Via LLRX.com – Yes, Dragon NaturallySpeaking has been worth the trouble for faster writing – David H. Rothman writes about the multiple uses of voice recognition software from the perspective of an expert writer, speaker and typist. Rothman also advises readers on the requisite microphone and boom to enhance the use of voice recognition technology. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2016
GAO creates New Center for Enhanced Analytics
Via WatchBlog: ” Our new Center for Enhanced Analytics has 4 primary goals: enhance access to data sources assess, customize, and help deploy new technologies promote novel analytic approaches strengthen analytical skills All of these goals are focused on making sure we have the data and analytics we need to support our work.” Continue Reading
IMF World Economic Outlook 2016
“IMF Sees Subdued Global Growth, Warns Economic Stagnation Could Fuel Protectionist Calls. October 4, 2016. Global growth subpar at 3.1 percent in 2016, with slight increase to 3.4 percent next year Persistent stagnation in advanced economies could further fuel anti-trade sentiment, stifling growth Countries need to rely on all policy levers—monetary, fiscal and structural—to lift… Continue Reading
Report – Nearly 385 million children living in extreme poverty
World Bank – “Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis from the World Bank Group and UNICEF. Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children finds that in 2013 19.5 per cent of children in developing countries were living in households that survived on… Continue Reading
Pew – Support for death penalty lowest in more than four decades
“As the Supreme Court prepares to hear the first of two death penalty cases in this year’s term, the share of Americans who support the death penalty for people convicted of murder is now at its lowest point in more than four decades. Only about half of Americans (49%) now favor the death penalty for people… Continue Reading
Pew – The Politics of Climate
“Political fissures on climate issues extend far beyond beliefs about whether climate change is occurring and whether humans are playing a role, according to a new, in-depth survey by Pew Research Center. These divisions reach across every dimension of the climate debate, down to people’s basic trust in the motivations that drive climate scientists to… Continue Reading
Report – Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of emails for gov surveillance
UK Guardian: “Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials, sources have told Reuters. The company complied with a classified US government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security… Continue Reading
Agencies Post Public Sections of “Targeted Submissions” for Eight Firms
“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Tuesday posted the public portions of the required “targeted submissions” for the eight systemically important, domestic banking institutions. To foster transparency, the agencies required all of the firms to file a public portion of their targeted submissions. In April of this year, the… Continue Reading
IG – Major Management Challenges for the Fed Board and the CFPB
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent and objective oversight authority established under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended: “Though not statutorily required, the OIG compiles annual listings of major management challenges facing… Continue Reading
Presentation – Introducing RDFa with schema.org
Introducing RDFa with schema.org – LODLAM Toronto 2016 Dan Scott /+Dan Scott Systems Librarian, Laurentian University. Continue Reading
OCLC and Internet Archive work together to ensure future sustainability of Persistent URLs
News release: “OCLC and Internet Archive today announced the results of a year-long cooperative effort to ensure the future sustainability of purl.org. The organizations have worked together to build a new sustainable service hosted by Internet Archive that will manage persistent URLs and sub-domain redirections for purl.org, purl.com, purl.info and purl.net. Since its introduction by… Continue Reading
American Academy of Appellate Lawyers – length of briefs pared down
Judges Push Brevity in Briefs, and Get a Torrent of Arguments – “The Constitution of the United States clocks in at 4,543 words. Yet a number of lawyers contend that 14,000 words are barely enough to lay out their legal arguments. That’s the maximum word count for briefs filed in federal appellate courts. For years,… Continue Reading
