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White House press release: President Outlines Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts “The vast majority of New Orleans, Louisiana is under water. Tens of thousands of homes and businesses are beyond repair. A lot of the Mississippi Gulf Coast has been completely destroyed. Mobile is flooded. We are dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in …
GPO’s “What’s New” website updates which provide links to full-text versions of significant government documents, is now also available via an RSS feed.
From GPO Access: “A number of Federal depository libraries were in the path of Hurricane Katrina. While it is too early to gauge the impact of this horrendous storm on those institutions, GPO is committed to helping our depository partners recover in any way that we can.” Federal Depository Libraries: Hurricane Katrina Aftermath
Yet another follow-up to my previous postings on this issue here and here; see this statement, Google Print Library Position ‘Backwards’: Copyright holder should not have to opt-out, from the Text and Academic Author’s Association past president. See also Writer Groups Not Backing Down In Fight With Google
The Washington Post reported today (reg. req’d) on a new e-government initiative that is worth noting. Through the efforts of seven Democratic Senators (Barbara A. Mikulski, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Mary L. Landrieu, Debbie Stabenow, Maria Cantwell, and Hillary Clinton), this website, Ask John Roberts, provides a voice to citizens to communicate their questions about …
FirstGov has posted a new website that includes the following topical areas which in turn include numerous useful links: What To Do If You Are A Victim; How To Help Victims; and Disaster Cleanup and Agency Resources. NOAA Atlantic Hurricane Searchable Database, with interactive maps of Atlantic hurricanes since 1900 From National Geographic, A Photo …
WSJ free feature: Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers.
“EPIC has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a rulemaking to enhance security safeguards for individuals’ calling records. The petition follows a complaint concerning the illegal sale of personal information obtained from telephone carriers, and an updated filing where EPIC identified 40 websites that openly offer to obtain calling records without the knowledge and …
As a follow-up to my posting on July 27, Commentary on the Genesis and Evolution of the Web, this CNN article, The Internet: What lies ahead? by Daniel Sieberg, includes an online interview with Vint Cert, who states “that 90 percent of all applications on the Internet have yet to be invented.”
Press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union today sent a letter to ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing “deep concern” over Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ record and urging the Senate to fully consider his legal and judicial philosophy, his approach to decision-making, and his possible impact on the role of the court …
Reuters reported on a WSJ article focused on the SEC’s ongoing enforcement proceedings against Morgan Stanley which may now include a civil penalty in excess of $10 million for not retaining relevant e-mail.
New York Governor Pataki signed the Information Security Breach and Notification Act on August 22. It “requires any state agency or business which owns or licenses a computerized database which includes vulnerable personal information shall disclose any breach of security of such system to any resident of New York state whose unencrypted personal information may …
