List: America's Largest Private Companies 2005; USPTO Receives Record Number of Patent and Trademark Applications for 2005
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Information Policy--United States--Glossary
Source: Federation of American Scientists (Maret) (via DocuTicker.com) On Their Own Terms: A Lexicon with an Emphasis on Information-Related Terms Produced by the U.S. Federal Government (PDF; 1.3 MB)
From Secrecy News: "The very words by which official secrecy policy is formulated and carried out are often obscure to the outsider. They embody a latent knowledge of statute and regulation, policy and practice that cannot be inferred from the words themselves. An excellent new publication helps "the outsider,' i.e., the ordinary citizen of the United States, to comprehend the vocabulary of government information policy, and to discover its genealogical roots in official documents. From 'access' and 'accountability' to 'Yankee White' and 'Xn,' author Susan Maret, an adjunct professor of library science at the University of Denver, provides a concise definition of terms as well as links to official sources."
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Computer Security
Source: SANS Institute
Just Released, The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated) - The Experts Consensus
Includes the SANS Top-20 2005.
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Business--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes
Recently Released, America's Largest Private Companies 2005
Sort list by: Rank | Name | State | Industry | Revenues | Employees
"Though less visible than their publicly traded counterparts, private companies have plenty of clout in the U.S. economy. This year the 339 companies on our roster of closely held businesses sold a trillion dollars' worth of goods and services and employed 4 million people."
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Patents--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: USPTO USPTO Receives Record Number of Patent and Trademark Applications for 2005
"In fiscal year 2005, the Department of Commerce?s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) received a record number of patent and trademark applications. The agency received 406,302 patent applications, and 323,501 applications for trademark registration as reported in its fiscal year 2005 Performance and Accountability Report released last week...he USPTO granted 165,485 patents, including 151,079 utility (inventions), 13,395 design, and 816 plant patents. Since 1790, over seven million U.S. patents have been granted. U.S. resident inventors received 85,238 U.S. patents in fiscal year 2005. California resident inventors received the highest share (23 percent, 19,928 patents) of these patents, followed by inventors from New York (7 percent, 5,631 patents), Texas (7 percent, 5,660 patents), Michigan (5 percent, 3,907 patents), and Massachusetts (4 percent, 3,443 patents)." Direct link to annual report with more stats.
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English as a Second Language--Resources
Source: Merriam Webster
New, LearnersDictionary.com
"Announcing Merriam-Webster's LearnersDictionary.com, a new Web site especially designed for adult and teenage non-English speakers. Along with great interactive language exercises with audio, the site offers Merriam-Webster's Learner's Word of the Day?a free service featuring easy-to-understand meanings with a focus on the practice and presentation of pronunciation"
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? 
