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“The Problem – The voices we hear from in the world come from a tiny fraction of societymostly western, white, privileged, and overwhelmingly male. Men are: 80-90% of contributers to key opinion forums; 84% of T.V. pundits on Sunday morning talk shows; 85% of Hollywood producers; 83% of Congress. In short, public debate all but …
Use of the internet in higher-income households, Jim Jansen, Senior Fellow, 11/24/2010 “Those in higher-income households are different from other Americans in their tech ownership and use. 95% of those in households earning over $75,000 use the internet and cell phones. Those in higher-income households are more likely to use the internet on any given …
Official Google New Blog: “News publishers and readers both benefit when journalists get proper credit for their work. That can be difficult, with news spreading so quickly and many websites syndicating articles to others. Thats why were experimenting with two new metatags for Google News: syndication-source and original-source. Each of these metatags addresses a different …
Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere, Jillian C. York, The OpenNet Initiative (ONI), November 2010 “Online conversations today exist primarily in the realm of social media and blogging platforms, most of which are owned by private companies. Such privately owned platforms now occupy a significant role in the public sphere, as places in which ideas …
World Bank: “Accelerating innovation in emerging technologies is essential to help reduce the current and long-term impacts of climate change. However developing countries, which are most immediately threatened by these impacts, lag in their capacity to transfer, develop and deploy innovative climate technologies. Climate Innovation Centers: A New Way to Faster Climate Technologies in the …
The Fall/Winter 2010 Edition of The Business of Government “has as its background a period rife with significant challenges that go to the core of effective public management. Faced with seemingly intractable issues such as an ever growing federal deficit, economic uncertainty, unemployment, and aging infrastructure, it appears that the old adage doing more with …
Trouble in Toyland: The 25th Annual Survey of Toy Safety, November 2010 – U.S. PIRG “In the last 25 years, our research and reporting have led to at least 130 recalls. Yet every year, we find new dangers on store shelves. Last year alone, more than 250,000 kids went to the ER with toy-related injuries, …
Temporal Trends in Rates of Patient Harm Resulting from Medical Care, N Engl J Med 2010;363:2124-34. “We conducted a retrospective study of a stratified random sample of 10 hospitals in North Carolina. A total of 100 admissions per quarter from January 2002 through December 2007 were reviewed in random order by teams of nurse reviewers …
Long Live the Web – “The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperityand even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending.” By Tim Berners-Lee “The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990. It consisted of one Web site and …
Why Tablet Computing Hasn’t Been Big Business: “Shock, horror: Apple didn’t invent the tablet computer with the iPad. Tablets have been around since the last century, and poor old Microsoft has been hacking away at software to run on tablets for the same amount of time. In fact, Microsoft coined the term “tablet.” There have …
“The European Library is a free service that offers access to the resources of the 48 national libraries of Europe in 35 languages. Resources can be both digital (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.) and bibliographical. Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 48 collaborating national libraries of Europe.The European Library represents Europe in …
The Decline of Marriage And Rise of New Families, by Pew Social Trends Staff The transformative trends of the past 50 years that have led to a sharp decline in marriage and a rise of new family forms have been shaped by attitudes and behaviors that differ by class, age and race, according to a …
