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The New Yorker: Digitization and its discontents, by Anthony Grafton, November 5, 2007 “…the Internet will not bring us a universal library, much less an encyclopedic record of human experience. None of the firms now engaged in digitization projects claim that it will create anything of the kind. The hype and rhetoric make it hard …
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change, Kurt M. Campbell, Jay Gulledge, J.R. McNeill, John Podesta, Peter Ogden, leon Fuerth, R. James Woolsey, Alexander T.J. lennon, Julianne Smith, Richard Weitz, and Derek Mix, November 2007 “Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to …
“The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School is pleased to present the results of the sixth year of our project, “Surveying the Digital Future.” The six years of longitudinal research comprise an absolutely unique data base that completely captures broadband at home, the wireless Internet, on-line media, user-generated content and, now, …
The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future: “Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM’s text mining tools and services.” “One of the defining challenges of e-Science is dealing with the data deluge information overload …
UNESCO launches new Literacy Portal: “In todays world, one in five adults is still not literate (two-thirds of them women) while 72 million children are out-of-school. Since its foundation in 1946, UNESCO has been at the forefront of global literacy efforts and is dedicated to keep literacy high on national, regional and international agendas. However, …
OCLC press release and related links: “The practice of using a social network to establish and enhance relationships based on some common groundshared interests, related skills, or a common geographic locationis as old as human societies, but social networking has flourished due to the ease of connecting on the Web. This OCLC membership report explores …
Press release: “The latest Taking Stock report from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) reveals that a continued decline in releases of toxic chemicals to the environment15 percent for the United States and Canada from 1998 to 2004is being driven by a group of industrial facilities that are the largest generators of emissions. The CEC …
Ceres: “Global warming and the growing incidence of extreme weather events pose an enormous challenge to the insurance industry. This summer’s devastating floods in Europe and wildfires in the West are only the latest reminder of why investors and consumers are concerned about the impacts of climate change on insurers. This report focuses on the …
Reuters: The new “DailyShow.com…presenting nearly the entire video archive of the show for the past nine years. The site contains more than 16,000 video clips spanning headlines, correspondent pieces and [selected] regular segments…”
“The majority of Americans agree, when it comes to grading the Federal government on fiscal responsibility and management efficiency, the Federal government gets nothing higher than a “C”. According to the recent America, Inc. study, sponsored by Primavera, the general public feels left in the dark as far as knowing how the government spends their …
The Rise of the Machines report, July 2006, details the explosion of energy using products in the home from the 1970s to now. Written by Paula Owen.
Press release: “The eHealth Initiative Blueprint: Building Consensus for Common Action represents multi-stakeholder consensus on a shared vision and a set of principles, strategies and actions for improving health and healthcare through information and information technology (IT). Through a collaborative process led by eHIs multi-stakeholder leadership, development of the Blueprint involved nearly 200 organizations representing …
