Lunchtime listen: Jody DeRidder and the human side of digital preservation
I was disappointed that I wasn’t able to go to this year’s Best Practices Exchange conference — one of the best conferences for government information librarians, archivists and digital preservationists to share ideas and brainstorm about what works and what doesn’t! — so was glad that Kevin Driedger of the Preservation Imperative podcast posted his […]
Visiting Assistant Professor Uses Public Data to Transform How New Yorkers See Their City
Ben Wellington uses his popular I Quant NY blog to dig into public New York city data posted by city agencies. He digs deep into the the data to post about the city’s filthiest fast-food chains, mapped out how half of Manhattan is within four blocks of a Starbucks and determined which neighborhoods boast the […]
Portland Newspaper Uses Census Data for Searchable Map
The Oregonian has collected some high-level data points for census tracts in the Portland metro area and used them to create an interactive searchable map of Portland. Census tracts boundaries are drawn to create areas with a population generally between 1,200 and 8,000, with a target of 4,000. Who lives in your Portland neighborhood? New […]
Usage-Based Pricing of Internet Service
Document of the Day U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2014. FCC Should Track the Application of Fixed Internet Usage-Based Pricing and Help Improve Consumer Education. Mark Goldstein, GAO–15–108: Published: Nov 24, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 2, 2014. GAO found that mobile providers employ usage-based pricing (UBP) more commonly than fixed. Under UBP, providers can charge varying […]
Inspectors General Reports
One of the sources Daniel Schuman includes in his list of tools for Congressional Information deserves special mention. Oversight.io | Bringing into sight the US government’s oversight community Most every piece of the US federal government has an office called the Inspector General (IG). An IG’s job is to keep their part of the government […]