• Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, September 9, 2009
• Strategies for Working with Congress: Effective Communication and Advocacy on Capitol Hill, September 11, 2009
• How to Find, Track, and Monitor Congressional Documents: Going Beyond Thomas, September 15, 2009
• Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, September 16, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, September 17, 2009
• Capitol Hill Workshop, September 23-25, 2009
• Open Science And Closed Science: Aren’t Papers Supposed To Be A Part Of The Conversation? – “It’s no secret that we’ve got some serious problems with the way the old school scientific journals work — basically locking up scientific research rather than really living up to their mandate to spread scientific knowledge. Stephen alerts us to a separate issue with traditional journal publications: how they handle the followup discussion.”

• Answers to Common Excuses not to Travel Full-Time – “Oftentimes when folks hear what we’re up to — we get the response of ‘You’re living my dream!’. To which we of course reply ‘Then why aren’t you doing it too?’. We are in process of compiling our responses to the common excuses that folks give us to that question, some very valid. We aim to share examples of others overcoming the challenges, our own stories and share resources to assist. This will be a growing series,”
• Carrier Wars: T-Mobile results, wrap up – “Let’s take a quick look at everything lined up nice and pretty:

  Average Download Speed

  1. Sprint: 1361kbs
  2. AT&T: 933kbps
  3. T-Mobile: 786kbps
  4. Verizon: 701kbps

  Average Upload Speed

  1. Verizon: 322kbps
  2. Sprint: 267kbps
  3. AT&T: 180kbps
  4. T-Mobile: 177kbps

  There you have it folks– the final act of Carrier Wars is officially a wrap. While these numbers shouldn’t be considered absolute or scientific, they certainly give an accurate representation of each carrier’s 3G network speeds as experienced by our readers.”

• The Small Business Guide to Wikis – “Streamlined communication, collaboration, and information sharing are all vital aspects to building a successful small business. You need to build ideas as a team, record past successes and failures, and have your employees keeping each other informed on their current work so your company can avoid overlap.”

• *Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate* – “it is the best applied book on signaling theory to date.”
• Future trucks: Cleaning up the kings of the road – “While the average fuel efficiency of the US car fleet has almost doubled in the last 40 years, today’s heavy trucks guzzle the same amount of fuel – roughly 30 litres per 100 kilometres – as they did in 1969.”