A bit slow too load, but in the “Comparative View” you can visualize and map the indicators that measure progress toward the UN Millennium Development Goals with clear explanations of each Goal and its related Targets as the context. Neat tool to play with while the MDG Summit enters its last day, today.
To what extent can we say this differs from state censorship of search engines results and the media in China? What about encouraging public debate rather than reinforcing stale, potentially harmful, discussion? Is this acceptable considering the site creators are private actors practicing “selective inclusion,” rather than the state?
Portion of an On the Media episode about how numbers and statistics are reported or misreported (whether under or over) by the media : “Sex, Drugs and Body Counts.” Another episode to listen to in tandem is “Prime Numbers,” focused on the use of “nice sounding” figures, regardless of accuracy, in the mediasphere.
Librarians as informationists and embedded-liaisons: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/09/hopkins.
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” … we’ll keep clinging to our Constitution and our guns and religion – and you can keep the change.”
Author Marc Aronson talks about the iPad, e-books, and copyright dysfunction and looks at the needs of non-fiction writers and publishers in the face of current copyright law and permission economics.
