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Press release from New York Senator Charles Schumer: “Today, Sen. Chuck Schumer sent the attached letter to President Bush asking him to detail his conversations with his top political adviser, Karl Rove, about the White House’s leak of the identity of covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame.” Related news, from the New York Times: No Final …
Reuters via CNN International: Publishers throw book at Google Related documents and links: Complaint (FindLaw, 36 pages, PDF), McGraw-Hill Companies, et al. v. Google, Inc., October 19, 2005. beSpacific postings on Google Print Program The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project
Executive Summary from the Guidewire Group Market Cycle Survey, October 2005: Blogging in the Enterprise (8 pages, PDF) Key findings (140 individual survey respondents): “Corporations of all sizes across a wide array of industries are adopting blogging technologies and practices. 89% of respondents are either blogging or are planning to blog.” “Smaller companies have been …
Yahoo! White Paper on RSS (12 pages, PDF)
From the Wall Street Journal free content today: ‘Splogs’ Roil Web, and Some Blame Google. Definition of splog from Wikipedia.
From the New York Times (reg. req’d), links to the following documents in PDF: Senate Judiciary Committee’s Questionnaire (57 pages, PDF) 1989 Questionnaire From Texans United for Life (2 pages, PDF) Financial Statement/Net Worth (2 pages, PDF) Financial Disclosure Report – Nomination Filing (6 pages, PDF) From AP: Disclosure forms of Supreme Court nominee Harriet …
As reported by Stars and Stripes today, “On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps blocked all access to commercial e-mail services, such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, America Online and Google, from overseas government computers…The block includes access to e-mail services from computers at base libraries and liberty centers that are connected to an official government …
House Report 109-226: A Citizen’s Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 To Request Government Records (85 pages, PDF), September 20. 2005.
“Microsoft has teamed up with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to help increase Internet security through a month-long awareness-raising campaign that provides information and sponsored events for consumers, small businesses, educators, and families. This year, the National Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign begins October 1, 2005…Events for this year’s campaign include conferences and workshops …
“What level of budgetary resources might be needed in the long term to execute the Administration’s current plan for defense, and what effect on that level would alternative defense plans have? This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper addresses those questions.” (The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans and Alternatives: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2006 …
On June 23, 2005 I posted Privacy and Consumer Groups Oppose Collection of Student Info For DoD Database. As a follow-up, today news that a coalition of 100 groups sent a letter to Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld requesting that he discontinue the Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies (JAMRS) Recruiting Database, which they state was …
From the National Security Archives press release today: “The National Security Archive today posted a series of declassified U.S. intelligence documents and other U.S. agency reports on Saddam Hussein’s human rights abuses, one of which is the subject of the first trial of Saddam which begins tomorrow in Iraq.” The documents span the period from …
