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Via WSJ: “This year, the government will spend $80 billion on IT, at agencies as varied as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health and Human Services, and on non-classified sections of the US Department of Defense [see Federal Cloud Computing Strategy Published]. As slices of government spending go, this is not huge, …
News release: “After two consecutive years of declining pay, 2010 saw a return to increased pay for many CEOs. Equilar’s recent research showed a 28.2 percent increase in median pay for chief executives in the S&P 500. Small- and mid-cap CEOs also saw their pay rebound by over 20 percent from 2009 to 2010. In …
Women’s Health Care Chartbook – Key Findings from the Kaiser Women’s Health Study, May 2011: “While most women in the U.S. enjoy good health, one third report that they live with a chronic health problem and one in four report depression or anxiety. As women age, they are more likely to experience chronic health problems …
Trends over 5 Decades in U.S. Occupation-Related Physical Activity and Their Associations with Obesity Church TS, Thomas DM, Tudor-Locke C, Katzmarzyk PT, Earnest CP, et al. (2011) PLoS ONE 6(5): e19657. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019657: “Analysis of energy expenditure for occupations in U.S. private industry since 1960 using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Mean body …
Journalist’s Resource – Research strategy guide: “Knowing how to conduct research efficiently and effectively is a critical skill for journalists especially in the information age. It is, like other facets of the profession such as interviewing, a matter of practice and establishing good habits. And once you find a successful routine for information-gathering, it …
Official Google Blog: “To help solve these problems, we began testing a mortgage comparison tool in 2009 and have added other financial products such as credit cards, CDs, checking, and savings accounts. Today, were rolling these tools into one place: Google Advisor, a site designed to help you quickly find relevant financial products from many …
SearchEngineLand: “Googles ambitious effort to digitize the worlds newspaper archives and make them available online has come to an end. The project launched in 2008, and it currently has digitized material from what looks like about 2,000 newspapers including the Milwaukee Sentinel, whose July 21, 1969 front page is shown at right.”
News release: “The latest Broadband Progress Report to Congress from the Federal Communications Commission reveals that approximately 26 million Americans, mostly in rural communities located in every region of the country, are denied access to the jobs and economic opportunity made possible by broadband. While the infrastructure of high-speed Internet is unavailable to those Americans, …
Via LLRX: “Link Rot” and Legal Resources on the Web: A 2011 Analysis by the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group – Sarah Rhodes describes and documents the work of the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group’s fourth annual investigation of link rot among the original URLs for online law and policy-related materials archived though the group’s efforts. Link …
Roadmap for the Digital City – Achieving New York City’s Digital Future – The City of New York, May 2011 “New York City is one of the worlds leading digital metropolises. As Part I: State of the Digital City illustrates, New York City government engages over 25 million people a year through more than 200 …
Using Online Tools to Engage and be Engaged by The Public: While all federal agencies have developed open government plans, many managers find themselves unfamiliar with what tactics and tools work best, under different scenarios. Matt Leighninger, IBM Deliberative Democracy Consortium “Mr. Leighningers report begins to pull back the veil on how the …
“Because we believe that Internet censorship is not only against the basic purpose of the Internet, which is to let people communicate what the want to with the people they want to communicate with, but also fundamentally against the universal right to freedom of opinion and expression [which] includes freedom to hold opinions without interference …
