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News release, includes a data chart: "The rate at which people file insurance claims for theft is highest for versions of the 2007-09 Cadillac Escalade, a luxury SUV, followed by the Ford F-250 crew pickup, Infiniti G37 luxury car, and...
Follow up to Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act - HR 11-517 and Senate passage of the bill by a 60-39 vote on July 15, 2010, via WSJ: "Buried in the bill's 800-odd pages are the most sweeping...
Follow up to previous postings on high speed rail in America, this news release: "President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden...[announced] that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is awarding $8 billion to states across the country to develop...
"The National Security Strategy, released May 27, 2010, lays out a strategic approach for advancing American interests, including the security of the American people, a growing U.S. economy, support for our values, and an international order that can address 21st...
In his letter to bi-partisan Congressional leadership President Obama highlights "the devastating economic impact of budget cuts at the state and local levels that are leading to massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters." Je goes on to request support...
Subsidized Jobs: Helping Americans Get Back To Work - "Because the Recovery Act is a temporary stimulus designed to boost job creation through a period of great labor market distress, programs in the Act sunset according to a preset schedule....
National Security Strategy, May 2010 "The two decades since the end of the Cold War have been marked by both the promise and perils of change. The circle of peaceful democracies has expanded; the specter of nuclear war has lifted;...
White House - Surface Transportation Security Assessment, March 2010 "Securing the Nation’s surface transportation network requires a coordinated effort among all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, communities, and individual citizens. While much has been accomplished to date...
News release: "Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin implementing new enhanced security measures for all air carriers with international flights to the United States to strengthen the safety...
FOIA Post: "On March 16, 2010, during Sunshine Week, the White House issued both a Presidential Statement and a Memorandum on the FOIA. First, President Obama issued a statement on the FOIA. In his Statement, the President applauded the work...
Teens and the Internet: The Future of Digital Diversity, Kristen Purcell, Ph.D. Associate Director, Pew Internet Project, Fred Forward Conference, March 23, 2010....
Growing America’s Fuel An Innovation Approach to Achieving the President’s Biofuels Target. Vision: "New jobs and greater economic vitality in rural America, increased energy independence, reduced economic vulnerability to volatile oil prices and uncertain supplies, technological and industrial leadership in...
Report: Social Networking in Government: Opportunities & Challenges, Human Capital Institute, January 2010 "Social networking (SN) has become the new online rage. Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn have provided creative ways to...
News release: "Several changes have been made to THOMAS for the second session of the 111th Congress. These changes include: Bookmarking and Sharing Widget; Top Five Bills; New RSS feed: Bills Presented to the President; Contacting Members of Congress; Tip...
"Fully one-third of the 110 Am Law 200 firms participating in our fourteenth annual survey of technology directors reported that their capital budgets were down more than 10 percent this year. Staffing levels and salaries have taken hits, and equipment...
FedThread "gives you: collaborative annotation: Attach a note to any paragraph of the Federal Register; start a conversation. advanced search: Search the Federal Register (back to 2000) on full text, by date, agency, and other fields. customized feeds: Turn any...
FBI news release: "The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that uncovered a sophisticated “phishing” operation that fraudulently collected personal information...
HHS OIG Audit Report: State and Local Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Medical Surge, September 2009: "An influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of a highly infectious influenza virus that can cause serious illness in humans. The Department of Health and Human...
Time: "Think military and you think macho, not meditation, but that's about to change now that the Army intends to train its 1.1 million soldiers in the art of mental toughness. The Defense Department hopes that giving soldiers tools to...
American Medical News staff. Posted Aug. 17, 2009: "The latest health plan ratings by Consumer Reports shows PPO members less satisfied than those who belong to HMOs, primarily because of poor scores for PPOs' customer service and billing practices. Overall,...
DoD Web 2.0 Guidance Forum - Value of Web 2.0 Capabilities: "In examining how the Department of Defense should take maximal advantage of Web 2.0 capabilities (including social networking services, social media, wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc.), we are looking...
Final Report of Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.2 (Best practice approaches for characterizing, communicating, and incorporating scientific uncertainty in decisionmaking) is posted. See also press release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (posted 16 Jan 2009) Final Report...
American Lawyer: "Mortgage-related lawsuits are on the rise, with homeowners and investors alike suing over allegedly being duped by the mortgage industry. According to a litigation report from MortgageDaily.com, an online mortgage news analyst, the number of mortgage-related lawsuits filed...
"GovFresh is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more, all in one place." See also White House Website Adds Links to FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace...
"The Congressional Record Daily Digest is now available as the first RSS feed from THOMAS. The Daily Digest from THOMAS is one of five RSS feeds available from the Law Library of Congress as described on our RSS Feeds and...
News release: "Three front-to-front crash tests, each involving a microcar or minicar into a midsize model from the same manufacturer, show how extra vehicle size and weight enhance occupant protection in collisions. These Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tests are...
"The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is launching a new roof strength rating system to help consumers pick vehicles that will help protect them in rollover crashes. Twelve small SUVs are the first to be put to the test. Only...
Post-Conference Workshop on Competitive Intelligence, April 2, 2009 - 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Sabrina I. Pacifici, Law Librarian, & Founder/Editor/Publisher, LLRX.com and beSpacific.com Librarians, competitive intelligence (CI) experts, and knowledge specialists will all benefit from this seminar focused on...
"Visit Government 2.0 for the latest tools available on USA.gov and other federal websites. With these tools, USA.gov hopes to engage the public and improve access to government information and resources. Here are just a few of the Web 2.0...
Collaboration Through Wikis at Hicks Morley - Heather Colman explains how wikis were an ideal KM solution for her law firm. Quick and easy to set up, requiring little IT support, wikis support central data repositories and provide features including...
"Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov. A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and his new administration officially came to life. One of the first changes is the White House's new...
News release [includes list of winners]: "Seventy-two vehicles earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick award for 2009. This is more than double the number of 2008 recipients and more than 3 times the number of 2007...
The Government Domain: Tracking the Transition - Peggy Garvin's thorough and concise guide to free online presidential transition trackers allows you to stay current with all the latest news, rumors and commentary about the incoming administration, via reliable websites, blogs...
News release: "Vehicle owners across the nation can be instantly informed of a safety recall under a new automated alert system announced today by U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters. The recall alerts can be received via e-mail or RSS-feeds...
Dan Farber, CNET News: "Obama will appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century. The CTO will ensure the safety...
Follow up to September 17, 2008 posting, Congress Passes ADA Amendments Act, this America.gov article, Protections for America’s Disabled Workers Expanded Under New Law: "A new law restores workplace protections for the disabled that had eroded as a result of...
News release: "The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Social Software in Libraries, SPEC Kit 304, which provides an overview of ARL libraries’ implementation of software that people use to connect with one another online...In the last few years,...
Technology Tools for Information Management - Roger V. Skalbeck and Barbara Fullerton's share a fast paced presentation of 19 practical, low cost and innovative tech tools they respectively use on a regular basis. So if you are looking for ideas...
News release: "The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) today launched a redesigned Web site featuring expanded content, improved navigation tools, and a new digital subscription service. The site's fresh content includes a Frequently Asked Questions section and...
By James R. Hagerty, From The Wall Street Journal Online: "Foreclosures are occurring at the highest rate in decades -- and as a result, lenders are acquiring homes faster than they can sell them off. Last year, sales of foreclosed...
Workshop 8 – Monitoring & Current Awareness: Mining Blogs & RSS for Research, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Sunday April 6, 2008 - Sabrina I. Pacifici, Law Librarian, Founder/Editor/Publisher, LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com. This workshop focuses on identifying and leveraging...
"The new AIDS.gov home page provides easier access to site information and offers new features." Prominently displayed at the top right side of the page are links to: a well designed and organized Blog, Podcasts to which users may listen...
"Tail Report has launched with the goal to map out how money is made in the blogosphere. Tail Report works by asking users to anonymously submit information about their site's traffic, rank and monthly revenue. In return, the user receives...
Tracking Housing Prices - Why the Numbers Conflict, By David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal Online. "Predicting how much worse the U.S. housing market will get is tough. The future is never certain. But when it comes to home prices,...
Press release: "In a letter sent Wednesday to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) again requested legal memoranda outlining the White House’s justifications and policies on torture and interrogation. Such documents have long been...
Tim Stanley: US Federal District Court Opinions with Full Text Search: "We have put online the Federal District Court case opinions and orders that are available using the opinion report in the Federal Courts' ECF. These are updated daily. We...
"LibWorm Beta is intended to be a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries. LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents...
"MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds...MedWorm collects updates from over 4000 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds. From the data collected, MedWorm provides...
The Guardian: "Thousands of rare books and manuscripts in Iraq's national library and archive, one of the country's most important cultural institutions, are in peril after the occupation of the building by Iraqi security forces, the library's director said yesterday."...
June 14, 2007 press release: "The Sunlight Foundation today launched a new search engine called LOUIS – the Library Of Unified Information Sources – to improve public access to federal documents through an all-inclusive, catalogued and cross-referenced collection of official...
"A new ICMPA study takes a look at the media's use of RSS and concludes that RSS feeds work very poorly for those who use news for more than infotainment. The study looked at 19 of the world's top news...
From the Center for Media and the Public Agenda at University of Maryland, College Park: International News and Problems with the News Media's RSS Feeds: "This study was constructed to determine which news outlets use RSS well—which outlets give users...
Via Adrian Holovaty, see the "washingtonpost.com's Presidential Campaign Tracker uses information from campaigns, media reports and other sources to compile a listing of events involving presidential candidates and their spouses. The tracker covers events since January 2007. It does not...
Follow up to January 11, 2007 posting, FirstGov is Now USA.gov, today USA.gov relaunched with a new design, navigation and accessibility platform that significantly enhances user interface with the site. The site maintains a red, white a blue theme, with...
Tech//404® Data Loss Cost Calculator: "Data loss resulting from network security breaches and identity theft has become a regular occurrence. While the number of affected records can vary widely in any given data loss scenario, a recent study by the...
FindLaw: Viacom Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against YouTube and Google Over Unauthorized Use Of The Company's Shows: Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC, and Google, Inc., March 13, 2007. Viacom statement: Suit Seeks Court Ruling To Require YouTube...
"Justia has released the free Justia Regulations Tracker, (currently in beta). Justia Regulations Tracker allows a user to focus on regulations originating from a specific federal agency and subscribe to an RSS feed of those regulations."...
Tim Stanley and the Justia team keep rolling out new services for the legal community that assist us in accessing essential government documents via user-friendly websites, with accompanying RSS feeds and customized search capabilities. Today news is about the launch...
"RSStalker.com provides RSS feeds to track price changes of Amazon.com products. Generate a feed for a single product or for an entire wishlist. Add it to your favorite aggregator and you will be automatically notified when the price changes. Simply...
Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2007 - The Race, by Robert Kuttner: "By the usual indicators, daily newspapers are in a deepening downward spiral. The new year brought reports of more newsroom layoffs, dwindling print circulation, flat or declining... Assuming that...
Whitehouse.gov, or what is now titled Welcome to the White House, has a new look, inclusive of links, on the top of the homepage, to podcasts (there appears to be a very shallow archive - with availability beginning on February...
Creating Intranet Applications for Knowledge Sharing Within Law Firms, by Jason Eiseman Technology and Policy Issues With Acquiring Digital Collections, by Roger V. Skalbeck and Iva M. Futrell Seven Legal Technology Trends for 2007: Widening the Digital Divide in Law...
Another terrific project from the Justia team, this database [still under development] of recently filed Federal District Court civil cases allows users to browse by State, Nature of Suit and Cases, as well as seach by Party Name, jurisdiction, type...
There are many changes as a result of the power shift on the Hill, not the least of which appears tangibly in the websites of various committees. This is a result of committee name changes [see New House Committee on...
"The CDC system, called PulseNet, stores the electronic DNA fingerprints of bacteria sent by health officials around the country after severe illness cases appear in local communities. PulseNet can be accessed by health officials to look for wider patterns that...
Links to the RSS feeds are as follows: Department of Homeland Security News Department of Homeland Security Press Releases Department of Homeland Security Speeches Department of Homeland Security Testimony...
List of Library of Congress RSS Feeds News - A bulletin service of the latest news from the world's preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing resources to Congress and the American people Upcoming Events - Listing of the dozens of free...
With a wide range of content formats, from podcasts to RSS and searchable databases, the OYEZ blog is a unique and content richs online resource to locate cases, information on the justices, Listen to or download the official version of...
The New York Times reported that the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab will launch a censorship circumvention solution called psiphon. According to the Citizen Lab, "psiphon is...a human rights software project...that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access...
The complete November 2006 issue is available at www.llrx.com There are 15 new articles in total, so please visit the homepage for links to and abstracts of all this month's content. Many thanks to all the authors, and have a...
Developments in Legal Outsourcing and Offshoring, by Ron Friedmann and Joy London CongressLine: New Congressional Leadership, by Paul Jenks Using RSS to Create and Enhance Current Awareness Services, by Jason Eiseman Deal or No Deal – Licensing & Acquiring Digital...
Follow up to previous postings on ChoicePoint and data breaches, today's New York Times article, Keeping Your Enemies Close, provides a chronology of how the company has made inroads in rehabilitating its reputation. See also Who will speak for customer?...
VOA News: "On November 7, Americans will elect a new Congress -- a process mandated every two years by the U.S. Constitution. At stake are all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 U.S. Senate...
Press release: "...the Seventh Circuit is the first federal court of appeals to make RSS feeds of opinions and audio recordings of oral arguments available from its Web site ....
New York Times Editorial today: Where the Books Are. See also this related posting, NY Public Library Project to Update Access to Reference Works....
New York Times - With a New Classification System, the New York Public Library Makes a Change for the Clearer: "Librarians have begun a yearlong project to reorganize, reclassify and update the roughly 25,000 reference works on the room’s open...
"Rep. Waxman asks that guidance letters provided to state Medicaid programs be provided on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services website in a format generally accessible to standard computer users." [Note: a redesign of the CMS site earlier this...
Law Librarians Look Beyond Books - "Once endangered, librarians have expanded their role to include such duties as market research and competitive intelligence." The Librarian's Expanding Role Electronic Research Staffing Resources Finances...
IN RE: SEARCH OF RAYBURN HOUSE BUILDING ROOM NO. 2113, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515, July 10, 2006: "A federal judge rules that the FBI's search of Louisiana Democratic Congressman William Jefferson's House office pursuant to a court-ordered search warrant was constitutional,...
Declan McCullagh reported: "The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping." Related postings on CALEA, and this...
Fact Sheet: Securing Our Nation’s Rail Systems, July 7, 2006 - "Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the 7/7 London subway bombings, and the Madrid rail bombings, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken several steps to...
New York Times: Identity Thief Finds Easy Money Hard to Resist...
New York Times: A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor...
In an 11-11 vote today, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation defeated the Communications, Consumers' Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (otherwise known as Net Neutrality). Senate Panel Narrowly Rejects Net Neutrality - Broadband equality proposal may...
New York Times, Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror: "Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and...
"Feed Rinse is an easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out syndicated content that you aren't interested in. It's like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions."...
New York Times: Library Phone Answerers Survive the Internet...
Reports on monitoring of employee website usage are not uncommon, but today's New York Times article highlights how blocking specific sites can impede work product. This can certainly be the case not only in the newsroom but in law firms...
Center for Medical Consumers: Dodgeball - The Pharmaceutical Companies' Direct Marketing to Doctors and the Impact on Health Care Costs and Patient Safety, June 2006 (45 pages, PDF) LA Times (reg. req'd) - Liver Failures Linked to Antibiotic Ketek Renew...
Following up on previous postings, Authority of Vast Collaborative Online Encyclopedia Questioned and Wikipedia Continues to Confront Controversy and Wikipedia Continues to Generate Headlines, related news today from the New York Times: Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy...
The Law Professor as Public Intellectual, by Cynthia Cotts, The American Lawyer, June 1, 2006 Blawgs on a Roll - Legal reporting is sometimes decried as boring and inaccurate. But a band of savvy law professors have changed all that,...
NARA: "CIA Name Files and Subject Files compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency in response to the Disclosure Acts. These files are comprised of documentation from several CIA filing systems and are organized under the names of individuals and subjects....
The New York Times reported today that the "Justice Department is asking Internet companies to keep records on the Web-surfing activities of their customers to aid law enforcement, and may propose legislation to force them to do so." Related news...
"Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Peter T. King commented on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) announcement to cut New York City’s Anti-Terrorism funding by nearly 40% from last year: As far as I'm concerned, DHS and the Administration have...
According to the New York Times, Arizona's rapid population growth combined with a "heavy traffic in methamphetamine" are signficant factors in the state's ranking at the top of the list for ID theft complaints recorded by the FTC. Related news...
This New York Times article describes the obstacles used by the SEC to obstruct public access to corporate records, even if a third party expert is used to facilitate document retrieval using a FOIA request....
Statement of Secretary of Veterans Affairs R. James Nicholson on the Status of the Veterans Data Theft (5/24/06): "I am outraged at the loss of this veterans' data and the fact an employee would put it at risk by taking...
New York Times Magazine, Scan This Book!, by Kevin Kelly, "senior maverick" at Wired magazine and author of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World....
Follow-up to May 11, 2006 posting, Domestic Call Records Mined for Expansive Pentagon Database Program, see the following related news and commentary: USAToday.com: NSA secret database report triggers fierce debate in Washington USAToday.com: Gathering data may not violate privacy rights,...
Crime or Privilege? Leaking Classified Information, by Joan Indiana Rigdon, Washington Lawyer, May 2006. "Public discussion of state secrets has come under attack many times in the past, especially during times of war. But now, as the government tries to...
From the White House: President Nominates General Michael Hayden as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Fact Sheet: General Michael V. Hayden: the Right Leader for the CIA. And from the press: New York Times: White House Begins Push...
Follow-up to yesterday's posting, FCC Orders VoIP and Broadband IP Compliance With Law Enforcement Surveillance - today Reuters reports that in a case [American Council of Education v. FCC, 05-1404] before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...
PandemicFlu.gov: "One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services. In the event of a pandemic, this will be the authoritative site for U.S. government information on the pandemic." The...
Press release: "This network neutrality bill has essentially three parts. The first part articulates overall broadband and network neutrality goals for the country, and spells out exactly what network neutrality means and puts it into the statute so that it...
Follow-up to yesterday's posting, New Libby Filing Demands Release of Documents Related to Iraq Intel ["The defense intends to show the jury that the controversy over intelligence failures during the spring and summer of 2003 led certain officials within the...
Follow-up to previous postings on a Connecticut library oranization that was the target of a National Security Letter gag ordered, today the New York Times reported, Librarians Win as U.S. Relents on Secrecy Law: "After fighting ferociously for months, federal...
Follow-up to April 9, 2006 posting, Reports Substantiate WH Plan to Discredit Iraq War Critic Via Plame CIA Leak, President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University,...
The Public Editor - The Times's New Blogs: More Information, Fewer Filters, by Byron Calame....
Follow-up to April 7, 2006 posting, Plame Leak Controversy Focused on President With Release of New Info, see: today's Washington Post: Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story: "As he drew back the curtain this week on...
New York Times: Gonzales Suggests Legal Basis for Domestic Eavesdropping House Judiciary Committee, April 6, 2006, Oversight Hearing on The United States Department of Justice. Related postings on domestic surveillance...
New York Times interview with DHS Director Michael Chertoff,by Deborah Solomon, April 2, 2006: Chertoff states, "I don't use e-mail. One reason is when you write an e-mail, you have to be mindful of the fact that nothing ever disappears....
An Examination of the Call to Censure the President, Senate Judiciary Committee, Full Committee, March 31, 2006 Sen. Feingold's Resolution to Censure the President Testimony: Bruce Fein, Partner, Fein & Fein Lee Casey, Partner, Baker & Hostetler Sen. Patrick Leahy...
Follow-up to yesterday's posting, Judiciary Cmte. Holds Hearing on NSA Wiretapping, in today's New York Times, Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program. Related postings on domestic surveillance...
New York Times Op-Ed, March 26, 2006: Searching for Dummies, by Edward Tenner....
Following up on previous postings concerning the FBI's use of National Security Letters to obtain library patron records, the New York Times reports today, Librarian Is Still John Doe, Despite Patriot Act Revision...
New York Times, March 18, 2006: Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms? Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law, by Lauren Stiller Rikleen...
The Implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, Audit Report 06-13, [Redacted] March 2006 (PDF) Executive Summary: "Criminal organizations and individuals frequently use the telecommunications systems of the United States to further serious violent crimes, including terrorism, kidnapping,...
Computers in Libraries 2006, Post Conference Workshops – Saturday, March 25 - Workshop 17 — 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., presented by Sabrina I. Pacifici (LLRX.com and beSpacific) This workshop focuses on leveraging the best of free and low-fee Web...
NARA press release: "Archivist of the United States Announces New Steps in Response to Withdrawal of Declassified Records from Open Shelves at the National Archives" Related documents, news and postings: Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000 Public Interest Declassification Board...
The vote was 89-10, with the following senators voting against the reauthorization: Sen. Akaka (D-HI); Sen. Bingaman (D-NM); Sen. Byrd (D-WV; Sen. Feingold (D-WI); Sen. Harkin (D-IA); Sen. Jeffords (I-VT); Sen. Leahy (D-VT); Sen. Levin (D-MI); Sen. Murray (D-WA) and...
New York Times: Cyberthieves Silently Copy Your Passwords as You Type USA Today, Increasing Web attacks disrupt commerce Related postings on cybercrime...
Follow-up to National Journal Article Claims Curtailed Gov't Surveillance Program Still Active, from today's New York Times, Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data: "...by fundamentally changing the nature of surveillance, high-tech data mining...
New York times: Ruling May Undercut Google in Fight Over Its Book Scans See also this related commentary: The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate, by Jonathan Band The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project, by Jonathan Band...
New York Times: Dow Jones Plans to Merge Online and Print Divisions...
EURES - The European Job Mobility Portal: The easy way to find information on jobs and learning opportunities in Europe. Related resources: The Tao of Law Librarianship: Do-It-Yourself Professional Development, Part II, by Connie Crosby Job Swaps and Library Exchanges,...
Press release: "Senator Susan Collins, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Ranking Member Joseph Lieberman sent letters today to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Department of Treasury Secretary John Snow expressing...
New York Times: Too Many New Gadgets, Too Much Information at Risk: Loss, theft and viruses are major issues as corporate use of handheld devices and pocket PCs increases. Pre-emptive security options are available however, as this article describes....
National Security Archive press release: "The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), according to a report published today on the...
New York Times: That Which We Call a Blog... Referenced in the article is the recent Technorati posting on how many blogs the site is now tracking....
AP: Rockefeller Questions NSA's Authority Vice Chairman Rockefeller's Statement on the Senate Intelligence Committee's Failure to Vote on Whether to Authorize an Investigation into the NSA Surveillance Program New York Times: Senate Chairman Splits With Bush on Spy Program [Please...
Follow-up to a series of recent postings on the growing controversy concerning NASA's policy to limit public access to accurate scientific documents on global warming. New York Times - Call for Openness at NASA Adds to Reports of Pressure: "Top...
"Five independent investigators of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights are calling on the United States to close immediately the detention centre in Guantánamo Bay and bring all detainees before an independent and competent tribunal or release them." (The...
Follow-up to yesterday's posting, Investigation into Domestic Spying Program Blocked, today AP reports Justice Argues Against Ashcroft Testimony, and the New York Times reports Senate Panel Decides Against Eavesdropping Investigation, at Least for Now. From AP, this report tonight that...
House of Representatives Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations, February 15, 2006 Hearing, The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression? Links to statements and testimony below are in PDF: The...
Following up on recent postings: Yahoo Issues Statement on Chinese Net Censorship, Net Censorship Abroad - Free Speech Colides With E-commerce? and Hearing Focuses on Internet Censorship in China, related news today via this State Dept. press release - statement...
New York Times: Republicans' Report on Katrina Assails Administration Response Washington Post: Katrina Report Spreads Blame, Homeland Security, Chertoff Singled Out Related government documents: DHS Fact Sheet: Strengthening FEMA to Maximize Mission Performance, February 13, 2006 - "Homeland Security Secretary...
U.S. Census Bureau: U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Highlights, February 10, 2006. Goods and Services Deficit Increases in 2005. Also from Census, U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services - Current, Prior and Compressed New York Times: U.S....
Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq, by Paul R. Pillar, From Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006 Summary: "During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community's former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded...
Follow-up to February 2, 2006 posting, Hearing Focuses on Internet Censorship in China, this WSJ free feature today: Internet Censorship - Web Firms Face Grilling on China. Related news: New York Times, So Long, Dalai Lama: Google Adapts to China...
New York Times, Inquiry Into Wiretapping Article Widens: "Federal agents have interviewed officials at several of the country's law enforcement and national security agencies in a rapidly expanding criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding a New York Times article published...
"FirstGov.gov Updates - News and Features - Stay on top of important government news and information with the FirstGov Updates - News and Features RSS feed [link to feed]. We'll update this feed when we update news and featured content...
Follow-up to Gov't Climate Change Expert Contends Censorship of Data and NASA Chief Calls for "Scientific Openness" Amidst Claims of Gov't Secrecy, today this report from the New York Times on the resignation of a presidential appointee at NASA responsible...
Follow-up to yesterday's posting, AG Alberto R. Gonzales Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Cmte. Today, the following transcript of the AG's answers to Sen. Specter's questions (11 pages, PDF), via CDT. Related references: New York Times: Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls...
'State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration,' by James Risen - Spies and Spymasters, Review by Walter Isaacson....
New York Times: New Details Revealed on C.I.A. Leak Case: "Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told prosecutors that Mr. Cheney had informed him "in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion" in mid-June 2003 about the...
FAQ: When Google is not your friend, by Declan McCullagh: "Google's recent legal spat with the U.S. Department of Justice highlights not only what information search engines record about us but also the shortcomings in a federal law that's supposed...
Phone Records For Sale: Why Aren't Phone Records Safe From Pretexting?, Full Committee on Energy and Commerce, February 1, 2006. Statement of Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee FCC Chairman Martin's Statement (10 pages,...
SEC Proposed Rule on Executive Compensation and Related Party Disclosure, January 28, 2006 (370 pages, PDF) Related reference, New York Times, January 29, 2006: The Case for Cutting the Chief's Paycheck: "Corporate America has made some progress in cleaning up...
New York Times editorial, January 29, 2006, Spies, Lies and Wiretaps: "A bit over a week ago, President Bush and his men promised to provide the legal, constitutional and moral justifications for the sort of warrantless spying on Americans that...
New York Times: Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him Editor & Publisher: Two Top Papers Ask: Is the Earth Heading for Doom--With an Assist from the White House?...
In a shift from previous responses to and commentary about DOJ's subpoena for Google's search data, this New York Times article, In Case About Google's Secrets, Yours Are Safe, recasts the probe with a focus on protecting corporate trade secrets,...
This New York Times essay, A Growing Web of Watchers Builds a Surveillance Society, by David Shenk, offers especially cautionary insight in light of the growing public and political response to revelations about the government's domestic surveillance program. After Subpoenas,...
A 39 page report from the Department of Homeland Security's National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center, titled: Fast Analysis Report (Update to Reflect Category 5 Status) to DHS 1P on Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast, dated August 28, 2005, provides detailed...
Notable articles today: New York Times: Delicate Dance for Bush in Depicting Spy Program as Asset Washington Post (reg. req'd) Bush Defends Domestic Spying - Deputy National Intelligence Chief Says Program is Targeted on Al Qaeda President Discusses Global War...
On January 4, 2006, Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA) sent a letter to President Bush stating that "... the practice of briefing only certain Members of the intelligence committees [on NSA programs] violates the specific requirements of the National Security Act...
New York Times: Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends: "President Bush has characterized the eavesdropping program, which focused on the international communications of some Americans and others in the United States, as a "vital tool"...
The New York Times reports on a speech given today in Washington D.C. at DAR Constitutional Hall by former Vice President Al Gore, the focus of which was presidential authority, government secrecy, domestic surveillance, and the decline of congressional power....
This January 13, 2006 New York Times article, Even Law Firms Join the Trend to Outsourcing, raises questions about outsourcing expert legal services....
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on the nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for Monday, January 9, 2006 at 12:00 p.m. in...
Series of articles related to the corruption scandal impacting a growing number of individuals on the Hill, as well as lobbying firms. AP: DeLay Gives Up Bid to Reclaim House Post New York Times: Officials Focus on a 2nd Firm...
New York Times: Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor: 80% of Marine fatalities could have been prevented if higher quality body armor, which has been available since 2003, had been distributed to these troops....
CRS Report, January 5, 2006: Presidential Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance to Gather Foreign Intelligence Information (44 pages, PDF) Related references: New York Times, Report Questions Legal Basis for Bush's Spying Program: "President Bush's rationale for authorizing eavesdropping on...
From FAS, this link to a new CRS report, National Security Whistleblowers, December 30, 2005 (47 pages, PDF): "To discharge its constitutional duties, Congress depends on information obtained from the executive branch. Domestic and national security information is provided through...
Several articles available today expand upon the discussion about, and information related to, the escalating controversy generated by revelations of a post 9/11 domestic surveillance program. Listed below are the articles and links which collectively shed new light on the...
The Law Page is a new, centralized webpage from which readers may link to a range of information and commentary on law and business related issues that the Journal is aggregating from current content as well as additional sources. This...
In 2005, there was alot written about RSS, from the standpoint of marketing, enterprise-wide communications, current awareness monitoring, and as an app that perhaps could significantly diminish the use of email. Interesting, therefore, to note this article, It's time to...
Several news items today regarding the domestic surveillance program revealed in a December 15, 2005 New York Times article, the ramifications of which are subject to Congressional and DOJ investigation, continued commentary and perhaps further response by other judges on...
Following up on yesterday's posting, NSA Website Uses Cookies Despite Prohibition, from today's New York Times: Spy Agency Removes Illegal Tracking Files. See also U.S. to probe contractor's Web tracking...
As reported by ClickZ News, the Washington Post.com will now provide access to articles for a 60 day period following publication, according to James M. Brady, Executive Editor. Prior to this, articles were archived after 14 days. Extending access to...
New York Times: The Agency That Could Be Big Brother: "...the N.S.A. has suddenly taken center stage in a political firestorm. The controversy over whether the president broke the law when he secretly ordered the N.S.A. to bypass a special...
New York Times: NSA spying inquiry may be expanded, "Congressional officials said Saturday that they wanted to investigate the disclosure that the National Security Agency (NSA) had gained access to some of the country's main telephone arteries to glean data...
Ex-Powell Aide Moves From Insider to Apostate CBS/AP: Powell Supports Eavesdropping...
RSS Aggregation - Part 1: The Partnership...
NARA press release: "The National Archives at College Park will release 45 documents relating to Samuel Alito. These records total 744 pages from Record Group 60, Records of the Department of Justice, Files of John Bolton, Michael Carvin, Roger Clegg,...
Following up on news that Judge Robinson resigned from the FISA court in protest over the administration's warrantless surveillance program, related commentary and articles: Warrantless Wiretapping: Why It Seriously Imperils the Separation of Powers, And Continues the Executive's Sapping of...
Via FAS: "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created by section 103(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803(a)). It was originally comprised of seven district judges from seven circuits named by the Chief Justice of...
Press release: "According to new documents released today by the American Civil Liberties Union, the FBI is using counterterrorism resources to monitor and infiltrate domestic political organizations that criticize business interests and government policies, despite a lack of evidence that...
Google Offers a Bird's-Eye View, and Some Governments Tremble Google Earth Aerial Images Provided by Leading Search Engines All the Rage...
As noted, this week marked a dramatic shift in Senate support for Patriot Act reauthorization without substantive reforms to the White House backed bill. Today a bipartisan group of Senators blocked the the bill's approval (the vote was 52-47), noting...
New York Times: Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits on Spying in U.S. After 9/11, Officials Say, by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau: "Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans...
Press release: "House Democrats released a new report today outlining the failures of the Republican Congress to meet the immediate needs of families impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Americans endured unprecedented tragedy and destruction from hurricanes Katrina and Rita but the...
Follow-up to Deal Reached on Patriot Act Reauthorization Amid Wide Disagreement, this press release today: "Senator Patrick Leahy, (D-Vt.), the ranking Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee, has forged a coalition of Republican and Democratic senators that introduced a bill...
New York Times: Conservative Blogs are More Effective Nature - Science in the web age: Joint efforts: "At its best, academia is a marketplace of ideas. But many scientists are reluctant to embrace the latest web tools that would allow...
News about administration use of propaganda is further documented in this December 10 New York Times article, Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive. Related link: Lincoln Group press release, December 2, 2005: "Lincoln Group has consistently worked with...
News reports this afternoon on the compromise reached by the House and Senate on Patriot Act reauthorization include the strong caveat that not all Senators are satisfied (see statements as follows, from Leahy and Feingold), and opposition continues (specifically from...
GAA now provides daily updates of reports and testimony via RSS. Just click on the orange RSS button on the front page, for further information. [JoAnna Berry, Reference and Research, Government Accountability Office]...
Today the Washington Post launched a news website, The U.S. Congress Voters Database, that allows users to browse data from the 102nd Congress (1991) to the 109th Congress (present). A search engine and other features will be forthcoming. "This site...
Following up on previous postings about phishing, the New York Times yesterday published an article, Gone Spear-Phishin' detailing the extent, impact and intent of cybercriminals who launch Trojans to steal the data of individuals and corporations, for both profit and...
Growing pains for Wikipedia: "...founder Jimmy Walee [is]going to change the ground rules for the popular anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia..." Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar How wikis are changing our view of the world AP: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia...
Follow up to Media Challenges Withholding Publication of Plame Investigation Documents, November 14, 2005: New York Times, Leak Ruling Has Mystery, 8 Blank Pages Government Response to Motion Motion of Dow Jones & Co. to Unseal Redacted Portion of the...
News today about the DOJ's 2003 memo concerning the Congressional redistricting plan enacted by the Texas Legislature (Texas House Bill 3). The text of the document (73 pages, PDF), has been published by the Lone Star Project. From the document:...
Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems, Micah Sherr, Eric Cronin, Sandy Clark and Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania, November/December 2005 issue of IEEE Security and Privacy (21 pages, PDF). Overview New York Times, Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study...
Universities Say New Rules Could Hurt U.S. Research Related resources: March 28, 2005 Federal Register, Department of Commerce advance notice of proposed rulemaking, Revision and Clarification of Deemed Export Related Regulatory Requirements. DOD IG Report: Export Controlled Technology at Contractor,...
White House press release, November 15, 2005, Setting the Record Straight: The New York Times Editorial on Pre-War Intelligence. WSJ free feature: Majority Believe White House Misleads Public, Poll Shows New York Times: Even Supporters Doubt President as Issues Pile...
PC World: Microsoft Makes RSS a Two-Way Street - Proposed 'extensions' to specification allow multidirectional synchronization. Microsoft: Frequently Asked Questions for Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) Ray Ozzie's Weblog: Really Simple Sharing...
This profile of Sidney Verba, Harvard University Library Director, professor of government, and author of numerous books and articles, addresses key aspects related to the university's participation in the Google Book Search project. Related references: Books Online: The Fee versus...
New York Times: Googling Literature: The Debate Goes Public Related references: Google, Authors, Publishers, and Library Officials in Discussion at The New York Public Library: Panel with Library President Paul LeClerc, Google VP David Drummond, legal scholar Lawrence Lessig, Wired...
Following up on reports of civil liberties protections having been stripped from the draft Patriot Act reauthorization and information that the bill contains "poison pill measures," news today that a bipartisan group of Senators (including Feingold and Sununu) is attempting...
Following up on postings concerning the expanding circle of journalists involved in the Plame investigation, news today that the grand jury heard testimony this week from Bob Woodward, heretofore not named. Washington Post (reg. req'd), Woodward Was Told of Plame...
From the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Office of the Inspector General, Review of Alleged Actions Violating the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, as Amended (67 pages, PDF), November 15, 2005. "We found evidence that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)...
Law tech guru Dennis Kennedy is quoted in this article in today's New York Times: Beware Your Trail of Digital Fingerprints. He suggests practical ways to eliminate data deleted in revisions when it is determined that documents have been finalized....
Follow-up to previous postings on FBI use of National Security Letters to obtain data on library patron use of online services in Connecticut: Washington Post,The FBI's Secret Scrutiny. The Washington Post researched and reveals the names of the "John Doe's"...
New York Times: Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Suspicions: "A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that...
New York Times, Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies, speculates on Google's potential plans to broaden the company's e-commerce endeavors, including property listings in conjunction with mapping, searching, and satellite projects currently extant, and comparison pricing for a...
Oklahoma Courts Now Offer RSS Newsfeeds: "You can now receive Oklahoma appellate court opinions and Oklahoma Attorney General opinions via RSS newsfeeds at no charge." As Jim indicates, Oklahoma joins two other trailblazing states, West Virginia and Louisiana, who also...
New York Times: Data Security Laws Seem Likely, So Consumers and Businesses Vie to Shape Them Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, A Chronology of Data Breaches Reported Since the ChoicePoint Incident, updated October 19, 2005 H.R. 4127, the Data Accountability and Trust...
In a Letter to President Bush, White House Counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. GOP senators assert independence in wake of Miers withdrawal New York Times: Miers Failed to Win Support of...
New York Times: Grand Jurors Hear Counsel on Leak Case Washington Post, Grand Jury Hears Summary of Case On CIA Leak Probe - Decision on Charges May Come Friday New York Times: Prosecutor in C.I.A. Leak Case Is Said to...
See the following sources for additional information: Financial Times: Indictments in CIA leak 'about to be handed down' New York Times: Leak Counsel Is Said to Press on Rove's Role Washington Post: White House Aides Brace For CIA Leak Charges...
From the New York Times today: Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Lawyers Report...
Intelligence and Analysis on Iraq: Issues for the Intelligence Community, 29 July 2004; approved for release August 2005. (12 pages, PDF) "This is the third in a series of reports by the Kerr Group (Richard Kerr, Thomas Wolfe, Rebecca Donegan,...
Press release from New York Senator Charles Schumer: "Today, Sen. Chuck Schumer sent the attached letter to President Bush asking him to detail his conversations with his top political adviser, Karl Rove, about the White House's leak of the identity...
Yahoo! White Paper on RSS (12 pages, PDF)...
From the New York Times (reg. req'd), links to the following documents in PDF: Senate Judiciary Committee's Questionnaire (57 pages, PDF) 1989 Questionnaire From Texans United for Life (2 pages, PDF) Financial Statement/Net Worth (2 pages, PDF) Financial Disclosure Report...
IBM's Chief Privacy Officer Harriet Pearson is quoted today as pledging her company will not use genetic information to determine employment, or health care benefits for current employees. Related references: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005 (H.R. 1227) Genetic Information...
Google launched a beta version of Google Reader, a service that requires users to have a gmail account. Google Reader Help FAQ...
From the University of Michigan Law Library, Information on Harriet Miers, Nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court. This page was created with the collaborative effort of Kincaid C. Brown, Barbara H. Garavaglia, Aimee S. Mangan and Jennifer Selby. SMU...
CIA Director Porter J. Goss statement on CIA Office of the Inspector General Report, "CIA Accountability with Respect to the 9/11 Attacks". "I will not convene an accountability board to judge the performances of any individual CIA officers." Related links:...
"The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the...
Follow-up to my previous posting, Controversy Surrounds Government Sponsored News, new developments and related links: press release: GAO Blasts Illegal Propaganda Campaign at the U.S. Department of Education: "Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) ruled that the Bush Department of...
A new service from SurfWax: Scan Top RSS Feeds by Title: (updated hourly; covers past seven days; sorted by date)...
Federal Reserve Board press release, September 22, 2005: "The Federal Reserve Board announced on Thursday that beginning in 2006, the content of the Federal Reserve Bulletin will be published on the Board's public web site on a continuing basis, as...
From 0 to 360 in Seconds – How to Get Up to Speed with Thomson's Firm360, by Donna Cavallini CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com: The American Town Meeting, by Paul Jenks The Government Domain: RSS and Uncle Sam, by Peggy Garvin FOIA...
The Chief Justice of the United States: Responsibilites of the Office and Process for Appointment, updated September 12, 2005 [thanks to GalleryWatch.com]...
From AP today, this article highlights the battlelines that have been drawn, and are hardening, between publishers and Google concerning the expansive plan to digitize significant library collections from throughout the world, thus allowing users to search content on the...
Press release: "After a second review by the executive branch, a September 12, 2005 version of the 9/11 Commission Staff Monograph on the Four Flights and Civil Aviation Security has been released by the U.S. Department of Justice and transferred...
Judge Roberts, the Committee Is Interested in Your View on . . . Democratic Members Of Senate Judiciary Committee Announce Witness List For Hearings On Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts Jr.: ...those on the list consist "national leaders, legal scholars...
From Stateline.org, this RSS feed on Hurricane Katrina provides regular updates on specific efforts underway by states impacted by the disaster, as well as others throught the country that are responding with increased efforts directed toward disaster planning....
Following up on my September 1 posting, Will Librarian Go To Prison Over Patriot Act Challenge?, see this September 9 press release from the ACLU: "A federal judge today ruled that the FBI must lift a gag that is preventing...
A new website was launched by the Congressional information services company Gallerywatch.com, called USCongress.com. The site, whose content and sources will expand in upcoming weeks and months, is already a significant resource for government documents on a wide range of...
Reid Letter to Chairman Collins on Oversight Hearing, Wednesday, September 7, 2005: "Nearly four years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 sent a clear signal that we needed to be better prepared for major catastrophes on U.S. soil, the American...
New York Times Magazine, September 4, 2005: Political Science Related references: Questions Surround Editing of U.S. Report on Global Warming Science Advisor to President Works Amidst Controversy...
Statement by President Bush during an interview with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, September 1, 2005: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did appreciate a serious storm but these levees got breached and as a...
GPO's "What's New" website updates which provide links to full-text versions of significant government documents, is now also available via an RSS feed....
FirstGov has posted a new website that includes the following topical areas which in turn include numerous useful links: What To Do If You Are A Victim; How To Help Victims; and Disaster Cleanup and Agency Resources. NOAA Atlantic Hurricane...
The FDA has a website that provides links to all of the agency's RSS feeds, which currently include: press releases, recalls, food safety news and medical device information and news....
"Gartner...released its 2005 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, assessing the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 44 technologies and trends over the coming decade." [press release] Key collaboration technologies in the "hype cycle" include: Podcasting, Peer to Peer (P2P) voice...
Google Anything, so Long as It's Not Google, by Randall Stross. For context see: Google balances privacy, reach Google CEO defends privacy policies Google's Boycott Misses the Mark...
Roberts v. the Future, by Jeffrey Rosen: "...in the next 10 or 15 years, as technology and science continue to advance and America's demographic profile continues to change, the Supreme Court will, in all likelihood, be asked to decide a...
Several articles today highlight the significance of yesterday's ALCU announcement that the government has used authority granted by the Patriot Act, Sec. 505, on National Security Letters, to obtain copies of patron internet related activities from a library institution whose...
Google has been the topic of several articles in the New York Times this week. Yesterday the focus was on corporate expansion, and today there is news about Google Desktop 2, an IM application called Google Talk, and Gmail for...
From the New York Times, Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain addresses a range of concerns about the expanding profits, plans, and profile of the company that has set its sights on dominating the information technology marketplace....
The patent law experts at rethink(ip) have created RSS feeds for all news items and notices released by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Terrific resource, and thanks to Dennis Kennedy for the link....
From Jim Moore's Journal: Reporting on systems evolving, the following posting yesterday provides step by step details on how researchers can easily and effectively leverage RSS: RSS-oriented search engines are appearing, including MSN search, with RSS output and one-click subscriptions...
From the Yahoo! Search Blog, details about new features launched last night on Yahoo! Local: "..city pages...built for every city, neighborhood, and zip across the US of A...highlight upcoming events, top user recommendations for restaurants and other favorite local spots...
Microsoft exec defends RSS rebranding - Renaming to 'Web feeds' spurs debate among bloggers Another day, another story...Microsoft Rethinks RSS Name Change...
Following up on my August 9, 2005 posting, Yahoo Claims Larger Search Engine Index Than Google, see this new survey challenging Yahoo's claim: A Comparison of the Size of the Yahoo! and Google Indices, by Matthew Cheney, Mike Perry, and...
The Assn. of American Publishers comments on Google's announcement yesterday to delay Google Print Program within the context of this LA Times article today (reg. reg'd). Today's Washington Post article, Google Delays Book Scanning (reg. req'd) also addresses the factor...
Following up on my posting yesterday, Government Data Mining Detailed Info on 9/11 Hijackers Back in 2000, this article from today's New York Times, 9/11 Panel Seeks Inquiry on New Atta Report....
According to an August 9, 2005 article in the New York Times, "More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of...
From Google: About Feeds and Terms of Use: "Google News section feeds: You can get a feed for any Google News section. For instance, if you select a feed link while you're on the Business page, you'll get a feed...
The 9/11 Public Discourse Project today released a series of letters sent by the organization to the White House and 11 other government agencies seeking documentation of efforts made to implement the recommendations made by the organization's predecessor, the 9/11...
From the New York Times, The Rise of the Digital Thugs chronicles the under-reported, yet growing, threat to corporations from "cyber extortionists" seeking bribes in return for withholding data and information obtained by breaching networks. Related reference: Enumerating and Reducing...
An article in today's New York Times spotlights a website called HopStop.com, an online transit guide that "provides door-to-door subway and bus directions and maps for New York City."...
The Sniffer vs. the Cybercrooks...
Reading Between the Lines of Used Book Sales. Related references from the article: Ghose, Anindya, Smith, Michael D. and Telang, Rahul, Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Implications and Policy Issues (August 25, 2004). Goolsbee, Austan,...
The New York Times reported that the House version of the Patriot Act reauthorization would require the DOJ to report to Congress on data mining activities....
What is RSS and Why Should I Care?, presented by Marianne Lenox, Staff Training and Development Coordinator, Huntsville Madison County Public Library, July 2005. [Peter Scott]...
The House (H.R. 3199) and the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to renew provisions of the Patriot Act which sunset by year's end. House Supports PATRIOT Act Reauthorization in Solid, Bipartisan Vote - Sensenbrenner: The American people are safer today because...
Public Awareness of Internet Terms, 7/20/2005: "The average American internet user is not sure what podcasting is, what an RSS feed does, or what the term phishing means." The data memo is 7 pages, PDF....
Driven to distraction by technology: "The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into...
Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Reporters' Privilege Legislation: Issues and Implications, Wednesday, July 20, 2005 [Free Flow of Information Act of 2005, S. 1419. See also the House companion bill, H.R. 3323.] Link to testimony and member statements....
All the articles listed are available in Part 1 of the July 2005 issue of LLRX.com: Delivering Actionable Information To Front-Line Lawyers - John Alber details the effective implementation of business intelligence (BI) systems within law firms. The Government Domain:...
From WSJ free content, Information Security - Where the Dangers Are: The threats to information security that keep the experts up at night -- and what businesses and consumers can do to protect themselves. See also Corrupted PC's Find New...
FBI says it has files on ACLU, Greenpeace, other rights groups Large Volume of F.B.I. Files Alarms U.S. Activist Groups: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected at least 3,500 pages of internal documents in the last several years on...
As a follow-up to my December 12, 2003 posting, E-ZPass Technology, Law Enforcement and Privacy, see this article, A Pass on Privacy, from the Sunday New York Times Magazine: "The computer system to which you have surrendered your payment information...
RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0, Compared: "People who generate syndication feeds have a choice of feed formats. As of mid-2005, the two most likely candidates will be RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0. The purpose of this page is to summarize,...
Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit Internet Archive the complaint, filed in District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (48 pages, PDF)...
H.R. 3199, To extend and modify authorities needed to combat terrorism, and for other purposes. Introduced July 11, 2005 U.S. Newswire - "The House Judiciary Committee today passed legislation (H.R. 3199) reauthorizing the USA-PATRIOT Act by a 23-to-14 vote with...
From the New York Times today, Secrecy Is Lifted in Some Tax Court Trials...
New York Times editorial today, The Dangerous Comfort of Secrecy: "The Bush administration is classifying the documents to be kept from public scrutiny at the rate of 125 a minute. The move toward greater secrecy has nearly doubled the number...
"Unnecessary Powers: The Patriot Act already gives government too much power to spy on ordinary Americans, but things could get far worse. Congress is considering adding a broad new investigative power, known as the administrative subpoena, that would allow the...
This New York Times article discusses the growing interest in, and testing of, delivering adverts to consumers via RSS feeds, which may in some measure be an inevitable result of the hype the technology has been receiving from both the...
As a follow-up to my April 2, 2005 posting, Significant Rise in Classification of Gov't Docs Focus of New Reports, this July 3, 2005 New York Times article, Increase in the Number of Documents Classified by the Government, reports on...
The pros and cons of e-tailers using blogs are reviewed in this New York Time article today....
Fact Sheet: Bush Administration Implements WMD Commission Recommendations, June 29, 2005. "Today, President Bush Announced Actions To Implement Recommendations In The WMD Commission's Report To Make America Safer And To Ensure The Intelligence Community Is Prepared To Address The Threats...
NewsForge has a detailed and very interesting posting on how a group of Italian attorneys have formed a consortium to facilitate the distribution of, and training programs about how to efficiently use open source applications for a range of document...
The cover story of the July 4, 2005 issue of Newsweek is on ID theft. Following are links to several articles from the issue, as well as a link to a relevant article from the New York Times Sunday Week...
The Microsoft Development Center has extensive and detailed documentation on RSS implementation in Longhorn: "This paper describes RSS in the context of a vision for how web content is and will be consumed, explores opportunities enabled by incorporating RSS functionality...
David Pogue provides details on how a pricey, private and very fast WiFi access option is now available to business travelers who need to work wherever they may be...on the road, or at the beach, or in the airport....
Social Security Opened Its Files for 9/11 Inquiry: "The Social Security Administration has relaxed its privacy restrictions and searched thousands of its files at the request of the F.B.I. as part of terrorism investigations since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,...
From CNN Money, ID data breaches: as rampant as it seems documents the circumstances of the most recently reported incident of hacking, called skimming, that involved the illegal acquisition and storage of credit card data, the exact impact of which...
From the June 17, 2005 New York Times: Antiwar Group Says Leaked British Memo Shows Bush Misled Public on His War Plans The Secret Downing Street Memo published by the Sunday Times on May 15, 2005 Follow-up to Conyers' "Downing...
Questions about the adequacy of the data and structure of the federal government's terror watch list continue, and today's New York Times reports on the the results of a recently released DOJ OIG study documenting significant weaknesses with the project,...
On June, 2005 the New York Times published this article, Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming, which states that Philip A. Cooney, White House Council on Environmental Quality's chief of staff, formerly with the American Petroleum Institute,...
The Scramble to Protect Personal Information, from today's New York Times, addresses the issue of significant vulnerabilities in the transfer mechanisms used for financial data, which have resulted in numerous recent headline grabbing reports on the loss and theft of...
On June 7 the New York Times reported on the availability of a significant new Justice Department memo that addresses limitations to the prosecution of personnel in the healthcare arena who have violated patient privacy by stealing personal data. Today,...
From Wall Street Journal free features, Blogging Becomes A Corporate Job provides a general overview of how several companies, including Microsoft and Stonefield Stonyfield Farm Inc., are diversifying their marketing and corporate communications with the addition of talented bloggers to...
The Proposal to Reauthorize and Expand Parts of the USA PATRIOT Act: Why It's Unnecessary and, In Some Respects, Dangerous, By Anita Ramastry. Patriot Act Extension Debated at Closed Congressional Meeting American Civil Liberties Union Testimony at an Oversight Hearing...
What is the future for Web sites in a world of RSS? by Matt McAlister, VP & General Manager, Online, InfoWorld. [Micro Persuasion] "We've all joined onto a platform, a common standard for pushing/pulling/sharing individual items. Those items might be...
From the New York Times, Are Bloggers Setting the Agenda? It Depends on the Scandal. Refers to the Pew Internet and American Life Project report issued last week, "Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the...
Enron Offers an Unlikely Boost to E-Mail Surveillance This article references the work of Dr. David B. Skillicorn and Dr. Kathleen M. Carley...
Nick Bradbury's May 20 post, RSS, Spam and Spyware, raises significant questions about security and privacy issues arising from the push for RSS ubiquity. Scroll down and read the comments as well....
From today's Washington Post: Computers Seized in Data-Theft Probe - Federal Investigators Remove PCs, Discs From Several Locations; LexisNexis Break-In Linked to Paris Hilton Phone Hacking Related beSpacific postings on this story are here and here. See also this article...
A non-profit, non-government affiliated project, this free, browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago (with source data from the Chicago Police Department's Citizen ICAM website), makes use of Google for map views, and RSS feeds "for every block and police...
The FirstGov.gov Reference Center Libraries. An alphabetical list of links to resources including: national, federal and local libraries, online library databases, email listservs, Government RSS Library, and lots more. Worth a look....
Follow-up to my April 29, 2005 posting: New Justia Web Site Enables Consumers to Easily Track Auto Recalls: "Justia, an innovative provider of legal marketing services and resources for law firms, today announced the launch of a comprehensive auto recalls...
From FirstGov.gov, this U.S. Government RSS Library webpage aggregates links to a wide range of resources, including news releases, press briefings, transcripts, reports, advisories, statistics and technical documents, in one easy to use location, providing content on the following topical...
From the New York Times, Internet Phones Arrive at Home (And Some Need No Computer)...
In the Swamp, an 'Extinct' Woodpecker Lives, and Ivory-billed woodpecker flies back from the dead....
Tim Stanley and crew have been busy, with the usual outstanding results. See his latest launch, Auto Recalls, an A to Z listing of makes and models, with accompanying RSS feeds. This site is easy to use, fast, comprehensive...and I...
Theft of high-end gadgets such as iPods have recently been the subject of articles in major papers, including this April 28 New York Times article and this Washington Post (reg. req'd) article, from April 16. These thefts have in turn...
From today's New York Times Magazine, You've Been Sold, by Richard A. Clarke. "What Congress can do now to bust the boom in identity theft." Related beSpacific postings on ID theft...
DeLay Outlines Strategy Against Federal Judges: "Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, sharply criticized Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court on Tuesday and said the House Judiciary Committee would explore what the authors of the Constitution intended...
Various sources have reported on Google's trademark infringement lawsuit against Froogles.com, and a copy of the complaint (68 pages, PDF), filed April 8, in District Court for the Eastern District of New York, is available courtesy of Search Engine Watch...
Blogs, Wikis, RSS: Walking the enterprise tightrope...
The current Yahoo! News site has been transformed with this beta that sports a more sophisticated and user-friendly design, layout, and navigation features, using well placed content tabs, as well as more prominent display and organization of sources and time...
From the WSJ Free Content, Librarians Reference These Sites When Seeking Work, by Sarah E. Needleman...
U.S. National Debt Clock - The Outstanding Public Debt as of 12 Apr 2005 at 02:28:37 AM GMT is: $7,797,789,055,078.33 Related references: from the April 10, 2005 New York Times, A Tax Increase That Bush Didn't Mention, and from the...
New York Times Editorial, April 10, 2005 - Revising the Patriot Act...
Goodbye to Privacy, by William Safire, April 10, 2005 New York Times Book Review, focuses on the pervasiveness of electronic data collection of personal information on U.S. citizens, by a range of companies. Two recent books, No Place to Hide...
"Welcome to the Election Monitor, the BBC News website's campaign weblog. From now until polling day, we will be bringing you first-hand reports from around the country from our team of correspondents, as well as the best of the newspapers,...
White House Has Tightly Restricted Oversight of C.I.A. Detentions "By law, the White House is required to notify the House and Senate Intelligence Committees of all intelligence-gathering activities. But the White House has taken the stance that the secret detention...
Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies, by Ellen Finkelstein....
From the New York Times, Report Calls U.S. Intelligence 'Dead Wrong' on Iraq Weapons. See also related references. Report by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, March 31, 2005 About the...
From AP, WMD Panel to Fault Intelligence Agencies, and the New York Times, Panel's Report Assails C.I.A. for Failure on Iraq Weapons. Flashback: President Bush Announces Formation of Independent Commission...to look at American intelligence capabilities, especially our intelligence about weapons...
From News.com, Supreme Court may redefine file swapping From AP, High Court Hears Arguments on File-Sharing Technology From SCOTUSBlog, Court conflicted over file-swapping From Technology Daily, Attorneys for the entertainment industry and file-sharing companies square off in a pivotal intellectual...
From the New York Times, A Supreme Court Showdown for File Sharing. Related references...
RSS: Moving Into the Mainstream, by Randy Reichardt, Cameron Science and Technology Library, University of Alberta....
"Change in Format of Print Edition - Beginning next Thursday, as part of a reorganization of technology news coverage, the weekly Circuits pages will appear in Business Day." [Link] Bummer....
At a presentation today titled, "They Want Your Secrets: Personal Information Privacy in the Post-9/11 World, during the Emerging Issues in National and International Security conference, Valerie Caproni, General Counsel of the FBI stated in reference to issues concerning Section...
The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee report, Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization, released March 18, 2005 (72 pages, PDF) Related news from the New York Times, Study Criticizes Government on Cybersecurity Research...
Announcing BlogWiki2005 Workshop, May 19-20, 2005, Coral Gables FL Presented by: Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library; Sabrina I. Pacifici, Founder, Editor, Publisher and Web Manager of LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com; and Marcus P....
OCLC Research Publications: "This repository contains metadata for works by and about OCLC Research and, whenever possible, links to full text. The repository is under construction; it contains current publications back to 1997, all "born digital" publications, and at least...
Growth of Wireless Internet Opens New Path for Thieves...
The Google Codewebsite ("Google's place for Open Source software") indicates the launch on March 17 of two RSS feeds: "the updates feed and the featured program feed, in which we pick a great app that uses some Google tool or...
White House Defends Video News Releases Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News Related reference: GAO Report: Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)--Video News Release, B-303495, January 4, 2005: "By its own records, ONDCP's prepackaged news stories...
Following up on my post from January, Will New York Times on Web Remain Free?, more machinations on the topic of anticipated fees for online access to the Times and other papers: Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?...
Bloggers Look for "Sunshine" on Public Access to Government Documents - FreeCulture.org announces Blogshine Sunday "On March 13, news organizations across the United States will participate in "Sunshine Sunday" by running stories and editorials in support of public access to...
What is customized news?: "We've made a number of improvements to Google News that allow you to customize your News front page by creating sections that focus on topics you care about...You can also design your custom front page by...
Press release from Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV: LexisNexis investigates compromised customer IDs and passwords to Seisint U.S. consumer data. "Reed Elsevier today announced that LexisNexis, its global legal and business information business, has identified a number of...
The Pew Charitable Trusts funds Stateline.org, and this terrific resource that "provides timely, trustworthy information on state policy innovations and trends," has a new design, an updated technology platform, and additional features. The site now offers RSS feeds: three news...
The New York Times reports that Garrett M. Graff, editor of FishbowlDC, has been issued a press pass by the White House. Better yet, read Garrett's chronicle of how the events unfolded....
From the Washington Post, New Industry Helping Banks Fight Back - Sleuths Hit Online Identity Thieves With 'Takedowns,' 'Poisoning'. A patch-work of emerging technology applications are available targeted to financial services and e-commerce, seeking to address growing consumer concerns with...
What follows is a group of recent, relevant articles and documents associated with the escalating critical evaluation of database aggregation and sale of personal data and associated digital scams and ID theft. From the New York Times, Senator Says Data...
Press release, February 16, 2005: "Secretary of State Matt Brown today unveiled a groundbreaking web data-sharing initiative, which will give citizens and Rhode Island government agencies real-time, ongoing access to the databases maintained by his office. RSSonate...was developed to provide...
"Welcome to the Nooked RSS Directory (beta). You can search for corporate RSS feeds by keyword or browse the categories below. If you publish corporate RSS feeds, you can submit them to our directory." [Moonwatcher]...
AP currently has 13 newsfeeds....
The Latest Initiative in Congress: Blogging As referenced here on February 13, Rep. Pence has a blog; Sen. Patrick Leahy has been blogging since January 4, 2005; Rep. Mark Kirk launched his blog January 9, 2005; and Rep. Katherine Harris...
From NeOn, An open conversation with Michael Wiley, Director New Media, GM Communications about: "GM FastLane Blog, GM's experiments with podcasting and GM's plans for further developments with communication channels like blogs, podcasting and RSS." "We're big into getting feedback...
There are two feeds available via this Microsoft PressPass RSS Feeds link: Microsoft PressPass - Press Releases and Microsoft PressPass - Top Stories....
Health Industry Under Pressure to Computerize: "The federal government has delivered a warning to the health care industry: move into the computer age or the government will probably impose a solution." Related resources: Panel: Cultural Shift Needed to Make Health...
The New York Times sort of catches the wave on the increasingly popular new grass roots broadcasting format, in this article, Tired of TiVo? Beyond Blogs? Podcasts Are Here. Created by tech pioneers Adam Curry and Dave Winer, podcasting offers...
The Financial Times and The Economist now provide RSS feeds. The Financial Times requires a subscription to portions of its respective content, so be aware that the newsfeeds will be likewise restricted if you are not a subscriber. The paper...
From SIDEWALK/theory, a continually updated guide to the RSS feeds provided by national and local newspapers, which currently comprises an alphabetical list of 73 titles....
Reports today from MSNBC, Reuters (via CNN Money), and New.com on the theft of between 30,000 to 35,000 personal digital data profiles of California residents, which occured last fall. Related postings....
Reps. Waxman and Maloney ask for hearings on whether political considerations caused the Administration to delay release of findings by the 9/11 Commission about pre-attack warnings: "We are writing to request that our Committee hold hearings to investigate two extremely...
Commentary and newly released documents concerning national security issues prior to 9-11, from the New York Times, 9/11 Report Cites Many Warnings About Hijackings, and from the National Security Archive, 9/11 Commission Staff Report on FAA Failings Published on Web....
As a follow-up to my November 29, 2004 posting, Open Source Encyclopedia Publishers Expand Mission to Global News, a commentary on WikiNews from the New York Times....
Always Fresh: Fast Content For Library Web Site with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) [Slides PDF], by Darlene Fichter: "Keeping a library web site up to date with fresh content is a challenge for any webmaster. Learn how to publish, merge...
As a follow-up to my July 28, 2004 posting, Archivist of the U.S. Forced to Resign? the Washington Post (reg. req'd) once again addresses the issue, this time in an editoral, A New Archivist. The current status of the nomination...
As Piracy Battle Nears Supreme Court, the Messages Grow Manic Legal documents related to the case....
From the ACLU, Court Orders CIA to Comply With Request For Torture Records and the New York Times, A.C.L.U. Gains in Its Quest for C.I.A. Documents on Detainees. American Civil Liberties Union, et al., Plaintiffs, Opinion and Order Denying Application...
Law Barring Junk E-Mail Allows a Flood Instead. Another article joins the chorus complaining about the failure of the CAN-SPAM Act to stem the tide of junk email, and highlights how industry, government and advocacy groups continue to do battle...
Search Sites Play a Game of Constant Catch-Up: Google and Yahoo are in a neck and neck competition as they each launch new services at a steady pace, broadening the scope of applications available to users. See also Danny Sullivan's...
From PubSub, news that they are tracking over 8 million blogs. This represents a huge increase within the past year in the number of blogs now available. Along with this increased visibility, ethical concerns about blog content. From Radio Userland,...
From the New York Times (reg. req'd), Bush Didn't Invent the Internet, but Is He Good for Tech? James Fallows examines the continuing struggle over how and when government data, collected using taxpayer funds, is made available to the public....
"NOVA turns its lens on the timeliest developments and most intriguing personalities in science and technology in a new magazine series, NOVA scienceNOW." Subscribe to the scienceNOW RSS feed...
Almost a decade ago, PointCast was a cutting edge "push technology" that streamed updated, cutomized news feeds to your desktop. I sure liked it, although it routinely crashed my PC. Fast forward, and here is new twist on the application,...
Microsoft is done beta testing MSN search, and it is now "offically" live. Related news about MSN - Really Simple Syndication: Getting Started, is a useful guide to implementing news feeds on the My MSN service. See also MSN Removes...
New Scientist provides a roster of RSS feeds (in a choice of Atom, RSS, XML and RDF), on breaking news, topical areas including Info-Tech, Health, and Being Human, as well as a range of special reports such as Motoring Technology...
News feeds now available include: the magazine's Table of contents (current issue), News Summaries, This Week in Science, Editors' Choice, NetWatch, and ScienceNOW daily headlines. [Link to the complete newsfeeds' list]...
"Yahoo! Finance is now offering company news feeds in the RSS format. Using the RSS URL Generator (located on this page), you can construct the URL you'll need to subscribe to news about your favorite companies."...
The National Library For Health website is currently providing four topical RSS feeds: Hitting The Headlines; What's New; Document Of The Week and FocusOn. In addition, as reported by Managing Information, the site now offers a universal search feature for...
IBM press release: "IBM has pledged open access to key innovations covered by 500 IBM software patents to people and groups working on open source software. The pledge applies to any individual, community, or company working on or using software...
Yesterday I posted on recent articles and reports highlighting the expanding profile of blogs. As a follow-up to these accolades, see today's New York Times article, Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate, a critique of the merits and credibility...
AP documents the increasing influence of blogs, which are recognized as having made a significant impact this past year in reporting on breaking news events, political issues, and technology innovations, as just a few examples. In addition, the December 27,...
Terminating Spyware With Extreme Prejudice chronicles efforts to be rid of spyware and adware programs using the extreme method of reformatting a PC hard drive, after all other avenues had failed....
This article from the New York Times discusses pioneering work by Prof. R. Manmatha and colleagues to develop a digital application to read and search collections of archival, handwritten manuscripts. This software will be of tremendous value to researchers and...
Having recently been caught on a treadmill to nowhere in my quest for "customer care" and "technical support" from two major vendors for hardware issues, this New York Times article hits home. It describes the frustrations of trying to locate...
The New York Times reports on examples of how blogs are providing readers around with world with real time updates, photos and first person accounts of the earthquake in the Indian Ocean and the resulting tsumanis. Additional sources that are...
Fortune.com has an extensive article on the slippery slope effect of relying on the "viral" linking aspect of blogs to promote products, as well as highlighting recent examples of the enormous impact of bloggers' responses to instances of what they...
James Fallows reviews cutting edge work underway in the area of desktop search applications, with a focus on I.B.M.'s Unstructured Information Management Architecture Project. "An Unstructured Information Management (UIM) application may be generally characterized as a software system that analyzes...
Manybooks.net, Free eBooks for your PDA "This site contains more than 10,000 eBooks (see Project Gutenberg) formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, eBookWise-1150, or Symbian cellphone. When eBooks are added to the site they're listed on the...
AP reports that Judge Charles R. Wolle, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, awarded CIS Internet Services $1 billion in a case involving three companies accused of flooding the service with up to 10 million spam emails...
From the New York Times, The Pursuit of Knowledge, From Genesis to Google. Related reference, A Reading Diary, by the author of the article, Alberto Manguel....
A thoughtful and provocative commentary on all the hype surrounding Google's announcement this week, by Michael Gorman, dean of Library Services, California State University, Fresno, and president-elect of the American Library Association, in today's Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd). See...
From the press release: "...Google Inc. today announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from...
From e-books and audiobooks to blogs and wireless web access, America's public libraries have embraced digital technology tools to expand and diversify services to users. See this New York Times article, Libraries Reach Out, Online and while you are on...
The RSS feed for Food and Drug Administration Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts is http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml....
"A national survey of self-described artists and an online survey of 2,755 musicians find: Artists and musicians on all points of the spectrum from superstars to starving singers have embraced the internet as a tool to improve how they make,...
100 Notable Books of the Year, includes the 9/11 Commission Report. See also MPR's Winter Picks: Hidden Gems from Indie Bookstores...
According to articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times and the Boston Globe, the National Center for Education Statistics (part of the Dept. of Education) is investigating a new system to significantly broaden the collection of...
From Justin Pfister, this new site "Converts News.Google to RSS." Create a search query, indicate the number of entries to return (from 5-100) and see if it works for you....
From the New York Times, this article reviews the challenges involved in work underway by NIH, industry and providers to coordinate and implement a digital health network....
From the New York Times, The Circuits Holiday Buying Guide, covers products in the following areas: Toys and Games, Mobile Devices, Recreation, Music, Entertainment, Cameras and Video, and Home Office. See also Engadget and Gizmodo for product reviews and news....
From Wired, RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy. See also RSS in Government...
MSN Search (beta) About MSN Search Microsoft Unveils Its Internet Search Engine, Quietly Microsoft Web Searcher Isn't as Good as Google, But in Time It Could Be...
Even Digital Memories Can Fade: "So dire and complex is the challenge of digital preservation in general that the Library of Congress has spent the last several years forming committees and issuing reports on the state of the nation's preparedness...
As reported by the New York Times, a chapter comprising some 60-70 pages, submitted as part of the 9/11 Commission Report, has never been released by the administration. It focuses on airline security issues associated with the hijackings of 9/11,...
From AP, via the New York Times, Authorities Indict 19 on Online Identity Theft Charges....
From the New York Times: Plugging Into the Net, Through the Humble Wall Outlet....
This extensive examination into ID theft in America indicates that U.S. law enforcement have determined that a large proportion of these crimes are planned offshore, and that outsourcing has been a contributing factor....
David Pogue of the New York Times reviews (reg. req'd) the recently introduced, free Google Desktop Search. The author provides a witty, concise, informative narrative (he also contrasts this app with rival offerings), and if you have Real Player, you...
ABC News unveiled a completely new design for its website, which includes the use of XHTML web publishing standards, and enhanced features for users (such as Flash and RSS). The changes are extensively documented in this posting by Mike Davidson,...
This news may remind readers of Amazon's Search Inside the Book service, launched last October. But this time the source is Google, who announced that their Google Print service is no longer in testing mode: "Google's mission is to organize...
From the New York Times, Need a New Job? Check Out a Blog. "Job seekers use blogs to establish a strong online presence, display their skills and advertise their availability...Corporate recruiters, in turn, use blogs to draw in qualified candidates,...
Press release: Vivísimo Launches Clusty.com - Unique New Search Site Brings the Power of Clustering to Web Search, Shopping, People Finding, Wikipedia and More [Link] Vivísimo...today unveiled Clusty.com, the first full-service search site powered completely by breakthrough clustering technology. Instead...
From the September 30 New York Times: Panel Considers Copyright Bill Related posting, Discouraging Online Networked Trafficking Inducement Act of 2004 For reference, see also the Resource Room for the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 (formerly known as...
In his September 27 posting on the Yahoo! Search Blog, Scott Gatz from the My Yahoo! Team details the new RSS features incorporated in the redesigned My Yahoo! beta release. For additional information, see also New My Yahoo Beta, Featuring...
From WebProNews, via Search Engine Guide, this update that RocketInfo, a terrific news portal, has added a feature allowing users to create RSS feeds for specific searches. How to generate an RSS feed on RocketInfo: 1) create and run a...
September 26, 2004, Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail: Insights into the expanding profile of bloggers whose views are changing the reading habits of many readers by allowing them highly interconnected online channels through which they can satisfy their...
9/11 Panel Members Form Group to Press Recommendations See the 9/11 Discourse Project: "The ten members of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (known as the 9-11 Commission) have initiated a nationwide public education campaign for...
Barbarians at the Digital Gate...
Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic Voting Goes National "Just over six weeks before the nation holds the first general election in which touch-screen voting will play a major role, specialists agree that whatever the remaining questions about the...
Amazon's search engine, A9, released as a beta in October 2003, received its offical launch last night. See this FAQ for more information about features. Related news: A9.com To Make Searching The Internet More Effective and Amazon to Take Searches...
"The British Library is putting online 93 high-resolution digitised copies of 21 of Shakespeare's plays." [Link] "On this site you will find the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were...
"Plenty of music available online is not just free but also easily available, legal and — most important — worth hearing." [Link] Musicians, record labels, public radio stations and the Library of Congress are among the groups that provide free,...
From the Center for Democracy and Technology: "A Pennsylvania federal court today struck down a state Internet censorship law as a violation of the First Amendment. CDT had challenged the law because it had resulted in the blocking of more...
In Internet Calling, Skype Is Living Up to the Hype See also Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Opportunity Arises With New Skype Application by Chris Hayes, February 2004....
"This repository contains metadata for works by and about OCLC Research and, whenever possible, links to full text. The repository is under construction; it contains current publications back to 2001, all "born digital" publications, and at least 40% of OCLC...
Grokster and the Information Exchange...
From the Sunday, August 29 New York Times Book Review section, The 9/11 Report: A Dissent, by Richard A. Posner. Related references: The 9/11 Commission Report and 9/11 Commission Releases Two Staff Reports. A Joint Committee on Intelligence: Proposals and...
Executive Order Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community Executive Order National Counterterrorism Center Executive Order Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans Executive Order Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans Executive Order Establishing the President's...
Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review DoD Detention Operations, August 2004. (PDF, 126 pages). Related references: from the Washington Post and The New York Times....
Current DefenseLINK RSS News feeds: AFPS News Articles DoD Press Advisories DoD News Releases DoD Contract Announcements DoD Transcripts DoD Speeches...
The Call Is Cheap. The Wiretap Is Extra. Related reference from the FCC, August 4, 2004: FCC Adopts Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Declaratory Ruling Regarding Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. See also the text of the Communications Assistance...
More Is Not Necessarily Better "Few people realize that 95 percent of all Web searches in the United States are handled by two companies, Google and Yahoo, either directly or through other sites that use their technology...The influence of search...
Making a Web Search Feel Like a Stroll in the Library...
In the Classroom, Web Blogs Are the New Bulletin Boards....
Blogs: The Marketing Killer. This article reviews how major corporates are leveraging blogs and RSS feeds for marketing, collaboration and current awareness monitoring....
In Search of a Browser That Banishes Clutter According to this article only 5% of the market uses a browser other than IE, but the alternatives, such as FoxFire, are gaining new users at a rapid pace....
"Lawyers representing eight Maryland citizens today filed a petition with the state supreme court seeking to decertify or fix Diebold voting machines that computer security experts have deemed insecure. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with over a dozen organizations...
Jeremy Wagstaf's briefly annotated list of RSS Readers includes useful reader comments and suggestions about several applications that may be new to you. Take a look....
Tara (Research Buzz) is just terrific. See her posting today on keyword-specific RSS feeds from headlinenews.com. This type of feature is also available from FindForward (formulate a query and choose "Get RSS" from the drop-down menu, and you will be...
U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs hearing: Assessing America's Counterterrorism Capabilities, August 3, 2004. Link to Member Statements and Witness Testimony Related news, from the Washington Post and New York Times respectively (both requiring registration): Pre-9/11 Acts Led To Alerts...
Wry Hoaxes Enliven the World of Web Diarists...
The New York Times reports that sales of the 9/11 Commission's 567 page report, released on July 22, have reached 350,000 copies, and the authorized publisher of the book anticipates printing several hundred thousand additional copies. See also this San...
RSS Feeds: NPR News and Information Delivered to Your Desktop...
Bloggers Offer Inside View of Convention Web Diarists Are Now Official Members of Convention Press Corps Blogging Against Convention A Guide to Following Weblogs During the Conventions From the WSJ, this free feature profiles 30 credentialed bloggers at the DNC...
Correcting the Record on Sept. 11, in Great Detail...
Pentagon Finds Bush's Guard Records. This AP article states that the records located do not provide any information about the President's whereabouts the summer of 1973. In June, AP filed a FOIA lawsuit to obtain copies of all the President's...
Today's WSJ has another article on blogs (that's two this month!), Law Professor's Web Log Is Jurists' Must-Read In addition, the Journal has launched a range of RSS feeds as follows (please note - "Headlines are available to all users,...
HHS Press release: Strategic Report Outlines Steps to Implement Widespread Adoption of Electronic Health Records and New Nationwide Interoperable Health Information Network. Full-text of the report, (176 pages, PDF), The Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumer-centric and Information-rich Health...
The implementation of RSS by InfoWorld.com has caused a significant increase in hourly traffic to the site which has resulted in "some aggravating scaling issues," according to the site's CTO. [Hot Links]...
Kerry Building Legal Network for Vote Fights: both parties are implemeting legal strategies in anticipation of a possible recount in the November election. Related information: for links to "comprehensive databases on more than 40,000 candidates and incumbents," see Project Vote...
This article from TIME states that the 9/11 Commission's upcoming final report will provide information linking Iran with Al Qaeda. In addition, CNN reports that the Commission's report will be approximately 600 pages, with the text subject to review and...
"Free RSS feeds - Now you can access Alexa's Hot Search Terms, Movers & Shakers, or Top Sites with RSS." [Link]...
Today the Senate Committee on Intelligence released a report detailing intelligence failures prior to the invasion of Iraq. Report Says Key Assertions Leading to War Were Wrong Conclusions Excerpted From Full Report, Conclusion 1. Most of the major key judgments...
From the New York Times today: Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (60 pages,...
From the WSJ Personal Technology site, Blogs Can Help You Cope With Data Overload, If You Manage Them, addresses how newsreaders can help blog aficionados stay current with all the latest postings from a burgeoning community of content. Of note,...
The AALL Blog: Boston 2004 (includes RSS feed) provides program and meeting updates, info on receptions, roundtables, and links to local area resources, both practical (such as a page on Internet access in the area) and pleasurable (recommended dining, book...
Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use. Democratic campaign party websites are using open source apps, and the Republicans are using Microsoft. See also Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, (56 pages, PDF), a study by GW's...
From the New York Times: The Year Rehnquist May Have Lost His Court ACLU Summary of the 2003 Supreme Court Term: Major Civil Liberties Decisions (24 pages, PDF) Supremes Tackle Some Issues, Punt Others...
Company Plugs RSS as Alternate to E-Mail Marketing...
Libraries Choose to Filter or Not to Filter As CIPA Deadline Arrives Related news and references: Internet Filters Are: [Good] [Bad] [Both], and Supreme Court Rules Against Child Online Protection Act....
Ben Hammersley created an RSS FedEx Package Tracker....
The New York Times is now providing 28 topical RSS feeds. Examples include Campaign 2004, Circuits, NYTimes.com Home Page, Technology, and Week in Review. Related resource: From PCWorld.com, News on Demand - Tired of browsing around the Web for timely...
Rss Readers is a wiki on RSS services, tools and technology. It is an expansive, informative guide with current updates. [via Darlene Fichter]...
Experimental Listings of Watches, Warnings, and Advisories by State and Territory: "This page provides access to NWS watches, warnings and advisors, listed by state in three different formats. Select a state name to view a list of active alerts in...
The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is now providing 22 RSS feeds for its developer centers. [therssweblog]...
RSS: Grassroots Support Leads to Mass Appeal approaches evaluating RSS in the context of e-learning as well as KM, with useful resource links and additional value added by a discussion of the Open Archives Initiative. News on Demand: "Tired of...
The Changing Face of E-Mail: Speakers at the recent INBOX conference discussed a wide range of applications/solutions to address the information overload that has become an intrinsic part of enterprise email use....
The New York Time provides a useful guide to RSS and newsfeed applications, noting free and fee-based services, as well as limitations of the technology. This article is not a comprehensive review, so for more information check my previous topical...
From Dave Winer, Really Simple Syndication, Everything a non-tech user needs to know about RSS 2.0. See also RSS History and RSS resources on beSpacific, here and here....
Baltimore courthouses join wireless age. See also this press release, which states "the Baltimore City State's Attorney’s Office has joined with the Baltimore City Circuit Court to provide a wireless Internet subscription service to attorneys and courthouse visitors."...
See this page, and scroll down to locate the list of links provided to 9 different feeds, including Top Stories, Election 2004 and the latest work from TIME's columnists....
Google Blogoscoped reported on a useful new service from the search engine FindForward that allows you to enter search terms and then request that results be provided to you via an RSS feed....
J.D. Lasica evaluates a range of news readers and other related productivity enhancing applications, RSS news services, and links to newsfeeds from prominent and reliable sources....
Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?...
From the Overview portion of a report issued by the E-government Unit, State Services Commission (New Zealand), A standard for the publication of government news summaries. "This document proposes a technical standard for the publication of government agency news on...
"An experimental convertor that takes a Google News search and turns it into RSS" from Julian Bond at Voidstar resulted in a cease and desist response from Google....
Ashcroft creates task force for copyright violations (The agency press release.) Feds Crank Up Heat on P2P See also the Piracy Deterrence and Privacy Act of 2004 (H.R. 4077), "to enhance criminal enforcement of the copyright laws, to educate the...
Jenny Levine and Steven Cohen's 110 page pdf presentation, from the 2004 Computers in Libraries conference....
RSSTop55 - Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites...
From TechWorld (via Slashdot): "The US government has just bought the world's biggest ever solid state disk from Texas Memory Systems." "The 2.5TB system is the largest SSD installation in the world so far, without question, the executive VP for...
From Dave Winer's blog, this posting proposes a series of talking points on the possible merger of the RSS and Atom syndication formats....
Amazon.com Syndicated Content now provides users with the option of receiving product updates in hundreds of categories on "the top 10 bestsellers in that category," via RSS feeds....
How To Speed-Read the Net - Ditch your browser—RSS makes surfing for news a joy....
Find That Feed allows users to located RSS feeds by key word search request, "Search for a feed whose name is like..."...
From the LA Times, via BizReport, Enthusiasts Call Web Feed Next Big Thing: "The U.S. Product Safety Commission just began providing recall notices via RSS. General Motors offers feeds on topics including safety and automotive tech. And a growing number...
RSS: A Big Success In Danger of Failure: "What RSS desperately needs are enhancements that will allow users to take advantage of the breadth of RSS feeds without being buried in irrelevant information."...
"Feedster is working to ensure everyone's voice is heard by making political Feedpapers, up-to-the-minute digests of RSS-based news and blog commentary, available to all the campaigns and bloggers. In less than a minute, you can associate your blog with the...
An Introduction to RSS Feeds, by Jessica Baumgart, Winter 2004, News Library News (pdf). News Library News is the quarterly bulletin of the Special Libraries Association News Division....
Blogger, purchased by Google last year, will implement the Atom syndication publishing format, rather than RSS, the widely known application with a larger user base and significant associated documentation. See also this Blogger FAQ on Atom, as well as this...
From the RSSWinterfest blog, links to some useful resources on RSS: RSS and the Future of Internet-Based Content Syndication (free access to 18 pages, inclusive of an executive summary and an abstract of the 135 page report, $$). 2RSS.com, a...
From Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Law and Technology, the "Berkman Briefings is a reading series that provides background information about major questions related to Internet policy, technology, and law. Every month, the Briefing will cover a new topic."...
From Free Range Librarian by K. G. Schneider, Getting Started with RSS: The No-Brainer Method....
The following new articles were published this week on LLRX.com: How Dewey Classify OCLC's Lawsuit Knowledge Management is a Business Imperative The Future of RSS - Is E-Mail Publishing Dead? WTO/GATT Research Update to Introduction to the Swiss Legal System:...
RSS News Readers Browse for You identifies the top news aggregators as: FeedDemon 1.0, Feedreader 2.5, NewsGator 1.3 and SharpReader 0.9.2.1....
RSS - A Primer for Publishers & Content Providers: "This document is aimed at publishers and content providers with the intention of introducing & explaining the concepts behind RSS and addressing some commonly expressed concerns...the guidelines do provide recommendations for...
RSS and News Aggregators: What Do You Really Need To Know To Keep Up? by Steven J. Bell, Director of the Library, Paul J. Gutman Library, Philadelphia University....
Aggregators Attack Info Overload : "Maniacally wired netizens who read a hundred blogs a day and just as many news sources are turning to a new breed of software, called newsreaders or aggregators, to help them manage information overload." See...
News.com reports that the "Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is the new keeper of the specification for a popular Web log tool. The Berkman Center took over ownership of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0...
This wiki-weblog has dozens of annotated resources and links to RSS readers, including those for use on PDAs, Linux, Mac and Windows....
NY Times Archive, Weblogs and RSS Accessing the NY Times archive through their RSS feeds...
RSS Directory, from blogStreet, "contains a listing of 11,000+ RSS feeds of blogs, making it one of the largest directories of RSS. An added advantage is that the latest feeds of the listed blogs can be read through RSS Discovery...
From Declan McCullagh, Spam blockers may wreak e-mail havoc, and a series of informative postings (all available at this one link) at his Politechbot.com site, on spam blacklists/blocklists. In related news, see also: How to Unclog the Information Artery....
From Thomas R. Bruce, Co-Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: "As part of some extensive (and ongoing) renovation of our Supreme Court collection, we've added RSS feeds that offer summaries of recent decisions. There are two: http://supct.law.cornell.edu:8080/supct/rss/0.91/supct_today.rss Actually the...
Danny Sullivan presents Part II of his review of RSS services and applications that facilitate access to the continuously expanding world of news, blogs and topical information. He recommends several RSS search engines, including Feedster and rssSearch. Part I of...
OCLC Research announcements are now available via RSS 2.0....
RSS: Gateway to News and Blog Content, Part 1 This column examines how content from blogs, news sites, and other sources is distributed via RSS feeds. Feeds are a great way for anyone to receive customized new information from a...
Jenny, the Shifted Librarian, has linked to her April 9 PowerPoint presentation, Keeping Current Using RSS, from the 5th Annual Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Conference. She also provides a link to an informative workshop outline, Publish and Syndicate Your...
My previous posting on a new search engine for RSS feeds indicated the site was seeking a new name, and here it is, Feedster. See also this article, Search engines target Weblogs....
Via Slashdot, here is a new search engine for RSS feeds, whose name was briefly Roogle, but currently remains nameless so as to deflect a trademark issue....
J.D. Lasica, blogger and senior editor for the Online Journalism Review, details the advantages of the increasingly popular free and fee-based news aggregator applications in News That Comes to You. These programs allow researchers who are suffering from information overload...