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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
Treasury Imposes Sanctions Against the Government of Democratic People’s Republic Of Korea
Treasury News Release: “In response to the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s numerous provocations, particularly the recent cyber-attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment and the threats against movie theaters and moviegoers, President Obama today signed an Executive Order (E.O.) authorizing the imposition of sanctions against the Government of North Korea and the Workers’… Continue Reading
Brazil is the 8th largest total energy consumer and 10th largest producer in the world
“The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that in 2013, Brazil was the eighth-largest energy consumer in the world and the third-largest in the Americas (North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America), behind the United States and Canada. Total primary energy consumption in Brazil has increased by more than one-third in the past decade… Continue Reading
USPTO’s Plain Language Toolkit Empowers Public on Patent Litigation
Director’s Forum: A Blog from USPTO’s Leadership – September 15, 2014: “Following President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union call to curb abusive patent litigation, I joined with the National Economic Council and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to announce the progress the USPTO had made in response to some of the president’s executive actions on… Continue Reading
Senators Seek Answers on Use of Cell Phone Surveillance Devices
EPIC: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have asked Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson several questions about the government’s use of cell site simulators or “Stingray” devices to track cell phones. According to the letter, the Senators previously asked FBI Director James Comey… Continue Reading
2014 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary
The Chief Justice’s 2014 Year-End Report – December 31, 2014. “The Supreme Court is currently developing its own electronic filing system, which may be operational as soon as 2016. Once the system is implemented, all filings at the Court—petitions and responses to petitions, merits briefs, and all other types of motions and applications—will be available to the legal community and… Continue Reading
