It has human drama — a young soldier, accused of transferring state secrets to WikiLeaks and harshly imprisoned since the spring of 2010, speaking publicly about his case for the first time since his arrest — and it goes to the heart of contentious media issues in which The New York Times has played an important role, publishing much information revealed through Private Manning's act.
It requires institutional investors to publish much more information about how they vote on issues at the companies in which they are invested – and to give more detail on how they discharge the rest of their responsibilities as owners of these businesses.
I've found these people trust me for one simple reason: I do not release or publish much of the information that I obtain.
"There were huge variations in the levels of transparency on this data from PCC to PCC," says Ed. "Some of them were helpful; but the vast majority had labyrinthine websites, many had failed to publish much of the information they were required to under statute and press officers were sometimes difficult to get hold of.
The story pointed out that we declined to publish much of the most sensational information – an editorial decision that was informed by the Defence Advisory Notice system, a voluntary code which is run by the Government.
The commission also announced that it will pull back part of the veil on the oil and gas markets, publishing much more detailed information about the aggregate activity of hedge funds and tapping into new information about traders who swap energy contracts outside of traditional exchanges.
"Our goal is to publish as much information for readers as possible, redacted or not, and we intend to keep pursuing that goal," Mr. Bryant said.
His reply: a "really good" electronic version, with interactive features to recipes, animations for key techniques, and video clips, would be a project "bigger than the one to do this book". A book is still the best way to publish so much information, and the spiral-bound supplement, unlike an iPad, is waterproof.
October 2000 Peter Lyman and Hal R. Varian at UC Berkeley publish "How Much Information?" It is the first comprehensive study to quantify, in computer storage terms, the total amount of new and original information (not counting copies) created in the world annually and stored in four physical media: paper, film, optical (CDs and DVDs), and magnetic.
