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From the New York Review of Books, this letter, Blocked, signed by a distinguished group of authors, journalists and researchers, responding to the CIA’s refusal to produce copies of documents in response to a FOIA lawsuit under the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Act. [thanks Mike] Related reference: The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection …
According to a new report, online newspaper readership reached a highpoint in May 2005, with almost 44 million unique visits to a range of sites which accounted for about 30% of users online at both home and office.
A forthcoming report from New Media & Society, Multiple Presents: How Search Engines Re-write the Past, by Iina Hellsten, Loet Leydesdorff, and Paul Wouters (available in PDF, 28 pages). “Internet search engines function in a present which changes continuously. The search engines update their indices regularly, overwriting Web pages with newer ones, adding new pages …
The Coalition of Journalists for Open Government has issued two new reports, one of which addresses overall federal agency responsiveness to FOIA requests (the overwhelming majority of which come from the public not the media), and the second which provides a review of FOIA litigation decisions during the period of 1999 through 2004. The combined …
Press release from RSA Security: “A survey released [yesterday]…showed that despite widespread fears of fraudulent activity and identity theft consumers are willing to increase the amount of personal business they do online if their banks and other online service providers offer them strong authentication.”
CIO Today published a three part series, Google Has Your Data: Should You Be Afraid?, that offers perspectives on the growing tension between the expanding public and government demand for quick and easy access to a range of personal data, and concerns about how the ubiquity of such data impacts consumer privacy. Links to the …
Federal Computer Week reported that THOMAS will soon offer users a significant improvement in search capabilities with the addition of “browse navigation that can access content across different systems contained within the Thomas Web site.” [Peggy Garvin] Redesign of the site has been underway for some time now, with incremental improvements released to the public …
“Simply Hired and Indeed, upstarts less than a year old, are getting attention for their Google-like approach to helping people find jobs. They do for job listings what Google does for general information — crawl or “scrape” listings from thousands of sites and create a free, searchable index in one spot.” [Link] Duo’s search engine …
Smith, Thomas A.C., The Web of Law (Spring 2005). San Diego Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-11. “I present in this article the preliminary results of a significant citation study of nearly four million American legal precedents, which was undertaken at my request by the LexisNexis corporation using the Shepard’s citation service. This study demonstrates …
LC press release: “The Library of Congress has launched a new public Web site to cover the groundbreaking work of a special independent committee. By 2006, this committee will recommend changes to copyright law that recognize the need for exceptions to the law for libraries and archives in the digital age. The site offers the …
From the Yahoo! Search Blog, details about new features launched last night on Yahoo! Local: “..city pages…built for every city, neighborhood, and zip across the US of A…highlight upcoming events, top user recommendations for restaurants and other favorite local spots — all neatly plotted on a map of your city or neighborhood…other upgrades [include] comprehensive …
Following up on my July 27, 2005 posting, Web Archives Provide Sources for Discovery, see this Article of the week from Lawyers Weekly USA: Lawyers Are Turning To Old Websites For Evidence, available free. [note: this article will be archived one week after publication date].
