New Report: Protecting Commercial Aviation Against the Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Identity Theft--Surveys
Source: Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc.
Just Released, 2005 Identity Fraud Survey Report
"This report provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of identity fraud in the United States, in order to better understand methods for prevention, detection and resolution. Co-released by Javelin Strategy & Research and the Better Business Bureau, this report is issued as a longitudinal update to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) 2003 Identity Theft Survey Report. The phone-based survey methods used as the basis for the 2003 and 2005 reports were nearly identical, while additional research areas were made realizable through the addition of a control group."
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Intellectual Property--Canada
Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office
New Resource, IP Toolkit
-- Intellectual Property--United States
Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO Releases FY 2004 Performance and Accountability Report
"In fiscal year 2004, the Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted 187,170 patents, including 169,296 utility (inventions), 16,533 design, and 998 plant patents as reported in its fiscal year 2004 Performance and Accountability Report released today. Since 1790, over seven million U.S. patents have been granted. U.S. resident inventors received 97,913 U.S. patents in fiscal year 2004. California resident inventors received the highest share (23 percent, 22,389 patents) of these patents, followed by inventors from New York (7 percent, 6,788 patents), Texas (7 percent, 6,424 patents), Michigan (4 percent, 4,260 patents), and Massachusetts (4 percent, 4,109 patents)." Summary StatisticsDirect to Full Text
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Documents in the News Airliner Anti-Missle Systems
Source: RAND Corporation Protecting Commercial Aviation Against the Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat
"Examines the capabilities and costs of onboard technologies to divert missiles attacking commercial airliners. Given the significant uncertainties in the cost and effectiveness of countermeasures, a decision to install them should be postponed, and concurrent development efforts to reduce these uncertainties should proceed as rapidly as possible." Summary (PDF; 0.2 MB) Full Document (PDF; 0.7 MB)
-- United States--Forecasts
Source: Federal Research Division/Library of Congress Domestic Trends To The Year 2015: Forecasts For The United States
This 261-page report published in 1991 was just made available on the FRD web site. Topics include:
+ Demography
+ The Economy
+ Resources
+ Education
+ Society
+ Technology
+ Military Science
+ Geopolitics and Threat
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September 11th--Archives
Source: AP
Library of Congress puts record of Sept. 11 attacks online
A lengthy account of the Sept. 11 attacks has been put online by the Library of Congress in the form of nearly 170 audio and video interviews, totaling 40 hours, with photos, drawings, written narratives, and poems.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
