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Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated and Revised October 2009: Sabrina I. Pacifici’s completely revised and updated pathfinder focuses on leveraging selected reliable, focused, free and low cost sites and sources to effectively profile and monitor companies, markets, countries, people, and issues. This guide is a “best of list” of web, database …
Fossil Fuel Production Up Despite Recession, by James Russell. October 15, 2009 “World production of fossil fuels-oil, coal, and natural gas-increased 2.9 percent in 2008 to reach 27.4 million tons of oil equivalent (Mtoe) per day. In the first half of the year, producers strained to meet global demand, but when the recession took hold …
“Archive-It, a subscription service from the Internet Archive, allows institutions to build and preserve collections of born digital content. Through our user-friendly web application, Archive-It partners can harvest, catalog, manage, and browse their archived collections. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center and are accessible to the public with full-text search…As of October …
“Whether this seasons swine flu turns out to be deadly or mild, most experts agree that its only a matter of time before were hit by a truly devastating flu pandemicone that might kill more people worldwide than have died of the plague and aids combined. In the U.S., the main lines of defense are …
Who’s in Big Brother’s Database? By James Bamford – A review of The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency by Matthew M. Aid. “On a remote edge of Utah’s dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build …
News release: “New data, released by the Catlin Arctic Survey and WWF, provides further evidence of thinning Arctic Ocean sea ice, supporting the emerging thinking that the Ocean will be largely ice-free in summer within a decade. The Catlin Arctic Survey, completed earlier this year, provides the latest ice thickness record, drawn from the only …
Law.Gov: America’s Operating System, Open Source – by Carl Malamud “Public.Resource.Org is very pleased to announce that we’re going to be working with a distinguished group of colleagues from across the country to create a solid business plan, technical specs, and enabling legislation for the federal government to create Law.Gov. We envision Law.Gov as a …
AP: The Wall Street Journal surpasses USA Today as top-selling US daily See also, Huffington Post Passes WashingtonPost.com in Unique Visitors, in September, and in the same E&P article, the “list of top 30 current events and global news destinations for the month of September ranked by unique users…”
Senior Research Specialist Amanda Lenhart’s slideshow presentation, The Democratization of Online Social Networks: A look at the change in demographics of social network users over time, given at AoIR 10.0 in Milwaukee, WI on October 8, 2009.
Bridge Employment and Retirees’ Health: A Longitudinal Investigation, Yujie Zhan, MS, Mo Wang, PhD, and Songqi Liu, MS, University of Maryland; Kenneth S. Shultz, PhD, California State University, San Bernardino; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 4. “The present study examined the relationship between bridge employment and retirees health outcomes (i.e., major diseases, …
News release: “Elinor Ostrom [Indiana University, Bloomington, IN – the first woman awarded this prize]] has demonstrated how common property can be successfully managed by user associations. Oliver Williamson [University of California, Berkeley, CA] has developed a theory where business firms serve as structures for conflict resolution. Over the last three decades these seminal contributions …
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search, this insightful commentary from The American Lawyer – Scanning the Future, by Ben Hallman: “Lawyers familiar with the talks say the book publishing industry had watched in horror as the music business waged a scorched-earth campaign against file-sharing sites like Napster, only to see their profits …
