Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
HIV/AIDS
Source: CDC/MMWR
New Stats, New HIV Diagnoses, 33 States, 2001-2004
"In the 33 states that conducted confidential, name-based reporting between 2001-2004, a total of 157,252 people were diagnosed with HIV. For the first time ever, this national total includes data from New York State, thus providing a more representative picture of the U.S. epidemic." Direct to detailed summary.
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Real Estate--Closing Costs--Lists & Rankings
Source: BankRate.com Mortgage closing costs: State rankings
"Bankrate.com researchers gathered closing-cost information from 50 states and the District of Columbia. Below, ranked from most-expensive to least-expensive, are the average total closing costs charged for a mortgage, in each state. (Editor's note: Closing cost total does not include taxes, other governmental fees or escrow fees.)"
See: Study reveals closing cost differences
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Internet Filtering--Tunisia
Source: OpenNet Initiative
New Report, Internet Filtering in Tunisia in 2005
"The Tunisian Republic implements an Internet filtering regime that aggressively targets and blocks substantial on-line material on political opposition, human rights, methods of bypassing filtering, and pornography."
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Las Vegas--Online Exhibition
Source: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries Before Gaming . . . Celebrating Las Vegas' Centennial, 1905-2005
"Before Gaming. Before Hotels. Before the tourists came. Where Indians, explorers, settlers, and ranchers wandered, set down, picked up, and mostly moved on. Until the San Pedro, Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railroad stopped for water. Then Las Vegas was a small railroad depot-with-a-town in the desert. The earliest images of Las Vegas are from the private collections of the families who were here in 1905 or who arrived soon after: Helen Stewart, Walter Bracken, William Ferron, Ed Von Tobel, Fred and Maurine Wilson."
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? 
