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Legal Times – free article – You Read It Here First? What’s new about blogs covering trials is also old. What’s daring is often dicey. by James McGrath Morris, Legal Times, February 26, 2007.
February 12, 2007 press release: “The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has issued a new document that provides guidance and direction to develop an overall baseline for common geospatial standards used to share, manipulate, and exploit digital geospatial data. (NGA0701)” Geospatial Intelligence Standards: Enabling a Common Vision , November 2006.
How Easy Is It to Search the Complete Archives of the New York Times Online? by Thomas Padilla.
Follow up to postings on FDA’s review of cloned animal safety issues, via Chews Wise, Top U.S. Dairy Bans Milk From Clones: “…The top U.S. dairy company, Dean Foods, has adopted a policy statement banning milk from cloned cows…” [Charles Margulis, Center for Food Safety]
Follow-up to my February 22, 2007 posting New Report Shows No Precedent for Mass U.S. Attorney Firings, see this related Washington Post article, February 24, 2007, Justice Department Fires 8th U.S. Attorney: “An eighth U.S. attorney announced her resignation yesterday, the latest in a wave of forced departures of federal prosecutors who have clashed with …
FindSounds – Search the Web for Sounds – “…free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web.”
“OpenStreetMap is an free and open collaborative map of the entire world. We gather GPS tracks and draw maps over them, in an editable wiki style database. And recently we added aerial imagery to our toolbox, thanks to Yahoo!, so dense urban areas and remote locations can be mapped just by tracing streets in the …
Via Marcus P. Zillman, news of his latest Awareness Watch Newsletter, on Script Resources. “Resources for scripts, codes and programming languages on the Internet continue to expand at a very rapid rate especially with the developments in the Web 2.0, MashUps, and the constant creation of new applications which of course foster new scripts.”
PTO Direct was created by intellectual property professionals for intellectual property professionals and their clients. Its purpose is to provide an efficient way to search, gather and share relevant intellectual property record information from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office. PTO Direct provides free patent searches.” [Ted McClure]
New LC Country Profile of Colombia, February 23, 2007.
Deloitte Telecommunications Predictions 2007 (TMT Trends 2007) – “This study examines 10 emerging developments sure to make 2007 another eventful year for the telecommunications industry”: 1. “Reaching the limits of cyberspacegrowth in video traffic on the “superhighway” means the Internet is approaching gridlock. 2. The net neutrality debate needs resolutionthe Internet, fundamental freedom for all …
Follow up to previous postings on calls for judicial pay raises, “the top lawyers at 60 major U.S. corporations have urged congressional leaders to provide a “substantial increase to the salaries of federal judges.” Letter text, February 15, 2007.
