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“KatrinaHealth.org, an online service to help individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina work with their health professionals to gain access to their own electronic prescription medication records. Through KatrinaHealth.org authorized pharmacists and doctors can get records of medications evacuees were using before the storm hit, including the specific dosages.”
From Reporters Without Borders, a new resource: Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents (46 pages, PDF): “Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest. Reporters Without Borders has produced this …
A complaint was filed against Google in US District Court, Southern District of New York, for copyright infringement, involving the Google Print program. Related links: Press release: Authors Guild Sues Google, Citing “Massive Copyright Infringement” Google’s blog posting about the lawsuit. BusinessWeek.com’s commentary Topical postings from beSpacific The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright Analysis, …
From WSJ free contents, Walt Mossberg’s September 21 column reviews several communications tools that consumers may want to consider purchasing to facilitate uninterrupted communications during emergencies.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers published a White Paper, Hurricane Katrina: Reconstruction Through Mitigation (6 pages, PDF) which merits review. Also note that the organization’s Hurricane Katrina Resource Page provides links to key government resources with a focus on “policy, recovery and economics.”
The legislative history of the Postal Rate Commission enabling statute is available on the agency website. To locate it, look at the top of the homepage navigation bar, and click on ARCHIVES. This in turn will take you to this page, where the database hosting the legislative history is located. In addition to this resource, …
Press release: “Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein announced today several initiatives to aid in the recovery of original records in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana that have been affected by Hurricane Katrina…[he stated] the potential loss of information that directly affects the lives of people in these states is staggering. The …
From BusinessWeek.com, Editor’s Picks for Best of the Web, with a discrete number of choices in categories ranging from research, to blogs, tech news, politics, shopping and music.
The September 14 launch of William M. Arkin’s blog, “Early Warning”, with its focus on “national and homeland security,” was noted by Secrecy News for establishing what promises to be a significant and useful online archive of government documents not readily available otherwise. See also Arkin’s book, Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and …
“The Hurricane Katrina News Directory is a safety information initiative of SafetyIssues.com. Powered by Google News.” Related links: Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Still to be Learned, by Stephen Heath Thibeault, Media Reaction Editor, U.S. Department of State – “This report summarizes and interprets foreign editorial opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. …
Press release: “Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), the service that allows users to obtain case information online from federal courts, now has over 500,000 user accounts. The half-million figure was reached in early September.”
Today the members of the Commission on Federal Election Reform released the Final Commission Report: Building Confidence in U.S. Elections (113 pages, PDF). Individual sections of the report may be downloaded using this table of contents. Related links: Help America Vote Act beSpacific links on e-voting
