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As a follow-up to my recent posting about Dennis Hamilton’s new article, Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?, I suggested the monikers enterpriselogs, enterlogs, or even enterpriseblogs to describe blogs behind the corporate firewall. MrDave’s Blog! has a related posting I recommend, IntraBlog – the next wave?. Other suggestions welcome! [thanks Claudia]
From research guru Marcus P. Zillman, news that his terrific Finding People Info blog has been completely updated, as he has published a new, free white paper, Knowledge Discovery Resources 2005.
Announcing BlogWiki2005 Workshop, May 19-20, 2005, Coral Gables FL Presented by: Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library; Sabrina I. Pacifici, Founder, Editor, Publisher and Web Manager of LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com; and Marcus P. Zillman, Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library and VPL Blogosphere. Where: University of Miami, …
OCLC Research Publications: “This repository contains metadata for works by and about OCLC Research and, whenever possible, links to full text. The repository is under construction; it contains current publications back to 1997, all “born digital” publications, and at least 75% of OCLC Research’s corpus of work. A complete bibliography is available at http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2000-2009.htm. In …
Press release today: “The National Security Archive today filed (108 pages, PDF) suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of the Air Force for a pattern and practice of mishandling scores of FOIA requests. The suit alleges that the Air Force fails to acknowledge FOIA requests, loses …
Growth of Wireless Internet Opens New Path for Thieves
From Slate, The Age of Missing Information – The Bush administration’s campaign against openness. Formal Statement, J. William Leonard, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration, before the Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, March 2, 2005: “Classification is an important …
Keyloggers Foiled In Attempted $423 Million Bank Heist Related reference: keystroke logger
The new AP and Freedom of Information website includes links to FOI news stories from AP, an interactive guide to filing FOI requests, a list of links to FOI resources, and a Q&A with AP’s CEO, Tom Curley, who states: “As we have reported, government at all levels is restricting access to information. We in …
The Google Codewebsite (“Google’s place for Open Source software”) indicates the launch on March 17 of two RSS feeds: “the updates feed and the featured program feed, in which we pick a great app that uses some Google tool or api.”
AP reported today that “Americans made more than 4 million requests to the federal government under the Freedom of Information Act in 2004, a new high for requests in a single year.” Related references from EPIC: Freedom of Information Act Gallery “highlights some of the most significant documents we obtained this year.” “…EPIC FOIA Notes, …
Press release today:Westlaw Ends SSN Sales to Private Companies, Greatly Limits Sale to Law Enforcement, Other Public Agencies: “After meeting with top executives last night, Sen. Charles Schumer (NY) announced today that Westlaw would be taking major steps to close large loopholes in its data search systems which previously allowed access to millions of Social …
