Do you remember which ones were your favorite books in school? Were there any? Kidding aside, were they the ones filled with facts? Was there a particular subject matter that interested you? What was it about it that grabbed - and retained - your attention? Was it the writing? Perhaps the visuals? N...

Children's services directors will be sent for compulsory training to make sure they understand the pressures of frontline social work following the death of Baby P it has been announced....

Implicit Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Much Ado About Nothing? Source: PENNumbra (University of Pennsylvania Law Review) The election of Barack Obama marks a significant milestone for race relations in our nation—on this much our debaters agree. The meaning of this milestone for th...

Via Reuters: One in every 11 minutes spent online globally is on networking sites. Between December 2007 and December 2008, the time spent on the sites climbed 63 percent to 45 billion minutes. . . . The biggest growth in Facebook membership comes from the 35-49 year old set. Facebook has added twic...

One of the first presentations on Wednesday at ETech 09. Luebkeman, from Arup, talking about “Urban Futures”. It was an interesting presentation, and he was a great talker but… I still don’t know what the point of the presentation was. It all felt like an introduction to some...

[You're reading http://BenMartinCAE.com. Actually, right now you're just reading the RSS post header.] This might come as some surprise to those who know me well, but it had to be done. Ever since December (and maybe longer), I’ve been having a really hard time keeping up with it all. You̵...

Quietly, without trumpets, fan fare, ticker tape parades or walks outside of the limo that give the secret service heart attacks, President Barack Obama has been changing the way the executive branch of the government does business online.  Not only that he's influencing the other branches, in part...

The Southern Voice reports: Actor Ashton Kutcher took to Twitter this afternoon to tweet his disgust at people who use “gay” and “fag” as insults. In typical Twitter style, where capitalization and punctuation are optional, Kutcher wrote: “can we just get clear, calling...

I have been asked this quite a few time over the last week or so which suggests people want to but don't know if they should.  Here are seven reasons why I think you should. 1. ROT (Return on Time) If as a recruiter you are doing your job well, you will be keeping touch with good quality c...

While I applaud the intent of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s effort to “grade” the 50 states in the U.S. on their mental health care, the problem with such reports is that they are out-of-date and virtually useless from the moment they are published. The problem with the...