Via LLRX Creating the Information Literate Warrior: Step 6 to Information Literacy – In his part of her ongoing series, Lorette Weldon concentrates on successful methods for developing needed tools for kids’ study through demonstrations to show them how to find the information on their own. Wikipedia and Information Literacy: Step 5 to Information Literacy… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
UK government rewrites law to permit GCHQ hacking
Privacy International – May 15, 2015: The Government has quietly ushered through legislation amending the anti-hacking laws to exempt GCHQ from prosecution. Privacy International and other parties were notified of this just hours prior to a hearing of their claim against GCHQ’s illegal hacking operations in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. In its legal filings, sent… Continue Reading
DBpedia Wikidata
“DBpedia is one of the first and most prominent nodes of the Linked Open Data cloud. It provides structured data for more than 100 Wikipedia language editions as well as Wikimedia Commons, has a mature ontology and a stable and thorough Linked Data publishing lifecycle. Wikidata, on the other hand, has recently emerged as a… Continue Reading
Guardian – How we sold our souls – and more – to the internet giants
Bruce Schneier – Adapted from Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier, published by Norton Book – Last year, when my refrigerator broke, the repair man replaced the computer that controls it. I realised that I had been thinking about the refrigerator backwards: it’s not a refrigerator with a computer, it’s a computer that keeps food… Continue Reading
Childlessness Falls, Family Size Grows Among Highly Educated Women
Pew Report – Among the Highly Educated, Declines in Childlessness and Increases in Big Families, May 2015 – “Among women in the United States, postgraduate education and motherhood are increasingly going hand-in-hand. The share of highly educated women who are remaining childless into their mid-40s has fallen significantly over the past two decades. Today, about… Continue Reading
Study – regular daily exercise increases male life span
I. Holme, S. A. Anderssen. Increases in physical activity is as important as smoking cessation for reduction in total mortality in elderly men: 12 years of follow-up of the Oslo II study. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2015; 49 (11): 743 DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2014-094522 “Background Physical activity (PA) at leisure by the elderly, and its relationship… Continue Reading
Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety Analysis
“Welcome to the FRA Office of Safety Analysis Web Site. The purpose of this site is to make railroad safety information including accidents and incidents, inventory and highway-rail crossing data readily available to the public. Site users can run dynamic queries, download a variety of safety database files, publications and forms, and view current statistical… Continue Reading
2014 Capital Bikeshare Member Survey Report
“This report [April 3, 2015] presents the results of the November 2014 Capital Bikeshare Customer Use and Satisfaction Surveyconducted for the Capital Bikeshare program (Capital Bikeshare), a program jointly owned and sponsored by the District of Columbia, Arlington County, VA, the City of Alexandria, VA, and Montgomery County, MD, and operated by Motivate International, Inc.… Continue Reading
UN – Universal Periodic Review – United States
“The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human… Continue Reading
Mobile Carriers Will Refund Current and Former Customers
“Sprint and Verizon Wireless customers: You may be entitled to refunds for illegal charges “crammed” onto your bills over the past five years. Both companies have agreed to pay back customers for letting third-party vendors charge them for unauthorized services like premium SMS or text messaging.If you don’t know whether you were billed for these… Continue Reading
GAO – Additional Actions Are Needed to Meet Requirements of Managing Government Records Directive
Information Management: Additional Actions Are Needed to Meet Requirements of the Managing Government Records Directive, GAO-15-339: Published: May 14, 2015. Publicly Released: May 14, 2015. “The federal government collects large amounts of information, increasingly in electronic form, to accomplish its missions. This greater reliance on electronic communication and information technology systems has, as a result,… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Broadband Performance, Financial Audit Congressional Award Foundation
Broadband Performance: Additional Actions Could Help FCC Evaluate Its Efforts to Inform Consumers, GAO-15-363: Published: Apr 17, 2015. Publicly Released: May 15, 2015: “FCC should take additional steps to evaluate its efforts to provide consumers with broadband performance information. This should include: (1) conducting or commissioning research on the effectiveness of its efforts and making… Continue Reading
