i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

 In a blog post about the birth of the img tag in HTML, Mark Pilgrim reiterates the point made by Tim Bray about new languages and their evolution.  (emphasis mine) - 

It looks like structured product labeling hasn't been enough to make the prescription labeling process a smooth system.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/business/11unboxed.html

This article describes a study conducted with 26 first grade students (6 with disabilities) to determine if using story grammar would increase their reading comprehension. Not surprisingly, conveying the same information using story grammar rather than just a reading lesson helped all the students, both with and without disabilities, derive meaning from the entire story instead of just focusing on a few minor details of the lesson. 

A recent report by the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that the sole central database for Medicaid claims and eligibility information is riddled with problems. The database, operated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is incomplete, out of date, and less accurate than claimed.

 The Pentagon is using a variety of tactics to recruit kids/ young adults aged 16 to 25  to the army. They are currently spending $24,000 per recruit who enlists, compared to $2,000 which is the amount an average four year college spends! In order to understand this demographic of young recruits the Pentagon is using a No Child Left Behind funding clause to have information about students such as their GPA and where they are thinking of heading to college and telephone number sent straight to recruiters.

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