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Top Etailers’ Compliance With CAN-SPAM’s Opt-Out Provisions: A Report by the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Marketing Practices (July 2005). Text of the Commission Report (7 pages, PDF) News Release
Congress Crafts National Tech Recycling Plan – “Bipartisan effort studies for standard way to dispose of obsolete gadgets safely.” Related reference: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Subcommittee on Superfund and Waste Management, An Oversight Hearing on Electronics Waste, July 26, 2005. Link to member statements and witness testimony. Electronic Waste Responsibilities Loom …
From Inc.com, The Top 10 Things You Should Know Before You Blog offers practical and sound tips to assist small businesses in the effective and successful creation and maintenance of blogs to communicate with consumers.
Facts and Figures About Your Community: “This page provides links to facts on the environment, health, science, travel, and more.” “Check today’s ozone levels in your town; get a health profile of your state; check the average price of a home and current mortgage rates; check your state’s reading and math test scores.”
“Business Readiness Ratings (BRR) is being proposed as a new standard model for rating open source software. It is intended to enable the entire community (enterprise adopters and developers) to rate software in an open and standardized way. BRR is a community initiative that is being sponsored by Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source …
ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline, Volume 14, Number 73, August 1, 2005 “Late on Friday, July 29, the final day before its summer recess, the Senate passed S. 1389 (the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005) on unanimous consent (no debate, no amendments, no roll call vote). The bill adds to …
An article in today’s New York Times spotlights a website called HopStop.com, an online transit guide that “provides door-to-door subway and bus directions and maps for New York City.”
The Sniffer vs. the Cybercrooks
“The OCLC Research DeweyBrowser prototype allows users to search and browse collections of library resources organized by the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).”
PowerPoint presentations prepared by Lee Nemchek, Larry Eiring, and Ganesh Natarajan, and a 3-page outsourcing bibliography (in Word), from the PLL-sponsored program entitled “Outsourcing: Odious or Out-of-the-Box [Link to all these materials].
From the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property July 18, 2005 – H. Rept. 109-174, part 1 to Accompany H.R. 3199, USA PATRIOT Act and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2005 (510 pages, PDF) See also this committee bibliography of links on the USA Patriot Act.
The topic of e-fax continues to be of interest according to legal listserv postings, so this new PC Magazine article, Internet Faxing Reaches the Mainstream, may be of assistance to those who have yet to settle on a specific application.
