Category «Knowledge Management»

Does Greater Energy Efficienty Encourage Increased Consumption?

The Economist: “Energy efficiency is probably the most popular environmental panacea. While politicians discuss complicated global climate-change deals, economists tinker with intricate emissions-trading schemes and engineers design a new generation of nuclear-power plants, many greens advocate simpler steps: buying more efficient cars, replacing wasteful incandescent bulbs with efficient fluorescent ones and installing proper insulation. The …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Reading on the Decline in the United States

The New Yorker, Twilight of the Books – What will life be like if people stop reading? by Caleb Crain. “…In 1970, according to Editor & Publisher International Year Book, there were 62.1 million weekday newspapers in circulationabout 0.3 papers per person. Since 1990, circulation has declined steadily, and in 2006 there were just 52.3 …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Future Trends in State Courts 2007

“The National Center for State Courts has published Future Trends in State Courts 2007, the latest in its long-running Report on Trends in the State Courts series. This book, which is produced annually by NCSCs Knowledge and Information Service, helps to make courts more aware of important trends in society and judicial administration that could …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Google and Microsoft Battle Over Future of Desktop and Web

New York Times: Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft – “The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about their digital lives. Google sees …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Microsoft, Search Engines

Free, Searchable Database of The Mitchell Report

Follow up to December 13, 2007 posting Senator George J. Mitchell Releases Report on Major League Baseball Investigation, this news: “A free, searchable database of The Mitchell Report has been released by askSam Systems. The askSam database contains a full-text searchable archive of George J. Mitchell’s report to the commissioner of baseball on the investigation …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Acceptance Speech, Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007

Acceptance Speech, Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007, December 7, 2007: “…We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women who have had years of education, to know nothing about the world, to have read nothing, …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

2007 Newspaper National Network Influencer Study

Press release: “A new study released today by the Newspaper National Network LP reports that Newspaper Website Users are 52% more likely to be Influencers, based on the MRI definition, as compared with Newspaper Website Non-Users. Study findings highlight the power Newspaper Website Users have to shape opinions about new products, technologies, and issues. Adults …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Nobel Lecture given by The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2007, Al Gore

The Nobel Lecture given by The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2007, Al Gore (Oslo, December 10, 2007): “…In the last few months, it has been harder and harder to misinterpret the signs that our world is spinning out of kilter. Major cities in North and South America, Asia and Australia are nearly out of water …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

CRS Report – Open Source Intelligence

Via OpenCRS – CRS Report, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Issues for Congress, December 5, 2007 (27 pages, PDF). “Open source information (OSINT) is derived from newspapers, journals, radio and television, and the Internet. Intelligence analysts have long used such information to supplement classified data, but systematically collecting open source information has not been a priority …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Report: Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history

Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history, Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history, David D. Zhang, Peter Brecke, Harry F. Lee, Yuan-Qing He, and Jane Zhang. Published online before print November 28, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703073104 – PNAS | December 4, 2007 | vol. 104 | no. 49 …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Journalists in Iraq – A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines

Project for Excellence in Journalism: “After four years of war in Iraq, the journalists reporting from that country give their coverage a mixed but generally positive assessment, but they believe they have done a better job of covering the American military and the insurgency than they have the lives of ordinary Iraqis. And they do …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

World AIDS Day 2007 Resources from the Kaiser Family Foundation

“In preparation for this years World AIDS Day, December 1 2007, the Kaiser Family Foundation would like to highlight several new resources that may be of interest, including updated HIV/AIDS fact sheets and web tools, and developments in some of our global public education campaigns designed to raise awareness about HIV.” [Link to resource guide …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

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