News release: “World Wide Web Foundation (Web Foundation), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the Web to empower people, announced the launch of global operations including the existence of its first projects. Speaking at the 2009 Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a Web Foundation board member, unveiled the organizations… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
ACLU Report – Building American Institutions to Protect Privacy in the Face of New Technology and Government Powers
“The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report, Enforcing Privacy: Building American Institutions to Protect Privacy in the Face of New Technology and Government Powers, November 2009, written by Jay Stanley, recommending steps Congress should take to create the vigorous privacy oversight institutions that are desperately needed in the United States to counterbalance… Continue Reading
Updated Sentencing Guidelines Manual Now Available Online
“The 2009 Guidelines Manual (effective November 1, 2009) is available in HTML and Adobe .PDF formats (large file and broken into chapters), which can be viewed, downloaded or printed via the website.” Related postings on sentencing guidelines Continue Reading
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Now Law
Follow up to previous postings on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the New York Times reports: “The most important new antidiscrimination law in two decades the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act will take effect in the nations workplaces next weekend, prohibiting employers from requesting genetic testing or considering someones genetic background in hiring, firing… Continue Reading
Unemployment, 2004 to Present – Graphical Data Delinates Impact
Unemployment, 2004 to Present, via Flowing Data – the work of Nathan Yau. Click to pan and zoom. Right click for more options. View raw image. Related postings on financial system Continue Reading
Leaders and Laggards A State-By-State Report Card of Educational Innovation
“Two years ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Center for American Progress, and Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute came together to grade the states on school performance. In that first Leaders and Laggards report, we found much to applaud but even more that requires urgent improvement. In this follow-up report, we… Continue Reading
Terrorism Information Sharing and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Report Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress
CRS Report R40901 – Terrorism Information Sharing and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Report Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress, November 05, 2009 “The 2004 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission) cited breakdowns in information sharing and the failure to fuse pertinent intelligence (i.e., “connecting the dots”) as key factors… Continue Reading
Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons, Extemists and Ameican Security
Defending the Arsenal – In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? by Seymour M. Hersh “Pakistan has been a nuclear power for two decades, and has an estimated eighty to a hundred warheads, scattered in facilities around the country…[the Obama] Administration has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military. These… Continue Reading
100 Milestone Documents From National Archives and Records Administration
100 Milestone Documents – “The following is a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.” “The list begins with the Lee Resolution of June 7, 1776, a simple document resolving that the… Continue Reading
Amended Settlement Filed in Authors Guild v. Google
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search, news from the Authors Guild that 14 minutes before before midnight on November 13, 2009, “the parties filed with the Court an Amended Settlement Agreement and a motion for preliminary approval of the amended settlement. The parties’ motion also seeks Court approval of a Supplemental Notice… Continue Reading
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor – The Microfinance Gateway
“The Microfinance Gateway is the most comprehensive online resource for the global microfinance community. The website features research and publications, original articles, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest industry announcements, news, events, and job opportunities.” Poor Women and their Money: between Daily Survival, Private Life, Family Obligations and Social Norms, by Isabelle Guérin –… Continue Reading
Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows
Cognitive control in media multitaskers – Eyal Ophira, Clifford Nassb, and Anthony D. Wagnerc, Symbolic Systems Program and Department of Communication, and Department of Psychology and Neurosciences Program, Stanford University “Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A series of experiments… Continue Reading
