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Follow-up to posting yesterday, Gallup Internet Poll Reports E-mail Remains Dominant With Blogs Making Decent Showing, related news and statistics on the State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth.
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Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, AG Alberto R. Gonzales Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Cmte. Today, the following transcript of the AG’s answers to Sen. Specter’s questions (11 pages, PDF), via CDT. Related references: New York Times: Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry Posting by Sen. Russ Feingold in response to AG Gonzales testimony Editor …
H.R. 4659/P.L. 109-170 – To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of such Act. (Feb. 3, 2006; 120 Stat. 3; 1 page).
Press release: Mail and News Are Main Internet Attractions Some e-commerce picking up; blogs still marginal, by Lydia Saad: “A recent Gallup Poll examining Americans’ online habits finds e-mail use almost universal among the three-quarters of U.S. adults who use the Internet. Checking the news and weather ranks second on the list of 13 Internet …
Whose Credit Report is it, Anyway? It’s Time for States to Pass Credit Freeze Laws that Give Consumers Control Over their Credit Profiles, by Anita Ramasastry.
Following up on February 4, 2006 posting, VP Informed Libby About Plame Identity, Michael Isikoff reports The CIA Leak: Plame Was Still Covert. From February 2005 opinion written by U.S. Circuit Judge David S. Tatel (via No Quarter): “As to the leaks harmfulness, although the record omits specifics about Plame’s work, it appears to confirm, …
Follow-up to February 2, 2006 posting, Commentary on Forces Competing to Determine “Digital Destiny”, this related article from the UK Times Onlines – Rumours mount over Google’s internet plan, by Benjamin Cohen: “Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by …
Declan McCullagh reports: “A survey by CNET News.com has identified 15 large telecom and Internet companies that are willing to say that they have not participated in the NSA surveillance program, as well as another 12 that declined to reply.” Postings on domestic surveillance
Good Fences Make Bad Broadband – Preserving an Open Internet through Net Neutrality, 2006/02/06, A Public Knowledge White Paper, by John Windhausen, Jr.: “This paper analyzes the Net Neutrality debate in more detail. The paper is divided into four parts…Part I is a reference guide on the Net Neutrality issue; Part II makes the case …
Trial of Saddam Hussein: “This website is intended to provide the viewer with essential information related to the relevant trials. It will also set out a selection of reference materials that will further explain important aspects of the trials. In making this selection, the Law Library of Congress does not endorse or attest to the …
