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OpenCongress brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill.
Seems like an interesting experiment in increasing transparency.
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Demise of the Foreign Correspondent - washingtonpost.com
Demise of the Foreign Correspondent – washingtonpost.com
Today, Americans’ need to understand the struggles of distant peoples is greater than ever. Our troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, countries that we did not know enough about when we invaded them and that we are still trying to fathom. We have been victimized by foreign terrorists, [...]
Iraq casualties for dummies - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
Iraq casualties for dummies – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics
A good set of representations of casualties. Sometimes, being able to communicate information clearly and concisely is high art.
U.S. senator: It’s time to ban Wikipedia in schools, libraries - Computerworld Blogs
U.S. senator: It’s time to ban Wikipedia in schools, libraries – Computerworld Blogs
Here’s the newest from Sen. Ted Stevens, the man who described the Internet as a series of tubes: It’s time for the federal government to ban access to Wikipedia, MySpace, and social networking sites from schools and libraries.Early in January, Stevens introduced [...]
The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Anti-Evolution Standards Are Overturned by School Board in Kansas
The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Anti-Evolution Standards Are Overturned by School Board in Kansas
Can you guys please make up your mind?
techPresident – How the candidates are using the web, and how the web is using them.
techPresident – How the candidates are using the web, and how the web is using them.
Compared to four years ago, when an email message from one campaign’s then-obscure blogger (Mathew Gross, whose now with John Edwards) to an online community (SmirkingChimp.com) creating an “Ask the Dean Campaign” amazed and delighted grass-roots activists, today you [...]
WIRED Blogs: Cult of Mac
WIRED Blogs: Cult of Mac
If eMusic can sell these tunes without copyright protection, why can’t Apple?Which raises the question, why does Jobs – who is more reticent than Vladimir Putin after a giant bong hit – suddenly want to talk about copyright issues? The only time Jobs emerges from his bunker is when there’s [...]
Media-Newswire.com - Press Release Distribution - PR Agency
Media-Newswire.com – Press Release Distribution – PR Agency
Washington — Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman said the United States embraces the findings of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ). “We agree with it, and the science behind it is something that our country has played a very important role in,” he [...]
Newseum | Todays Front Pages | Gallery View
Newseum | Todays Front Pages | Gallery View
a look at the front page of today’s newspapers around the world. A great way to keep track of news…
Some book statistics
Some book statistics:
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five [...]
