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“A new study of the skills and characterisitics important to online newsrooms has been released by Medill Schol of Journalism and the cooperation of the Online News Association.” The Roles of Journalists in Online Newsrooms, by C. Max Magee, released November 1, 2006: “The survey findings depict an online journalism that is tethered to traditional …
Press release, November 1, 2006: “The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), two of the leading public-interest advocacy groups working on behalf of a more diverse and competitive online environment, filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission, calling on the commission to undertake an immediate, …
From kaiserEDU.org: “SmartLinks provides ‘pre-queried’ searches on health policy topics (Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Electronic Medical Records; Children’s Health Coverage; Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan; Direct-to-Consumer Advertising; Public Health Preparedness; Drug Safety and Regulation; Stem Cell Policy; Drug Reimportation; VA Health System) in several different internet search engines. You’ll get results from: PubMed, Kaisernetwork Daily …
ComputerWorld – E-voting state by state: What you need to know “Computerworld appreciates the assistance of Electionline.org, a project of the Pew Charitable Trust, in the compilation of this project. We also read closely and highly recommend the joint survey from The Century Institute, the Common Cause Education Fund and The Leadership Conference on Civil …
“Rep. Jay Inslee…asked the inspector general at the Interior Department to find out if political appointees have changed recommendations on threatened species written by biologists at the federal agency.” [Inslee’s letter to the inspector general, October 30, 2006]
Minority Staff of the House Government Reform Committee press release, November 1, 2006: “Rep. Waxman releases a fact sheet explaining that the growing incidence of contamination in fresh produce is a symptom of weaknesses in the federal food safety system.” Fact Sheet: Weaknesses in FDA’s Food Safety System, October 30, 2006
CongressPedia, Members of Congress under investigation: “This article is an index of the members of Congress currently under investigation by the congressional ethics committees (House and Senate) or law enforcement authorities, based on credible media reports.”
K. A. Taipale, “Deconstructing Information Warfare,” presented to the Committee on Policy Consequences and Legal/Ethical Implications of Offensive Information Warfare, The National Academies, Washington, DC (Oct. 30, 2006) [download presentation slides in PDF).
Status of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Program in Iraq (48 pages, PDF), October 29, 2006 : “The U.S. government continues to advance capacity-development programs in Iraq’s ministries and provinces. For the past four decades, Iraq was a statist economy with a highly centralized administration. Baghdad drove budgeting and service delivery through ministries that funded the …
Improved Administration Can Enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection Classified Laptop Computer Security, Unclassified Summary, OIG-06-64 (PDF, 3 pages) November 1, 2006. Improved Administration Can Enchance Science and Technology Classified Laptop Computer Security, OIG-06-63, Unclassified Summary, (PDF, 3 pages) November 1, 2006.
Cooperative Research Programs Security Research Status Report: “TRB’s Cooperative Research Program produces a table summarizing more than 60 security and emergency preparedness projects representing over $9 million in the contract research programs for state departments of transportation and the public transportation industry. Updated monthly. Posted on November 1, 2006.” Transportation Security: A Summary of Transportation …
North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Motivations, Implications, and U.S. Options, October 24, 2006 (22 pages, PDF)