Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults
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t r u t h o u t | Jon Stewart | Elizabeth Warren's Greatest Hits (video) - 0 views
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Elizabeth Warren on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as compiled by MoveOn.org
Perlstein's "Mendocracy" and Shock Doctrine Economics - 0 views
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Rick Perlstein wrote a fascinating article for The Daily Beast over the week-end about what he calls out "mendocracy" --- which means a society ruled by liars.
Twitter 101 - Case Study: The United States Geological Survey - 0 views
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One of the U.S. Geological Survey's unique responsibilities is the monitoring and reporting of earthquakes, which affect the daily lives of people around the world. By mining real-time tweets, the USGS expands its suite of seismically derived information and obtains first-hand accounts of shaking seconds after an earthquake occurs.
Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults - 0 views
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a study from the Pew Research Center
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Tweet counts have increased from 5,000 daily in 2007 to 90 million daily in 2010, while Facebook () went from 30 million users in 2007 to more than 500 million users today
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Some stats about SNS sites
Israel: Street power | The Economist - 0 views
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AFTER months of speculation over whether the Arab spring would spread to the Palestinians, it has spread, in a way, to the Israelis. Rothschild Boulevard, a pleasant, leafy thoroughfare that meanders through Tel Aviv, with offices and commodious flats on either side, has oddly become a colourful encampment, seething with talk of people-power and social revolution. The tent-dwellers, a mixed bunch but with a preponderance of young, educated, middle-class families, are demanding-above all-affordable housing. Their protest, now into its third week, has sparked sleep-outs and demonstrations around the country. The movement seems to be growing daily, despite the torrid summer heat.
Daily Kos: Over 150,000 Protesters Take to the Streets in Israel as Pressure on Netanya... - 0 views
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Over 100,000 protesters swarmed the streets of 11 cities across the country, dancing to performances by some of Israel's most popular musicians and screaming angry slogans at PM Binyamin Netanyahu. The protests, which began as a response to the country's housing crisis, and have since spread to a host of social and economic complaints, are posing the greatest threat to Netanyahu's rule as he grapples, unsuccessfully, to quell the growing discontent.
Modern Slavery Includes Forced Labor in U.S. Military Contracting - The Daily Beast - 0 views
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Modern human slavery isn't just about sex trafficking-up to 27 million people are forced into labor in the global economy, from tomatoes to electronics to American military contracting in places like Iraq. Michelle Goldberg on our underreported slave trade.
Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone? « Gur... - 2 views
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Efforts to extend access to “data” will perhaps inevitably create a “data divide” parallel to the oft-discussed “digital divide” between those who have access to data which could have significance in their daily lives and those who don’t.
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What is necessary as well, is that those for whom access is being provided are in a position to actually make use of the now available access
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open data” empowers those with access to the basic infrastructure and the background knowledge and skills to make use of the data for specific ends.
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It's time for a new version of government - Fortune Tech - 0 views
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Create a management framework that accepts and rewards internal entrepreneurs.
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Government 2.0 is a citizen-centric philosophy and strategy that believes the best results are usually driven by partnerships between citizens and government, at all levels. It is focused entirely on achieving goals through increased efficiency, better management, information transparency, and citizen engagement and most often leverages newer technologies to achieve the desired outcomes.
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Government employees are traditionally risk-averse, a good thing when the pace of change is relatively slow. However, in today's fast-paced world the pace of government change, the pace of government execution is often too slow.
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Obama's Tax Cut: How Rush Limbaugh Misled the Country - The Daily Beast - 0 views
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President Obama lowered taxes. Why doesn't the country know that? Rick Perlstein on how Rush Limbaugh helped mislead a nation-and why the Democrats let him get away with it.We live in a mendocracy.As in: rule by liars.Political scientists are going crazy crunching the numbers to uncover the skeleton key to understanding the Republican victory last Tuesday.
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