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Oxford University Press Blog: New words, new phrases, old words – new senses – with some of which you will be familiar in light of the ongoing financial crisis, riding public transport, using social media, and having kids.
Via LLRX.com – Open Source Tools for the Day-to-Day: Nicole C. Engard reviews several open source tools she recommends not only for their usability and reliability, but also for the cost to value ratio when compared to mainstream applications outside our ever narrowing budget requirements.
“Core Commitments, a signature initiative of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), aims to reclaim and revitalize the academys role in fostering students development of personal and social responsibility. The initiative is designed to help campuses create learning environments in which all students reach for excellence in the use of their talents, take …
“The Guardian today has launched a new website in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help focus the world’s attention on global development. The site will provide a new space for discussion and interaction on the biggest challenges affecting the lives of billions of people across the developing world, including poverty, hunger, …
News release: “Uranium supplies will not limit the expansion of nuclear power in the US or around the world for the foreseeable future, according to a major new interdisciplinary study produced under the auspices of the MIT Energy Initiative. The study challenges conventional assumptions about nuclear energy. It suggests that nuclear power using todays reactor …
Children of Immigrants: 2008 State Trends Update, Karina Fortuny, Urban Institute. “Growth in immigration during the 1990s and afterward resulted in a larger number of children in immigrant families. Between 1990 and 2008, the share of U.S. children with immigrant parents increased from 13 percent to 23 percent.2 In 2008, 16.5 million children age 0 …
News release: “The Judicial Conference of the United States today approved a pilot project to evaluate the effect of cameras in federal district courtrooms and the public release of digital video recordings of some civil proceedings. The pilot, which will be national in scope, will last up to three years. It will evaluate the effect …
Americans Spending More Time Following the News – Ideological News Sources: Who Watches and Why, September 12, 2010 “There are many more ways to get the news these days, and as a consequence Americans are spending more time with the news than over much of the past decade. Digital platforms are playing a larger role …
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, September 13, 2010, Children’s Websites: Usability Issues in Designing for Kids: “New research with users aged 312 shows that older kids have gained substantial Web proficiency since our last studies, while younger kids still face many problems. Designing for children requires distinct usability approaches, including targeting content narrowly for different ages of …
The Power of Mobile, by Susannah Fox, September 13, 2010 – Prepared for Mayo Transform 2010: Thinking Differently About Health Care. “Mobile was the final front in the access revolution. It has erased the digital divide. A mobile device is the internet for many people…Access isnt the point anymore. Its what people are doing with …
Suzanne Labarre, senior editor at Co.Design. – “The infographic you see here has managed to turn one of the ugliest facets of global cities into something approaching art. Behold urban sprawl, in the hands of Jessica Young and Luke Bulman. Young and Bulman make up the Brooklyn graphic design studio Thumb, and their beautiful, though …
The Online Oral Academic Learning Community – Lorette S.J. Weldon discusses innovative methods to use social networking and oral tradition to support the goals of sharing professional experiences and collaborating on best practices for past, current, and ongoing research.
