Google Fiber Blog: “The web is where we go to connect with people, learn new subjects, and find opportunities for personal and economic growth. But not everyone benefits from all the web has to offer. As many as 26% of households earning less than $30,000 per year don’t access the Internet, compared to just 3%… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Slides from OCLC Research Update at ALA Annual 2015 now online
“This OCLC Research Update took place at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco on Monday, 29 June 2015. The agenda included: Introduction – Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant served as master of ceremonies and provided a quick overview of current OCLC Research highlights. Wikipedia and Libraries – Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt gave… Continue Reading
New EFF Tool Makes Emailing Congress Just a Few Clicks Away
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a new tool that makes emailing your congressional lawmakers a quick and easy process. Democracy.io simplifies and streamlines the current fractured system for contacting lawmakers, allowing you to message your two senators and your representative from a single website. “Democracy thrives when the voices of Internet users are… Continue Reading
DuckDuckGo Founder Highlights Privacy and No Tracking Policy
Andy Meek talked to Gabriel Weinberg, founder of the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo: “Not only is it now a built-in search engine option in browsers like Safari and Firefox, but the company says the trove of news stories about data breaches and revelations of government snooping have helped keep the search engine’s numbers climbing up… Continue Reading
Community poetry site honors police officers killed and citizens killed by police
“Lament for the Dead is an online community poetry project which will mark the death of every person killed by police this summer, and every police officer who loses life in the line of duty, with a poem.” “The first lie that hate tells us is that any other person is not as human as… Continue Reading
New Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony Released
“Washington, D.C., July 15, 2015 – “The newly released grand jury testimony by Ethel Rosenberg’s brother David Greenglass suggests he committed perjury on the witness stand in the Rosenberg spy trial, according to experts who analyzed the documents released today and posted by the National Security Archive. The grand jury testimony from August 1950 shows… Continue Reading
2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook
CBO -“The long-term outlook for the federal budget has worsened dramatically over the past several years, in the wake of the 2007–2009 recession and slow recovery. Between 2008 and 2012, financial turmoil and a severe drop in economic activity, combined with various policies implemented in response to those conditions, sharply reduced federal revenues and increased… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Monetary Policy Report July 15 2015
Monetary Policy Report submitted to the Congress on July 15, 2015, pursuant to section 2B of the Federal Reserve Act “The overall condition of the labor market continued to strengthen over the first half of 2015, albeit at a more moderate pace than in 2014. So far this year, payroll employment has increased by about… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Beige Book – July 15 2015
Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and based on information collected before July 3, 2015. “This document summarizes comments received from businesses and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and is not a commentary on the views of Federal Reserve officials. All… Continue Reading
A National Policy Agenda for Libraries
American Library Association – NATIONAL POLICY AGENDA FOR LIBRARIES – The Policy Revolution! Initiative “INTRODUCTION TO THE AGENDA AND INITIATIVE – Libraries are in a digital revolution , fueled by rapid advances in technology. This digital revolution brings compelling opportunities to build upon what libraries already do well: empower and engage communities and contribute to… Continue Reading
Greece: An Update of IMF Staff’s Preliminary Public Debt Sustainability Analysis
IMF Country Report No. 15/186 – July 14, 2015 “Greece’s public debt has become highly unsustainable. This is due to the easing of policies during the last year, with the recent deterioration in the domestic macroeconomic and financial environment because of the closure of the banking system adding significantly to the adverse dynamics. The financing… Continue Reading
Report – choosing the right surgeon can prevent risk of medical errors
ProPublica investigative report, by Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce: “It’s conventional wisdom that there are “good” and “bad” hospitals — and that selecting a good one can protect patients from the kinds of medical errors that injure or kill hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. But a ProPublica analysis of Medicare data found that,… Continue Reading
