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Documentation Capturing: In the past, many of us have failed to document processes for ourselves or for our organizations. A good example of a professional arena where good documentation has the potential to have a positive impact is within the IT department. When a computer-related system blocks access to staff or fails to timely record …
Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many: “Growth rates are stuttering and a recovery is struggling to take hold. It may even now be showing signs of going backwards again, as countries such as Germany start to power forward. Joblessness has taken hold in America, with the numbers of long-term unemployed reaching …
“The Guardian takes data journalism seriously. They obtain, format, and publish journalistically interesting data sets on their Data Blog, they track transparency initiatives in their searchable index of world government data, and they do original research on data theyve obtained, such as their amazing in-depth analysis of 90,000 leaked Afghanistan war documents. And they do …
the New Yorker: A Chicago Manual for the Internet Age, by Eileen Reynolds – “Print and online versions of this edition of the Chicago Manual are being released simultaneously for the first time in the guide’s history.”
The Economist: “There are plenty of studies which show that dogs act as social catalysts, helping their owners forge intimate, long-term relationships with other people. But does that apply in the workplace? Christopher Honts and his colleagues at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant were surprised to find that there was not much research on …
WSJ: Grim Mood Grows in America Pessimism Rises on Economy and War; Outlook Hurts Both Democrats and GOP “Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy and the war in Afghanistan, and are losing faith that Democrats have better solutions than Republicans, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Underpinning the gloom: Nearly …
Hunting For A Job? Try the Internet: Barbara Fullerton is our guide to effectively engaging in an activity which has assumed increased importance in the face of the grim economy – searching for positions with a specific company, business or educational facility on the Internet. She details how webmasters have designed ways for prospective employees …
An Analysis of Private Browsing Modes in Modern Browsers, by Gaurav Aggarwal and Elie Bursztein, Stanford University; Collin Jackson, CMU; Dan Boneh, Stanford University “We study the security and privacy of private browsing modes recently added to all major browsers. We first propose a clean definition of the goals of private browsing and survey its …
Understanding the Participatory News Consumer: Local News Enthusiasts – presentation by Kristen Purcell, Associate Director, Research/Pew Internet “Roughly four in ten adults say there is currently not enough news coverage of their neighborhood or local community (38%) or that there is not enough coverage of their state (39%). These local news enthusiasts are slightly younger …
Analyzing the Operation of Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services, by Frank Camm, Brian M. Stecher “Empirical evidence of the effects of performance-based public management is scarce. This report describes a framework used to organize available empirical information on one form of performance-based management, a performance-based accountability system (PBAS). Such a system identifies individuals or …
News release: “Two reports released by The Education Trust – Big Gaps, Small Gaps: Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating African-American Students and Big Gaps, Small Gaps: Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating Hispanic Students dig beneath national college-graduation averages and examine disaggregated six-year graduation rates …
Inside Google Books: “We collect metadata from many providers (more than 150 and counting) that include libraries, WorldCat, national union catalogs and commercial providers. At the moment we have close to a billion unique raw records. We then further analyze these records to reduce the level of duplication within each provider, bringing us down to …
