Category «Knowledge Management»

CRS: Social Networking and Constituent Communications: Member Use of Twitter During a Two-Month Period in the 111th Congress

Social Networking and Constituent Communications: Member Use of Twitter During a Two-Month Period in the 111th Congress, February 03, 2010 “Beginning with the widespread use of e-mail by Congress in the mid-1990’s, the development of new electronic technologies has altered the traditional patterns of communication between Members of Congress and constituents. Many Members now use …

Subjects: Blogs, Congress, E-Mail, Internet, Knowledge Management

New on LLRX.com: Cloud Computing for Lawyers

LLRX.com: Cloud Computing for Lawyers – This is Nicole L. Black’s primer for the legal profession on an emerging technology which is defined as a “type of computing that is comparable to grid computing, [and] relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. The goal of cloud …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management

Magazines and Their Web Sites A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report

Magazines and Their Web Sites, A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report by Victor Navasky with Evan Lerner, March 2010 “Virtually every significant magazine in the United Statesand increasingly abroadeither already has, or is in the process of establishing, a Web site. These interactive Internet offspring speak to a new generation of magazine readers, and …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Factsheet on European Court of Human Rights and Gender Equality

Factsheet on European Court of Human Rights and Gender Equality “Over the years, the Council of Europe’s activities to promote the cause of women have taken a number of forms, such as legal measures, mobilising public opinion and training and research. One of the main threads running through all these activities is the principle that …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Knowledge Management

Investigative Report on Archiving Britain's web

An investigation by Katie Scott: “A proposal that could give select institutions the power to take snapshots of websites without their owners’ permission is being ruminated by our Government. Civil servants at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport are now processing opinions on whether we should be archiving websites for future generations. While it …

Subjects: Blogs, Copyright, E-Government, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Essay: Books in the Age of the iPad

Craig Mod: “With the iPad we finally have a platform for consuming rich-content in digital form. What does that mean? To understand just why the iPad is so exciting we need to think about how we got here. I want to look at where printed books stand in respect to digital publishing, why we historically …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Esquire Interview – Roger Ebert: The Essential Man

Roger Ebert – The Essential Man: “It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television’s most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.”

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Survey of Academic Librarians: Use of Associations, Blogs, Listservs, Conferences, & Publications about Libraries

Survey of Academic Librarians: Use of Associations, Blogs, Listservs, Conferences, & Publications about Libraries “The study imparts highly specific data about academic librarian use of library oriented blogs, listservs, publications, association membership and attendance at library conferences. The report includes detail on the percentage of academic librarians who read print publications about libraries, or use …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Entire Popular Science Archive Now Available Online Free

Popular Science: “We’ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. And today we’re excited to announce you can browse the full archive right here on PopSci.com. As you will soon see, it’s an …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

WSJ: Top Cleantech Companies

“In The Wall Street Journal’s first survey of venture-backed clean technology companies, three makers of solar cells came out on top: Solyndra Inc. of Fremont, Calif.; Suniva Inc. of Norcross, Ga.; and eSolar Inc. of Pasadena, Calif. The rankings, announced Thursday at the Journal’s ECO:Nomics Executive Conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., seek to identify those …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Jonathan Band's Chart of Possible Google Book Search Settlement Results

Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search: “Now that the fairness hearing on the Google Books Settlement has occurred, it is up to Judge Chin to decide whether the proposed settlement is “fair, reasonable, and adequate.” The attached chart attempts to diagram some of the possible paths forward. Notwithstanding the complexity of the …

Subjects: Copyright, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

Technology Review's 50 Most Innovative Companies

“To select the 50 most innovative companies in the world, the editors of Technology Review looked for those that over the last year have demonstrated their superiority at inventing technology and using it both to grow as businesses and to transform how we live. We identified the companies that have the most promising technologies, whether …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

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