Word of the release of an exciting new project from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Thomson Reuters. From the Berkman Center Site: Researching the nature of news, and media information flows, has always faced a difficult challenge: there is so much produced by so many outlets that...

From the Article: We have more than 25,000 digital photographs stored on our computer hard drives–most of them of people. Until now, our sole means of tracking down a familiar face was to search manually: by date, EXIF data, “tags,” or the brute force of our own memory. Now compute...

Resource of the Week — Congressional Resources from the RAND Corporation By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor The RAND Corporation is a think tank that also functions as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). it is one of our favorite fishing holes for reports to post on DocuTi...

Resources of the Week: Due Diligence By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor In our travels around the business web, we happened across a selection of papers about due diligence from the global consulting firm Deloitte LLP (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu). We know this is a topic of interest to a subset of our re...

Clearwater considers closing some libraries Council members spent three hours Thursday discussing various programs and city jobs that they could trim. But after two hours, they hadn’t agreed on many cuts. … “We haven’t cut anything, hardly,” Hibbard said. That’s w...

From the News Release: “The Citizen Journalist’s Guide to Open Government,” an extensive multimedia e-learning module to help new media makers understand how to obtain public records and get into public meetings, launched today on the Knight Citizen News Network (www.kcnn.org). The gui...

Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past. Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Oba...

From the Article: Boxee gives users a single interface to access all the photos, video and music on their hard drives, along with a wide range of television shows, movies and songs from sites like Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, CNN.com and CBS.com. Unlike the increasingly long and convoluted channel direct...

From the Abstract: Social bookmarking tools are very popular nowadays. In most tools, users tag the bookmarks to describe them. Therefore, it is of- ten hard for users to discover implicit structures between tags, users and bookmarks. We think that this is essential for both end users to discover ne...

Sections of Paula’s review article include: + Ongoing Legislative Issues + Important Trends of 2008 The review begins with the following passage: The recession dominates our thoughts, of course … It’s hard not to be discouraged when we see the belt-tightening going on across all sectors in...