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“The 2006 Gold Mouse Report: Recognizing the Best Web Sites on Capitol Hill marks the third time that the Congressional Management Foundation has evaluated all Member, committee, and leadership Web sites and recognized the best Congressional Web sites with Mouse Awards.” Press release: “A new report card on congressional Web sites from the Congressional Management …
“The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report that 34% of internet users have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else. The report profiles these wireless users and describes their intensive use of the internet, especially in exchanging emails …
“The Tyndall Report monitors the weekday nightly newscasts of the three American broadcast television networks: ABC World News with Charles Gibson, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams…The Tyndall Blog monitors and comments on each night’s newscasts and links to the stories that the networks aired.” Links to a …
FindSounds – Search the Web for Sounds – “…free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web.”
“OpenStreetMap is an free and open collaborative map of the entire world. We gather GPS tracks and draw maps over them, in an editable wiki style database. And recently we added aerial imagery to our toolbox, thanks to Yahoo!, so dense urban areas and remote locations can be mapped just by tracing streets in the …
Via Marcus P. Zillman, news of his latest Awareness Watch Newsletter, on Script Resources. “Resources for scripts, codes and programming languages on the Internet continue to expand at a very rapid rate especially with the developments in the Web 2.0, MashUps, and the constant creation of new applications which of course foster new scripts.”
Pew Research Center, Americans and Social Trust: Who, Where and Why February 22, 2007: “Social trust is a belief in the honesty, integrity and reliability of others – a “faith in people.” It’s a simple enough concept to describe. But it’s never been easy to figure out who trusts, or why.”
Telecommunications: Issues Related to the Structure and Funding of Public Television, GAO-07-150, and Highlights, January 19, 2007. “How to fund public television has been a concern since the first noncommercial educational station went on the air in 1953. The use of federal funds to help support public television has been a particular point of discussion …
Via UN Pulse: “The newly-launched United Nations Counter-Terrorism Online Handbook showcases United Nations’ system-wide resources and activities in the field of counter-terrorism. The handbook is a collaborative effort of the UN Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF), which brings together 24 UN departments, programmes, funds, offices and agencies that have a counter-terrorism related mandate as well …
Knowledge Discovery Resources 2007 – An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation, by Marcus P. Zillman LLRX.com Guide to State and Federal Legislative Research, by Sabrina I. Pacifici LawPro Links – An A to Z Directory of Web Resources, by Sabrina I. Pacifici Commentary: The Real Costs of America’s Nuclear Power Program and the Impact on …
“By 2011 one in every 178 U.S. residents will live in prison, according to a new report released [February 13, 2007] by the Public Safety Performance Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Public Safety, Public Spending: Forecasting America’s Prison Population 2007-2011 [52 pages, PDF] projects that by 2011 America will have more than 1.7 million …
Press release, February 12, 2007: “The Prescription Project…called on academic medical centers, professional medical societies and public and private payers to end conflicts of interest resulting from the $12 billion spent annually on pharmaceutical marketing. Building on a series of reforms recommended last year in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association …
