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...

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...

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...

From an e-mail alert: The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive source of government-funded scientific, technical, engineering and business-related information. For more than 60 years, NTIS has served as an innovative resource to Federal a...

MIT Creates Version of Its Web Site for Smartphones (and Plans to Share Code) Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who want to use their iPhones to look at course syllabi or check the campus-shuttle schedule can now surf to a version of the MIT Web site designed especially for cellp...

From the announcement: New Orleans, hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was the fastest-growing large city in the nation between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007. This follows the city having the largest rate of population loss since 2000. Houston, another city near the Gulf Coast, led the nationâ€...

Posted 27 June 2008 on DocuTicker: + Americans’ Access to Medical Care Deteriorates Between 2003 and 2007 (Center for Studying Health System Change) + Cigarette Use Among High School Students — United States, 1991–2007 (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) + First Hard Numbers on Obama Tax P...

+ A Journalist’s Guide to the Federal Courts (U.S. Courts) + Center for Gaming Research: Media Guide (University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries) + GLAAD Media Reference Guide, 7th Edition (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) See Also: Compilation #1...

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