Day archives: March 5th, 2010

New GAO Reports: Cybersecurity, Recovery Act, Food Safety

Cybersecurity: Progress Made but Challenges Remain in Defining and Coordinating the Comprehensive National Initiative, GAO-10-338, March 05, 2010 Recovery Act: California’s Use of Funds and Efforts to Ensure Accountability, GAO-10-467T, March 05, 2010 Food Safety: FDA Should Strengthen Its Oversight of Food Ingredients Determined to Be Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), GAO-10-246, February 03, 2010

Subjects: Cybercrime, Government Documents, Legislation, PC Security

WSJ: Top Cleantech Companies

“In The Wall Street Journal’s first survey of venture-backed clean technology companies, three makers of solar cells came out on top: Solyndra Inc. of Fremont, Calif.; Suniva Inc. of Norcross, Ga.; and eSolar Inc. of Pasadena, Calif. The rankings, announced Thursday at the Journal’s ECO:Nomics Executive Conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., seek to identify those …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Jonathan Band's Chart of Possible Google Book Search Settlement Results

Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search: “Now that the fairness hearing on the Google Books Settlement has occurred, it is up to Judge Chin to decide whether the proposed settlement is “fair, reasonable, and adequate.” The attached chart attempts to diagram some of the possible paths forward. Notwithstanding the complexity of the …

Subjects: Copyright, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines