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DOJ press release: “The Justice Department today announced that on March 6, 2007, it will monitor municipal elections in Azusa, Gardena, Paramount, and Rosemead, Calif., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act. Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the Office of Personnel Management to send federal observers to …
“Taxpayers have until Tuesday, April 17, 2007 to file their federal returns with the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Federal tax returns are typically due on April 15, but in 2007, April 15 falls on a Sunday and April 16 is Emancipation Day, a legal holiday in the District of Columbia. Some printed IRS …
Press release: “…the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a report that concludes that the distributors of five popular filesharing programs repeatedly deployed features that they knew or should have known could cause users to share files inadvertently. The report, Filesharing Programs and “Technological Features to Induce Users to Share, …
SFGate.com reports that on April 7, Jackson County Oregon will closed “its entire public library system…as the 15 libraries serving this rural forest community lost $7 million in federal funding this year — nearly 80 percent of the system’s budget.” See the Jackson County Library Information blog for postings, inclusive of this information: “The final …
March 1, 2007 press release: “The Bush Administration today delivered to Congress the 2007 Trade Policy Agenda and the 2006 Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program. The report details the many benefits of trade for U.S. manufacturers, farmers, ranchers, service providers, workers, and consumers; reviews the Administrations …
Homeland Security Advisory Council Members – Names and Bios.
From the transcript of the President’s Radio Address, released March 2, 2007: “As we work to improve conditions at Walter Reed, we’re also taking steps to find out whether similar problems have occurred at other military and veterans hospitals. So I’m announcing that my Administration is creating a bipartisan Presidential Commission to conduct a comprehensive …
“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 unsubscribe to the feed when you are done…Amazon.com doesn’t advertise it, but they have a …
Web Site Owners May Get Tougher to Find – Proposal could aid infringers on the Net, by Lynne Marek, The National Law Journal: ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – is considering a new policy that will allow domain name holders to keep their registration information private.” EPIC Supports Privacy for WHOIS …
“Browse and search is a new way of browsing and searching pages from books in a Web browser using a “widget.” Thousands of titles are available for browsing and searching and are denoted as such with the “Browse and Search” icon. To get started right away, you can search the Random House catalog for any …
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 most dailies survive the transition, my guess is that in twenty-five years they will be …
Testimony of Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, CSAIL Decentralized Information Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet – Hearing on the “Digital Future of the United States: Part I — The Future of the World Wide Web”, March 1, 2007: “Digital …
