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The NSF, a major source of Computer Science research funding, is one of the affected agencies.
The National Science Foundation, which supports basic research at universities, had expected a $400 million increase over the $5.7 billion budget it received in 2006. Now, the freeze is prompting program cuts, delays and slowdowns. ¡°It¡¯s rather devastating,¡± said Jeff Nesbit, the foundation¡¯s head of legislative and public affairs. ¡°While $400 million in the grand scheme of things might seem like decimal dust, it¡¯s hugely important for universities that rely on N.S.F. funding.¡±
It looks like some ¡°big science¡± projects will suffer the most including ¡°a $50 million plan to build a supercomputer that universities would use to push back frontiers in science and engineering¡±. But all of NSF will be affected and it¡¯s easy to imagine that all of the NSF programs will tighten up a bit.
Congress passed just two out of eleven major spending bills last year - for military and domestic security. The rest were frozen at 2006 levels, an effective 4% reduction. The current Democratic-led congress has announced plans to extend the continuing resolution through the end of the 2007 fiscal year.
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Pew on Social Network Usage January 7th, 2007, by Pranam Kolari, posted in Web Technology, Technology Impact, Blogging, Web 2.0 societ, social media
Pew Internet just released a survey on social network usage among American teens. While confirming the known, (i) MySpace is the most visited site (ii) girls are more active than boys, the report goes on to say that ¡°74% of respondents post comments on friend¡¯s blog¡±. I would have loved to see numbers on ¡°x% of respondents have created or plan to create blog posts¡±.
MySpace has been a major contributor to the growth of blogs recently, and now forms a major chunk of a blog search result. The last we checked MySpace blogs were contributing 15% to 20% of all pings to weblogs.com, with numbers rising by the day.
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US State Department turns to Google for intelligence December 11th, 2006, by Tim Finin, posted in Web society, Google
Today¡¯s Washington post has an intriguing story revealing how the US State Department turned to Google to identify bad actors in Iran.
¡°When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused, citing a large workload and a desire to protect its sources and tradecraft. Frustrated, the State Department assigned a junior Foreign Service officer to find the names another way - by using Google. Those with the most hits under search terms such as ¡°Iran and nuclear,¡± three officials said, became targets for international rebuke Friday when a sanctions resolution circulated at the United Nations.¡±
What does this amazing story mean? (It gets more amazing as you read the rest, btw.) Is it about infighting between State and CIA? Or the rise of importance of the Web? Or the predilection of the young to turn to Google for answers? Or the fact that The Google has become our collective giant brain? I¡¯ll take all four, if you please.
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