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Tobacco Cessation Among Users of Telephone and Web-Based Interventions – Four States, 2011–2012
Tobacco Cessation Among Users of Telephone and Web-Based Interventions — Four States, 2011–2012 – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). January 2, 2015 / 63(51);1217-1221. Mary Puckett, PhD, Antonio Neri, MD, Trevor Thompson, J. Michael Underwood, PhD, Behnoosh Momin, MS, MPH, Jennifer Kahende, PhD, Lei Zhang, PhD, Sherri L. Stewart, PhD (Author affiliations at end of text) “Smoking caused… Continue Reading
Civilisation 2030: The Near Future for Law Firms’
Via jomati: “In this report, ‘Civilisation 2030: The Near Future for Law Firms’ we explore what will be the impact on clients and law firms of three key factors that shape the global economy: demographics, the growth of global cities and megacities, as well as the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics into both… Continue Reading
BITAG Report Demystifies the Network of Networks We Call the Internet
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Chief Technologist, Center for Democracy & Technology – “Over the past five months, I had the privilege of co-editing – with Time Warner Cable’s Jason Weil – a report on Internet interconnection by the Broadband Internet Technology Advisory Group (BITAG) that we released this past weekend. BITAG’s technical working group (a multistakeholder collection of technologists)… Continue Reading
Russia plans to launch national digital library in 2015
Calvert Journal – “Next year we will launch a national electronic library, set to be the largest collection of online texts, books, magazines and so on [in Russia],” Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky told regional governors. “We will send you an approved model of a library, the implementation of which will allow the libraries to be… Continue Reading
Copyright and Viral Advertising in Participatory Culture
Erickson, Kris, Copyright and Viral Advertising in Participatory Culture (January 1, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2540540 “This chapter first offers an introduction to current theory on viral advertising from literature in sociology and communication, exploring the contradictory status of the viral advertisement as a media form. The three principal differentiating characteristics of the viral… Continue Reading
