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CIA Rebuttal to Senate Torture Report
A new, commercially-published book provides official responses from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to 2014 Senate Torture Report. REBUTTAL: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program, Bill Harlow, Editor, U.S. Naval Institute. Sep 2015. 418 pp. Introduction and essays © 2015 Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Contents: […]
Using Government Data to Create A Statistical Portrait of Government Student Loans
An interesting paper that uses government administrative data to analyze student loans. A crisis in student loans? How changes in the characteristics of borrowers and in the institutions they attended contributed to rising loan defaults, by Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. BPEA Conference Draft, September, 2015. This paper examines the […]
Harmonizing libraries and e-government by combining services and collections
To me, it is odd, or at least ironic, that the library government information community has been studying and debating the same issues about the digital future of the FDLP for almost 20 years, without any clear resolution. I was reminded of this today when I got a request for a copy of a very […]
50 years ago Ted Nelson introduced the word “hypertext”
Byron Reese interviews Ted Nelson about his presentation at the ACM 50 years ago and the introduction of the word “hypertext.” 50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced by Byron Reese, GigaOm (Aug. 24, 2015 – 1:59 AM PDT). On August 24, 1965 Ted Nelson used the word “hypertext” (which he coined) in […]
Open Access Book about Ted Nelson
Available as a free download in PDF and ePub formats: Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson Editors: Douglas R. Dechow, Daniele C. Struppa ISBN: 978-3-319-16924-8 (Print) 978-3-319-16925-5 (Online). Among the contributors: Christine L. Borgman, Douglas R. Dechow, Brewster Kahle, Alan Kay, and Ted Nelson! From the introduction: On April 24, 2014, Chapman University […]
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