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Via Official Google Blog: “…the new Blog Alert, which notifies you about new blog search results. We’ve also added a Comprehensive Alert, which can show results from multiple sources (including Google News, the web, and blogs) so you get fuller information whenever your favorite topics appear online.”
Unclassified Text of the Executive Summary from (Classified) Report No. D-2007-01 “Information Operations in Southwest Asia,” October 6, 2006 [released October 20, 2006].
“About 4,000 government websites now are registered with .gov domain names, according to Stephen P. Wardius of the GSA Center for Information Infrastructure, which manages the .gov domain registration program. Almost half belong to federal organizations, and half belong to state and local governments. There are 86 Native Sovereign Nation .gov domain names.”
Effective October 25, 2006 the public may request records from state and local agencies [“any New York State or municipal department, board, bureau, division, commission, committee, public authority, public corporation, council, office or other governmental entity performing a governmental or proprietary function is subject to the Law”], via email in New York. See the Freedom …
Press release: “Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released tips for bloggers who want the inside story on government agencies. The Bloggers’ FAQ on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) outlines how to use open government laws to get access to records kept by federal agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the …
Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General Audit: A Complete Certification and Accreditation is Needed to Ensure the Electronic Fraud Detection System Meets Federal Government Security Standards, September 29, 2006. (24 pages, PDF)
Council on Foreign Relations: “Five years after President Bush created the Office of Homeland Security, CFR.org sat down with Stephen E. Flynn, the Council on Foreign Relations’ top homeland security expert, to evaluate the effectiveness of that office. What follows is a report card, grading the Department of Homeland Security on some of its primary …
“The 2006 State and Metropolitan Area Data Book features more than 1,500 data items for the United States and individual states, counties and metropolitan areas from a variety of sources…topics include age, agriculture, births, business establishments, communications, construction, cost of living, crime, deaths, education, elections, employment, energy, finance, government, health and households. Also, housing, immigration, …
SearchSystems.net Public Records Directory added a category for Legislation in July, allowing users to browse and/or search state legislation and legislators [mix of free and fee-based access].
New Search (BETA): “For the first time you can search the largest sections of the Library’s site from one search box.” Search individually or collectively, the following content: U.S. historical and cultural collections (American Memory); Library of Congress Online Catalog; Prints & Photographs Online Catalog; Library of Congress Web site.
Justice Department: 2006 Forfeiture and Money-Laundering Manuals “All three manuals come from the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Criminal Division, US Department of Justice. They were released earlier this year to researcher Michael Ravnitzky. These manuals are related to – in some cases, updated versions of – the documents that the Justice Department ordered …
“One Day in History is a one off opportunity for you to join in a mass blog for the national record. We want as many people as possible to record a ‘blog’ diary which will be stored by the British Library as a historical record of our national life. You can enter your diary of …
