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PBS.org FRONTLINE – Ghana, Digital Dumping Ground: “When containers of old computers first began arriving in West Africa a few years ago, Ghanaians welcomed what they thought were donations to help bridge the digital divide. But soon exporters learned to exploit the loopholes by labeling junk computers “donations”…[What is on the hard drives from this …
Optimizing Web Traffic via the Media Scheduling Problem. Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinbergy, Ravi Kumar, 15th ACM SIGKDD Intl. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2009: “Website traffic varies through time in consistent and predictable ways, with highest traffic in the middle of the day. When providing media content to visitors, it is important to …
The Economist: “TEN years ago DVDs rejuvenated the film business, encouraging people to own films rather than simply watch them. But sales, which began declining gradually in 2006, are now falling more steeply. Around a third of the drop in the first quarter was counteracted by rising sales of high-definition Blu-ray discs, which are more …
Pew Research Center: Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media – Scientific Achievements Less Prominent Than a Decade Ago “Americans like science. Overwhelming majorities say that science has had a positive effect on society and that science has made life easier for most people. Most also say that government investments in science, as well as …
From Visual Economics, this graphical image: Where Does the Money Go? – U.S. Consumer Unit Expenditures – average annual expenditures and percentage of total, using data from Bureau of Labor Statistics.
News release: “An Environmental Working Group (EWG) investigation of almost 200 popular bottled water brands found less than 2 percent disclose the waters source, how the water has been purified and what chemical pollutants each bottle of water may contain. Just 2 of the 188 individual brands EWG analyzed disclosed those three basic facts about …
CSFI – Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation: “The resilience of the global microfinance industry will be put to the test by the economic crisis, according to a new survey of the risks to the business, Microfinance Banana Skins 2009, by David Lascelles and Sam Mendelson. Far from being insulated from the economic mainstream …
Why The Economist is thriving while Time and Newsweek fade, by Michael Hirschorn, The Atlantic, July/August 2009 “Newsweeks recent decision to get out of the news-digesting business and reposition itself as a high-end magazine selling in-depth commentary and reportage follows Time magazines emergency retrenchment along similar lines. It accelerates a process by which the 76-year-old …
“Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world’s outstanding manuscripts. Together with Codex Vaticanus, it is one of the earliest extant Bibles, containing the oldest complete New Testament. This treasured codex is indispensable for understanding the earliest text of the Greek Bible, the transmission of its text, the establishment of the Christian canon, and the history …
Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools for the Next Generation of Public Service – Driving high performance through more engaging, accountable and citizen-focused service “Web 2.0 technologies and services have spread around the world at an amazing pace and are used by millions of people every day. Many public service organizations are also adopting Web 2.0 applications …
USAspending.gov: Where Americans Can See Where Their Money Goes – Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where Federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the Government is really doing with your money.” “The IT …
Science Daily: “On July 2 the detectors of Planck’s High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2. Planck is equipped with a passive cooling system …
