Harvard Business Review Case Study on Googling Job Candidates

We Googled You (Harvard Business Review Case Commentary), Diane L. Coutu, John G. Palfrey Jr., Danah M. Boyd, Jeffrey A. Joerres, Michael Fertik, June 1, 2007: “This case depicts an executive who, through an online search, discovers information about a job candidate that causes him concern about her qualifications. The reader considers issues such as …

Subjects: Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

FTC Releases Research on Children’s Exposure to Television Advertising

Press release: “Today’s children see more promotional ads for other programming, but fewer paid ads and fewer minutes of advertising on television, according to a report released today by the staff of the Federal Trade Commission. The research looks at television ad exposure for children in the year 2004 and compares it to similar research …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

DOJ Foreign Agents Registration Act Search Tool Released

FARA Search: “This is an initial release of the FARA document search tool, providing Internet access to the vast majority of public documents on file with the FARA Registration Unit. However, because some potential privacy issues remain under review, there are certain FARA documents not available via the Internet at this time, but which still …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

FTC Working Paper – Retail Gasoline Pricing: What Do We Know?

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics, Working Paper No. 290, Retail Gasoline Pricing: What Do We Know? by Daniel Hosken, Robert McMillan, Christopher Taylor, May 2007. “We examine retail gasoline station pricing using three years of weekly prices for 272 stations in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. We report a number of new empirical …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New Reports from Energy Information Administration on Natural Gas Reserves, Natural Gas Pipelines

World Proved Natural Gas Reserves, January 1, 1980 – January 1, 2007 Estimates (06/01/2007): “A table of World Proved Natural Gas Reserves, January 1, 1980 – January 1, 2007 Estimates is now available. EIA estimates are used for the United States for January 1, 1980 – January 1, 2006. All other estimates are from the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

America’s Diverse Family Farms, 2007 Edition

America’s Diverse Family Farms, 2007 Edition, by Robert A. Hoppe, David E. Banker, Penni Korb, Erik O’Donoghue, and James MacDonald -Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-26) 12 pages, June 2007. “American farms encompass a wide range of sizes, ownership structures, and business types, but most farms are still family farms. Family farms account for 98 percent …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

EPA OIG Releases Annual Superfund Report and Financial Statements for Pesticide Reg. Fund

2007-1-00071 Fiscal Year 2006 and 2005 Financial Statements for the Pesticide Registration Fund [Report PDF – 42 pages] [At a Glance PDF] May 30, 2007 2007-1-00070 Fiscal Year 2006 and 2005 Financial Statements for the Pesticides Reregistration and Expedited Processing Fund [Report PDF – 46 pages] [At a Glance PDF] May 30, 2007 EPA-350-R-07-001 Annual …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents