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Acting General Counsel releases report on social media cases The National Labor Relations Board’s Acting General Counsel today released a report detailing the outcome of investigations into 14 cases involving the use of social media and employers’ social and general media policies. In releasing the document, Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon said, “I hope that […]
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Weather.gov Design Refresh The National Weather Service is proposing a design refresh of the NWS website http://www.weather.gov. The proposed design was developed based on: Ongoing web survey for Weather.gov Ongoing user feedback Search query analysis Survey of NWS local offices Usability testing Best practices The proposed design refresh is the beginning of a phased effort […]
Geographic Databases for 2011 Released The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, released the 2011 edition of the National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) this week. The 2011 edition features updated datasets from last year’s NTAD and premieres the Customs and Border Protection’s Border […]
Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL), 2011 From Overview: The first edition of the Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL) (ABS Cat. No. 1267.0) was published in 1997 to meet a statistical and administrative need for a classification of languages. It was designed for use in the collection, aggregation and dissemination of data relating to […]
U.S. Higher Education Glossary What’s the difference between a college and a university? Who are undergraduate students versus graduate students? What’s the FAFSA? Studying in the United States can be confusing if you don’t fully understand the words used in U.S. higher education. With that in mind, U.S. News has compiled a glossary of important […]
Half of Young Children in the U.S. are Read to at Least Once a Day, Census Bureau Reports Many young children are getting a head start on acquiring the skills needed to read, as family members take time out of their day on a regular basis to read aloud with them, the U.S. Census Bureau […]
European citizens making more requests for Commission documents than ever before Europe’s citizens are showing an ever greater interest in Commission activities, over a growing number of policy areas. That’s the conclusion of the latest annual report on public access to documents, which shows an 18% increase in the number of requests for documents in […]
New Anti-Censorship Scheme Could Make It Impossible to Block Individual Sites A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites. The system is called Telex, and it is the brainchild of computer science researchers […]
Federal Agencies Take Action to Digitally Document Nearly 50 Endangered Languages The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the award of 10 fellowships and 24 institutional grants totaling $3.9 million in the agencies’ ongoing Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program. This is the seventh round of their campaign […]
