January 20, 2015 | beSpacific

Intellectual Property and Trust in the Age of Digital Media

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jan 20, 2015

Tonia Ries – Media Sources: Search Engines Now Most Trusted

“The 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a new formula for building trust, one in which engagement carries a multiplier effect. Engagement and ongoing communication and dialogue with multiple stakeholders are both more critical than ever, but also more difficult to execute well. Today’s reality is that CEOs are not trusted to be credible spokespersons for their organization (only 43 percent believe CEOs have credibility) and more people now look for business information on search engines (31 percent) than television (22 percent) or newspapers (21 percent). Businesses and other institutions need a new strategy for starting and influencing conversations about their organization or industry, one in which the creation and stewardship of intellectual property plays a key role. Today’s media landscape is vastly different compared to 15 years ago, when the Trust Barometer was first fielded. For the first time in 2015, search engines are now the most trusted source for general news and information among the informed public, surpassing traditional media by two percentage points among the global informed public, and by eight percentage points among Millennials. Social media has risen to a trust level of 48 percent (59 percent among Millennials). Today, it’s all about starting peer-to-peer conversations and making sure that your content is easy to find.”

Old ice in Arctic vanishingly rare

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jan 20, 2015

NOAA: “Since the 1980s, the amount of perennial ice in the Arctic has declined. This animation tracks the relative amount of ice of different ages from 1987 through early November 2014. The oldest ice is white; the youngest (seasonal) ice is dark blue. Key patterns are the export of ice from the Arctic through Fram… Continue Reading

International banking statistics at end-September 2014

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jan 20, 2015

“The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today released international banking statistics at end-September 2014. International banking activity continued to expand in the third quarter of 2014. The $493 billion quarterly expansion in global cross-border claims boosted the annual growth rate to about 5% at end-September 2014 from 1% at end-June 2014. The increase in cross-border… Continue Reading

Hubble’s High-Definition Panoramic View of the Andromeda Galaxy

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jan 20, 2015

Maanya Sachdeva – “Have you seen the largest picture ever taken? For the record, it’s a mammoth 1.5 billion pixel image (69, 536 x 22, 230) and requires about 4.3 GB disk space. Oh, and it’ll take your breath away. On January 5, NASA released an image of the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbour,… Continue Reading

The Cobweb – Can the Internet be archived?

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jan 20, 2015

The New Yorker – Annals of Technology. January 26, 2015 Issue. The Cobweb Can the Internet be archived? By Jill Lepore “…The Web dwells in a never-ending present. It is—elementally—ethereal, ephemeral, unstable, and unreliable. Sometimes when you try to visit a Web page what you see is an error message: “Page Not Found.” This is… Continue Reading

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2014

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jan 20, 2015

Release Number: CB15-TPS.03 – “This table package provides Current Population Survey statistics on academic achievement by demographic characteristics, such as age, sex and Hispanic origin. It also includes detailed information on years of school completed, showing how many years of education adults have completed for each level of attainment. A variety of historical time series… Continue Reading

Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jan 20, 2015

“As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log records, and wireless sensor networks has grown, science, engineering, and business have rapidly transitioned from striving to develop information from scant data to a situation in which the challenge is now that the amount of information exceeds a human’s… Continue Reading

Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jan 20, 2015

“Eyewitnesses play an important role in criminal cases when they can identify culprits. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of eyewitnesses make identifications in criminal investigations each year. Research on factors that affect the accuracy of eyewitness identification procedures has given us an increasingly clear picture of how identifications are made, and more importantly, an… Continue Reading

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