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News release: “The social media market is primed for a new player that allows users to connect with friends, according to the 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, produced in partnership with customer experience analytics firm ForeSee Results. Despite a small improvement this year, Facebook (+3% to 66) is the lowest-scoring site, not …
Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips – Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu, Daniel M. Wegner. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1207745, Published Online 14 July 2011. See also Google’s Effects on Memory, PBS NewsHour via YouTube. “The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as …
College students and technology by Aaron Smith, Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr – July 19, 2011 When it comes to general internet access, young adults of all stripes are much more likely than the general population to go online. Fully 92% of 18-24 year olds who do not attend college are internet users, comparable to the …
Poor Economics: rethinking poverty and the ways to end it: “In many countries, a significant percentage of the population survives on just a few dollars a day. Here’s a look at the distribution of consumption in several developing nations.”
Commentary: “Britain is now enmeshed in a gigantic scandal around privacy invasions by the press and police. It began with revelations about reporters for Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid newspaper News of the World hacking into the voicemail of a murdered young girl, and has expanded as other privacy invasions have come to light.” WSJ.com: Scandal …
Via FCW – Federal CIO Vivek Kundra: “Build end-to-end digital systems to reduce errors and protect the integrity of the data across the federal enterprise. Build once, use often. Tap into the “golden sources” of data. Dont rely on derivative databases or data derived from other data sources. Go directly to the transactional systems that …
“The .gov reform effort is part of President Obama’s Campaign to Cut Waste, identifying unnecessary websites that can be consolidated into other websites to reduce costs and improve the quality of service to the American public. The President signed Executive Order 13571, “Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service,” April 27, 2011, which requires federal …
Women in political dynasties: “Ms Yinglucks victory in Thailands general election on July 3rd is the latest example of an intriguing and, it seems, growing trend: for the sisters, daughters and widows of former leaders to take over the family political business on the death, retirement orin Mr Thaksins caseexile of the founder. There are …
Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips. Betsy Sparrow1, Jenny Liu, Daniel M. Wegner. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1207745 “The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as lifting a finger. No longer do we have to make costly efforts to find the things …
Children’s Television Act: FCC Could Improve Efforts to Oversee Enforcement and Provide Public Information, GAO-11-659, July 14, 2011 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands – Status of Transition to Federal Immigration Law, GAO-11-805T, July 14, 2011 Defense Logistics: Oversight and a Coordinated Strategy Needed to Implement the Army Workload and Performance System, GAO-11-566R, July 14, …
Achieving Effective Supervision: An Industry Perspective, “prepared by the Effective Supervision Advisory Group under Mrs Kerstin af Jochnick, Managing Director of the Swedish Bankers Association – addresses the issue of how to make supervision more effective both nationally and globally in the light of the financial crisis. It argues that such supervision has a central …
The report Macroprudential Oversight: An Industry Perspective stresses that the Institute of International Finance strongly supports the development of macroprudential oversight and tools but encourages regulators to balance the need for rapid progress with a degree of caution and a willingness to learn and adapt in the light of experience. The report mainly takes the …
