Day archives: September 13th, 2008

New Findings Provide Clearest Picture Yet of How Enrollees in the World Trade Center Health Registry Were Affected by 9/11

News release: “A new analysis from the World Trade Center Health Registry provides the most comprehensive picture yet of how 9/11 affected enrollees’ physical and mental health two to three years after the disaster. The report – released by the Health Department in the Journal of Urban Health, also includes the first estimates of respiratory …

Subjects: Government Documents

Open Source Tobacco Wiki Research Project

“Welcome to TobaccoWiki, the online research project to which anyone can contribute. We need your help to mine the millions of pages of previously-secret, internal tobacco industry documents now posted on the Internet. The purpose of Tobaccowiki is to make it easier to find information about tobacco industry behavior, and to reveal what has been …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Wiki

ACLU Voices Concerns About New New FBI Guidelines To Prevent Terror

New York Times: “The Justice Department made public on Friday a plan to expand the tools the Federal Bureau of Investigation can use to investigate suspicions of terrorism inside the United States, even without any direct evidence of wrongdoing. Justice Department officials said the plan, which is likely to be completed by the end of …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

WSJ: Why Libraries Are Back in Style

WSJ (no fee) – Why Libraries Are Back in Style: “In the latest annual National Association of Home Builders consumer survey, 63% of home buyers said they wanted a library or considered one essential, a percentage that has been edging up for the past few years. Many mass-market home builders are including libraries in their …

Subjects: Libraries

Cmte. on Homeland Security: Giving a Voice to Open Source Stakeholders: A Survey of State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement

Giving a Voice to Open Source Stakeholders: A Survey of State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement, Majority Staff Report, September 2008. “Open source intelligence products can and should be shared with appropriate Federal, State, local and tribal law enforcement, and the private sector because of their unclassified nature. Unfortunately, DHS has not effectively exploited this …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legislation