WSJ: “The 85-page proposal is part of an effort by the Obama administration to redraw the rules that govern finance in an attempt to restore confidence in U.S. and global markets. Obama administration officials want the rules to be tough enough to correct some of the damage caused by the financial crisis last year but… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
New on LLRX.com – The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service
The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries – Stuart Basefsky advocates broadening the concept of institutional repositories (IRs) to serve as full-fledged electronic libraries and documents how they can then serve the greater purpose of collecting, disseminating, analyzing and exchanging useful digital information for… Continue Reading
Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture and Dissent
Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent – By Bruce Etling, John Kelly, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey – Internet & Democracy Case Study Series, June 2009. Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2009-06 “This study explores the structure and content of the Arabic blogosphere using link analysis, term frequency analysis, and human coding of… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Army's Modernization of Combat Systems, Federal Bankruptcy Judges, Influenza Pandemic, NASA
Defense Acquisitions: Issues to be Considered for Army’s Modernization of Combat Systems, GAO-09-793T, June 16, 2009 Federal Bankruptcy Judges: Measuring Judges’ Case-Related Workload, GAO-09-808T, June 16, 2009 Influenza Pandemic: Greater Agency Accountability Needed to Protect Federal Workers in the Event of a Pandemic, GAO-09-783T, June 16, 2009 NASA: Commercial Partners Are Making Progress, but Face… Continue Reading
Joint Audit of Blackwater Contract and Task Orders for Worldwide Personal Protective Services in Iraq
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Joint Audit of Blackwater Contract and Task Orders for Worldwide Personal Protective Services in Iraq, Report Numbers AUD/IQO-09-16,SIGIR 09-021, June 2009. Unclassified. “The joint audit addressed the following four objectives pertaining to the Blackwater task orders under the Department of State Worldwide Personal Protective Services II contract: (1) What… Continue Reading
Conference Board: Social Media Explosion
“Social networks are exploding in popularity. Forty-three percent of the online community now uses social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. This is up from 27 percent a year ago, reports The Conference Board and TNS. The Consumer Internet Barometer, a quarterly report produced by The Conference Board, the global business membership and research… Continue Reading
FDIC Supervisory Insights – Devoted to Advancing the Practice of Bank Supervision, Summer 2009
“This issue of Supervisory Insights provides a chronology of selected major events and developments that occurred in the financial services industry during a tumultuous 2008. Although the long term effects are unclear, certain points of emphasis for bank supervisors are emerging, and A Year in Bank Supervision: 2008 and a Few of Its Lessons offers… Continue Reading
The Digital Britain Report
“On 16 June the Government published The Digital Britain Report, its strategic vision for ensuring that the UK is at the leading edge of the global digital economy. The report provides actions and recommendations to promote and protect talent and innovation in our creative industries, to modernise TV and radio frameworks and support local news,… Continue Reading
YouTube and Google's new technology platform – Citizentube
Official Google Blog: “…Citizentube, a special YouTube blog devoted to chronicling the way that people are using video to change the world. If you’ve followed news and politics on YouTube, you might have noticed that we started Citizentube as a video channel on the site a few years back, but we soon realized that keeping… Continue Reading
ABA: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women Attorneys
Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women Attorneys – “This is a unique, inspirational collection of letters from 44 experienced women attorneys of color to the next generation outlining various roadmaps for success in the legal profession as a minority woman attorney. The book is organized by practice settings: (a) large and… Continue Reading
DHS – Refugees and Asylees: 2008
DHS Office of Immigration Statistics – Refugees and Asylees: 2008, Daniel C. Martin AND Michael Hoefer “The United States provides refuge to persons who have been persecuted or have a well-founded fear of persecution through two programs: one for refugees (persons outside the U.S.) and one for asylees (persons in the U.S.). This Office of… Continue Reading
IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with the United States
News release: “The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released the concluding statement by the staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following this year’s Article IV Consultation with the United States. This statement represents the independent judgment and assessment by IMF staff of U.S. economic performance and policies. Release of this statement is consistent… Continue Reading
