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National Safety Council: What are the odds of dying? – “The table [included on this page] was prepared in response to frequent inquiries, especially from the media, asking questions such as, “What are the odds of being killed by lightning?” or “What are the chances of dying in a plane crash?” August 2, 2006. “National …
LC Country Profile of China, August 8, 2006 (43 pages, PDF)
Press release: The University of California libraries today (August 9, 2006) announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. UC becomes the latest partner in the Google Books Library Project, which was launched in December 2004 to digitize books drawn from the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford …
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: Public Holds Conflicting Views of Press Reports about Government Monitoring Bank Records, Released August 8, 2006. “Summary of Findings – The public is of two minds about news reports that the government has been secretly examining the bank records of American citizens who may have …
“You can watch Wi-Fi TV in most places around the world (including the USA) for free on any Internet enabled device.”
Press release: Pragmatic Americans Liberal and Conservative on Social Issues, August 3, 2006 Full report (30 pages, PDF)
Assessment of Benchmarking Within Government, Accenture, May 2006. Press release: “Governments at all levels are increasingly using benchmarking tools to improve organizational performance, although most see room for improving their benchmarking capabilities, according to a global study…by Accenture…the study, based on a survey of more than 230 government executives in 10 countries, looked at the …
Pew Research Center: Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership Maturing Internet News Audience Broader Than Deep, Released: July 30, 2006. “A decade ago, just one-in-fifty Americans got the news with some regularity from what was then a brand new source the internet. Today, nearly one-in-three regularly get news online…The rise of the internet has also …
About Google Trends: “With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have searched for them …
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon: “UNIFIL was created in 1978 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, restore the international peace and security, and help the Lebanese Government restore its effective authority in the area.” Press releases issued by Mission headquarters
Collaborative Reference Work in the Blogosphere, by Jeffrey Pomerantz (16 pages, PDF): “This paper explores the use of blogs as a platform for providing reference service, and discusses Lycemum, and open source software project from ibiblio.org, for this purpose.”
Francisco, James R., “Knowledge Management Tools Supporting Education” (July 2006). [Link to download] “Knowledge management tools are becoming a significant component in the development of learning management systems. This paper examines recent research in the application of KM systems and tools to the academic environment.”
