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Politics goes mobile, by Aaron Smith, Lee Rainie, Dec 23, 2010: “More than a quarter of American adults 26% used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign. In a post-election nationwide survey of adults, the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project found that 82% …
News release: “The United States is spending considerably less on networking and information technology research than is suggested by official tallies and would benefit from both a larger investment and improved long-term strategic planning in this crucial field of research, according to an independent report released today by the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science …
News release and related charts: “For the first time, Harvard topped over 30,000 applicants for the Fall 2010 admission season. Despite a down economy, students are swallowing the bitterly high tuition fees and applying at record highs this year, leading schools to accept fewer applicants. Heres a closer look at why admittance rates are down …
LLRX.com – Open Source Tools for Tutorials: Nicole C. Engard continues her series on best practices for libraries to leverage open source tools with a guide on publishing tutorials for using library resources. Rather than creating a printed pathfinder, she suggests creating a video tutorial instead, as the learning experience is often more engaging and …
News release: “Global biodiversity surveys over the past few years have provided increasing evidence that our planet is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction. Plants, animals, and microorganisms are disappearing thousands of times more rapidly than they have for more than 65 million years, and for the first time in Earth’s history, human …
News release: “Drawing on the latest national data, a new report concludes that marriage is in trouble among so-called “Middle Americans,” defined as the 58 percent of adults who have a high school diploma and possibly some post-secondary education, but no four-year college degree. The 2010 edition of the State of Our Unions report was …
News release: “If you think similarities in the Internet and television are growing, parents may be inclined to agree with you. Parents are rapidly coming to view TV and the Web in similar ways, applying supervisory approaches to both mediums, according to a new survey by the Center for the Digital Future, at the Annenberg …
Inside Google Books: “The Ngram Viewer lets you graph and compare phrases from these datasets over time, showing how their usage has waxed and waned over the years. One of the advantages of having data online is that it lowers the barrier to serendipity: you can stumble across something in these 500 billion words and …
Generations 2010, Kathryn Zickuhr, Web Coordinator, 12/16/2010 “There are still notable differences by generation in online activities, but the dominance of the Millennial generation that we documented in our first Generations report in 2009 has slipped in many activities. Milliennials, those ages 18-33, remain more likely to access the internet wirelessly with a laptop or …
News release: “The more than 2.4 million students who receive an undergraduate degree in the United States each year have college experiences that are individual and diverse, but the students are nearly unanimous in their opinion of the value of their degree. Polling conducted by The Winston Group on behalf of the American Council on …
25 Point Implementation Plan To Reform Federal Information Technology Management, Vivek Kundra U.S. Chief Information Officer, December 9, 2010 “Information technology should enable government to better serve the American people. But despite spending more than $600 billion on information technology over the past decade, the Federal Government has achieved little of the productivity improvements that …
News release: “An open database of endangered languages has been launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will give people access to the worlds disappearing spoken traditions. The website has been developed by researchers at the World Oral Literature Project, based at the University of Cambridge, and will be …
