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2010 edition of Measuring the Information Society, “which features the latest ICT Development Index (IDI) and ICT Price Basket two benchmarking tools to monitor information society developments worldwide. This new edition of the report highlights key trends at the global, regional and national levels, showcasing top performers and identifying the main drivers of change. …
Brandon Badger, Product Manager, Google Books: “I’m happy to announce a few fresh features for Google Books. We’ve updated the home page by adding the ability to scroll through categories of books and magazines. We also integrated the My Library feature into the home page to enable you to create and then share collections of …
“Portfolio.com and Bizjournals analyzed all 420 U.S. cities with populations above 75,000. The studys six-part formula was geared to identify the nations most affluent communities, which it calls wealth centers. [At the bottom of this page]is a sortable database with the rankings for all 420 cities in the study. You can drill down to a …
“The County Health Rankings show us that where we live matters to our health. The health of a community depends on many different factors ranging from individual health behaviors, education and jobs, to quality of health care, to the environment. This first-of-its-kind collection of 50 reports one per state helps community leaders …
Follow up to postings on Google Book Search resources and related litigation, the latest news from The Laboratorium – GBS: Fairness Hearing Report [held February 18, 2010, U.s. District Court, Southern District of New York], with Part I here and Part II here. These report cover the arguments of settlement supporters and opponents; and the …
LLRX.com: Law Firms Now Outsourcers? – With the recent announcement that UK law firm Eversheds will launch its own outsourcing business, Ron Friedmann addresses the question of what exactly is law firm outsourcing, and how does it differ from where lawyers are located.
The Future of the Internet IV: “Experts and stakeholders say the Internet will enhance our intelligence not make us stupid. It will also change the functions of reading and writing and be built around still-unanticipated gadgetry and applications. The battle over control of the internet will rage on and debates about online anonymity will …
Melodic Intonation Therapy: “The technique was developed because a lot of patients who can’t talk can still sing. Gottfried Schlaug, a neurologist at Harvard University, is studying how and why this treatment seems to work for many patients who have failed at other forms of speech therapy. He’s running a randomized clinical trial of the …
Salon – The author of a new book talks about the secret lives of America’s favorite — and endangered — disciplinarians “Marilyn Johnson, a former staff writer for Life magazine…delights in refuting our assumptions about librarians, while making a rock-solid case for their indispensability at a time when library systems are losing an average of …
WSJ: The Digital Dictatorship Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia. – “It’s fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom…For example, while the American public is actively engaged in a rich and …
Science NOW – The Mathematics of Clumpy Crime: “Even in a sprawling city like Los Angeles, crime still clumps together. Mathematical models of burglars presented…at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW) show that these so-called crime hot spots form when previous crimes attract more criminals to …
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search, this annotated public interest resource: “The Public Index is a project of the Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School. We are a group of professors, students, and volunteers who believe that the Google Book Search …
