Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
News release: “It’s been almost a year since Mozilla, Opera, Xiph.Org, Matroska, Google and over 40 other partners launched the WebM Project with the goal of developing a world-class, open source media format for the web. The open development model has led to rapid quality improvements in WebM, and the format is now supported in …
Mishra, Himanshu, Mishra, Arul and Shiv, Baba, In Praise of Vagueness: Malleability of Vague Information as a Performance-Booster (October 14, 2010). Psychological Science, Forthcoming. “Is the eternal quest for precise information always worthwhile? This research suggests that at times vagueness has its merits. Previous research has demonstrated that people choose precise (over vague) information because …
Another invaluable service for researchers that facilitates free access to court opinions – from the innovative experts at Justia – who are now “providing FREE Daily & Weekly Opinion Summaries for all Federal Courts, and selected State Supreme Courts. See an example daily email for the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals or a weekly …
“Gallup’s global wellbeing surveys in 2010 reveal that a median of 21% across 124 countries were “thriving” last year, based on how people rated their lives at the current time and their expectations for the next five years. This is unchanged from a median of 21% in 2009. The percentage rating their lives well enough …
“AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report is a public service of the United States of America’s largest motoring and leisure travel membership organization and is updated daily by Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) with average national, state and local prices for gasoline, diesel and E-85. Every day up to 100,000 stations are surveyed in cooperation with …
5 Myths About the ‘Information Age’, by Robert Darnton, professor and university librarian at Harvard University. This essay is based on a talk he gave last month at the Council of Independent Colleges’ Symposium on the Future of the Humanities, in Washington – snipped: “Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led …
“Federal agencies can improve the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of large-scale IT systems by learning from each other, and by leveraging best practices in the private and public sectors. The CIO Council created and will continue to evolve this Best Practices information-sharing platform to realize those benefits. Agencies will be aggregating case studies, lessons learned, and …
Social Media Curation Tool Storyful Helps Separate News From Noise: “Storyful is a social media news tool created by journalists that finds the most relevant, real and interesting video, tweets and posts coming from people in the middle of events around the world. A team of journalists work with Storyful’s “behind-the-scenes” software to find, verify …
“A new Freedom House report found that while the majority of circumvention tools used to evade government censorship online perform similarly well, the country in which they are used and the nature of the censorship dictate their effectiveness. No one tool provides a silver bullet for security as governments become more sophisticated in filtering content …
Findings from the 2011 Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) International Graduate Admissions Survey Phase I: Applications – April 2011: “This analysis responds to member institutions concerns about continuing changes in the enrollment of students from abroad seeking masters and doctoral degrees from U.S. colleges and universities. International students currently comprise about 15.5% of all students …
Kerith Page McFadden, librarian at CNN for the past 12 years wrote today: “Librarians, information specialists, knowledge managers or whatever title a librarian might have — their skills are in high demand. And, though you might not know it, they are everywhere…At a time where anyone can Google just about anything, librarians don’t just find …
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, April 11, 2011: “Users increasingly rely on individual pages listed by search engines instead of finding better ways to tackle problems. Although some analysts questioned the finding of search dominance, it’s a user behavior that gets stronger every year. Today, many users are so reliant on search that it’s undermining their problem-solving …
