and Tsunami

Follow up to previous postings on the 2010 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, see Japan: Before and After the Earthquake and Tsunami Pre- and post-disaster imagery in Google Street View “Google is now also providing thousands of miles of Street View imagery in the affected areas that were collected before and after the disaster. Seeing the …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Pew: Barely Half of U.S. Adults Are Married A Record Low

Pew Research Center: Barely Half of U.S. Adults Are Married A Record Low, New Marriages Down 5% from 2009 to 2010, by DVera Cohn, Jeffrey Passel and Wendy Wang “In 1960, 72% of all adults ages 18 and older were married; today just 51% are. If current trends continue, the share of adults who …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

TIME's Person of the Year – The Protestor

The Protester, by Kurt Andersen: “It’s remarkable how much the protest vanguards share. Everywhere they are disproportionately young, middle class and educated. Almost all the protests this year began as independent affairs, without much encouragement from or endorsement by existing political parties or opposition bigwigs. All over the world, the protesters of 2011 share a …

Subjects: Blogs, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Internet, Knowledge Management

National Center for Education Statistics – Academic Libraries: 2010 First Look

“The Academic Libraries: 2010 First Look summarizes services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in 2- and 4-year, degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.” “This report presents tabulations for the 2010 Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) conducted by the U.S. Department of Educations National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Cambridge Digital Library – Newton Papers

“Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). We present here an initial selection of Newton’s manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s. Over the next few months we will be adding further works until the majority of our Newton Papers are available …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

United Health Foundations Americas Health Rankings®

News release: “United Health Foundations 2011 Americas Heath Rankings® finds that troubling increases in obesity, diabetes and children in poverty are offsetting improvements in smoking cessation, preventable hospitalizations and cardiovascular deaths. The report finds that the countrys overall health did not improve between 2010 and 2011 a drop from the 0.5 percent average annual …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

NYT Timeline Predicting the Future of Computing

Predicting the Future of Computing: “Since no supercomputer can yet predict the future, we need your help. Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions that you can push forward or backward in time (but not, of course, into …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Pew – Twitter and the Campaign

Twitter and the Campaign – How the Discussion on Twitter Varies from Blogs and News Coverage And Ron Pauls Twitter Triumph, December 8, 2011 “A detailed examination of more than 20 million Tweets about the race for president finds that the political discussion on Twitter is measurably different than the one found in the blogosphere …

Subjects: Blogs, Knowledge Management

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