Just for fun–a great way to make some really sharp Tag Clouds–here’s one with the words from this blog:

Do your own at Wordle:

I’ve been wondering why I haven’t been able to get anyone from Dialog to do an interview on “the future of Dialog”…it’s being acquired by ProQuest!

That’s big news in the info industry: see the press release from ProQuest here.

Okay, so this has nothing to do with business research, but as someone who has spent decades (OK, so I turned 50 last week!) studying information, and how people use and analyze information, this finding by Pew has really got me stumped. I’d love to get some comments by people who have a theory as to why this is so–here it is:

This recent Pew Study, sadly, but not surprisingly, shows that Republicans are much less inclined to view global warming as a serious problem than Democrats.

What is baffling to me, though, (other than the fact that a public safety/scientific data issue like global warming is still seen as a political issue in the U.S.), is that the survey shows that :

“…for Republicans, unlike Democrats, higher education is associated with GREATER [caps added] skepticism that human activity is causing global warming. Only 19% of Republican college graduates say that there is solid evidence that the earth is warming and it is caused by human activity,while 31% of Republicans with less education say the same.”

How to explain this? Speculations, theories?

I find this really confounding….

You may have heard of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the U.S. federal office activated in 2005 to be the new head agency in charge of national intelligence. But perhaps you did not know that the agency holds conferences on open source intelligence–which has become more of a priority since 9/11–and that many of the presentations given at the conferences are free and available on the Web.

The most recent event, held this past July, called “Expanding the Horizons” has made many of the presentations available on the Web, which you can browse here .

Among the topics of interest to business research professionals are: Managing the Information Tsunami; Libraries of the Future; Regional Focus Intelligence; Open Source on the Web, and many others.