The Art of Written Persuasion: Part V – Improve Your Vocabulary, Improve Your Success: Troy Simpson returns with this fifth article in the series, and investigates the link between having a good vocabulary [lawyers have a speaking acquaintance with around 23,000 words] and being a persuasive lawyer. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Report: Megaregions and America's economic recovery
Megaregions and Americas economic recovery – A look at opportunities for megaregional planning across the U.S. [This article appears in the September 2009 issue of the Urbanist] “The Obama administration’s commitment to high-speed rail, including $8 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and another $5 billion in the president’s proposed budget, provides a… Continue Reading
EU: intelligent information system supporting observation, searching and detection for security of citizens in urban environment
EU Project INDECT – “The main objectives of the INDECT project are: to develop a platform for: the registration and exchange of operational data, acquisition of multimedia content, intelligent processing of all information and automatic detection of threats and recognition of abnormal behaviour or violence, to develop the prototype of an integrated, network-centric system supporting… Continue Reading
Survey: Substantial Growth in Online Social Networking by Lawyers Over the Past Year
2009 Networks for Counsel Study – A Global Study of the Legal Industrys Adoption of Online Professional Networking, Preferences, Usage and Future Predictions – Sample Composition: “The survey was administered to 1,474 counsel 764 private practice lawyers and 710 corporate counsel in May and June of 2009; 33 countries were represented. Financial Services, Manufacturing… Continue Reading
Federal Register On HeinOnline is Updated Daily
HeinOnline blog: “HeinOnline has had Federal Register coverage back to 1936 for several years now, but restrictions in our production process limited how quickly we could get new Federal Register days online. Recently, those production restrictions were eliminated, and starting at the end of July HeinOnline began updating the Federal Register on a daily basis.… Continue Reading
DHA OIG Audit of TSA Privacy Stewardship
OIG-09-97 – Transportation Security Administration Privacy Stewardship (PDF, 36 pages), August 28, 2009 “We performed an audit of the Transportation Security Administrations (TSA) privacy stewardship. Our audit objective was to determine whether TSAs plans and activities instill and promote a privacy culture and comply with federal privacy laws and regulations. As part of this audit,… Continue Reading
IBM Patent Application – 'Platform for Capturing Knowledge'
IBM Patent Application: Platform for Capturing Knowledge, September 10, 2009: “A platform used for capturing knowledge. More specifically, a framework configured to capture expert knowledge (e.g., of trained and/or skilled workers) for future instructional purposes (e.g., training of a younger, or less experienced, workforce). The platform comprises a knowledge recorder, instructional design tool, standardized XML,… Continue Reading
Pew Survey: The Internet as a Diversion
The Internet as a Diversion, September 2009: “Three-quarters of online economic users go online to relax and take their minds off of the recession. Fully 88% of 18-29 year old online economic users look to the internet to relax.” See also: The Internet and the Recession, July 15, 2009 Related postings on financial system Continue Reading
Global Trade Alert – "independent monitoring of policies that affect world trade"
Global Trade Alert (GTA) independent monitoring of policies that affect world trade – “provides real-time information on state measures taken during the current global downturn that are likely to affect foreign commerce. It goes beyond other monitoring initiatives by identifying the trading partners likely to be harmed by these measures. The GTA is coordinated by… Continue Reading
Legality of Intrusion-Detection System To Protect Unclassified Computers Networks In Executive Branch
In following this January 9, 2009 memo, Legal Issues Relating to the Testing, Use and Deployment of an Intrusion-Detection System (EINSTEIN 2.0) to Protect Unclassified Computer Networks in the Executive Branch, this DOJ memo released September 18, 2009: Legality of Intrusion-Detection System To Protect Unclassified Computers Networks In Executive Branch – “Operation of the EINSTEIN… Continue Reading
OPM Telework Call for Data 2009: Results
Status of Telework in the Federal Government, Report to the Congress: “In February 2009, seventy-eight Executive Branch agencies submitted data on their telework programs to the Office of Personnel Management. These data represent telework participation and related activities between January 1 and December 31, 2008. Agencies have been submitting these reports to OPM since 2001,… Continue Reading
Pew: Public Evaluations of the News Media: 1985-2009
Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low: “The publics assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans views of media bias and independence now match previous lows. Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts… Continue Reading
