WSJ: The Digital Dictatorship Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia. – “It’s fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom…For example, while the American public is actively engaged in a rich and provocative debate about the Internet’s impact on our own societyasking how new technologies affect our privacy or how they change the way we read and thinkwe gloss over such subtleties when talking about the Internet’s role in authoritarian countries.”
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Daily Archives: February 20, 2010
Univ. of California Scientists Model Crime Pattern Formation in Urban Areas
Science NOW – The Mathematics of Clumpy Crime: “Even in a sprawling city like Los Angeles, crime still clumps together. Mathematical models of burglars presented…at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW) show that these so-called crime hot spots form when previous crimes attract more criminals to… Continue Reading
The Public Index Tracks and Discusses Google Book Search Settlement
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search, this annotated public interest resource: “The Public Index is a project of the Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School. We are a group of professors, students, and volunteers who believe that the Google Book Search… Continue Reading
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development – Labour Market Outlook
“The quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook [February 2010] aims to offer an early indication of future changes to the labour market around recruitment, redundancy and pay intentions. The survey is based on a survey of more than 700 HR professionals, who are mainly drawn from the CIPDs membership of more than 135,000 HR professionals. The… Continue Reading
Contractor UK – Half of IT firms plan to offshore jobs
News release: “Almost half of IT companies plan to relocate jobs abroad, making the technology industry the UKs likeliest private sector employer to build-out operations offshore. In a survey of more than 700 employers, India emerged as the preferred overseas destination for the 10 per cent of respondents looking to export jobs from the UK.… Continue Reading
