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“Active Security Monitor is a software program that helps you determine how vulnerable your PC is to computer viruses, spyware and other dangers and learn what steps you can take to improve your protection. And if you have more than one PC in your home network, you can use Active Security Monitor to check the …
Fragile digital data in danger of fading past history’s reach, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (6-7-06) “Many of the records that once allowed historians to study a society’s history — from personal correspondence to government documents — may be slipping, irretrievably, into the digital ether…compared to the sturdy format of paper and books, digital information is extremely …
Center for Public Integrity, Privately Sponsored Trips Hot Tickets on Capitol Hill – Study finds almost $50 million spent on travel for lawmakers, aides “Over a 5½-year period ending in 2005, members of Congress and their aides took at least 23,000 trips valued at almost $50 million financed by private sponsors, many of …
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing: Examining DOJ’s Investigation of Journalists Who Publish Classified Information: Lessons from the Jack Anderson Case, June 6, 2006. Links to testimony and member statements Related posting, AG States Prosecution of Journalists for Leaks is Legal
Democratic Policy Committee Report on S.J. Res. 1, the Marriage Protection Amendment, June 5, 2006. Related documents and news: S.J.RES.1, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage. U.S. Senator Wayne Allard (R-Colorado) statement on June 6, 2006 regarding the Marriage Protection Amendment that is currently being …
WSJ free feature: Why Getting the User To Create Web Content Isn’t Always Progress
CBO: Monthly Budget Review June 2006
American Journalism Review: Style Wars in Cyberspace – Copy editors take to the blogosphere. “The undisputed king of copy bloggers is Bill Walsh of the Washington Post, whose cantankerous posts on language, usage and style (theslot.blogspot.com) have won him a devoted following.”
BusinessWeek.com Keeping an Eye on the Snoops: With government eavesdropping getting more aggressive, privacy safeguards need to be beefed up. Postings on domestic surveillance program
AP reports Google plans to release a beta spreadsheet program on June 6, via the Google Labs site. “Google Spreadsheets allows you to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web. For those of you who already struggle to organize multiple versions of spreadsheets and other data and lists, Google Spreadsheets is a great solution…” …
Federalism, Democratic Values and the Federal Marriage Amendment: “This morning the Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Cato Institute, welcomed the perspectives of four legal experts on the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) up for vote in the Senate this week. The panelists were Dale Carpenter, law professor at the University of Minnesota; Louis …
Department of State Fact Sheet: “The Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL), launched on May 3, 2006, is a digital portal that provides Iraqi universities and research institutes with access to an outstanding collection of millions of full text articles from over 17,000 premier scientific and engineering journals and their archives, in addition to technical content …
