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The Christian Science Monitor reports on growing concerns about privacy issues related to vehicle event data recorders (EDRs) or “black boxes” (although they are apparently grey in color). Vehicle manufacturers are currently not subject to uniform standards regarding the data this equipment gathers. However, information collected from the EDRs often plays a prominent role in …
James Fallows reviews cutting edge work underway in the area of desktop search applications, with a focus on I.B.M.’s Unstructured Information Management Architecture Project. “An Unstructured Information Management (UIM) application may be generally characterized as a software system that analyzes large volumes of unstructured information (text, audio, video, images, etc.) to discover, organize and deliver …
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“RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 44 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.” (there are currently 193,000 items in the database)
From FindLaw: “JENKINS & GILCHRIST, P.C. v. STUART DWORK “HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS VACATION, or RESPONSE TO REQUEST TO IGNORE VACATION LETTER” (December 20, 2004) The Legal Brief From A Dallas Law Firm Representing Plaintiff’s Law Firm, Criticizing Opposing Counsel For: 1) Allegedly Ignoring A Letter From Plaintiff’s Lawyers Advising That They Would Be …
Digitizing books: A mountainous task for Google Major collections readied for online, one page at a time.
As a followup to my December 22 posting, Human Rights Group Submits FOIA Request for Docs. on Detainees, this Washington Post (reg. req’d) editorial from December 23, War Crimes.
From the Uk Guardian, Iraq’s library struggles to rise from the ashes -Remains of national history are slowly pieced together.
On the extreme right hand side of the Library Journal homepage, there are links to The Books Most Borrowed in U.S. Libraries – Fiction and The Books Most Borrowed in U.S. Libraries – Nonfiction. The lists are compiled weekly.
From EPIC, Top Ten Consumer Privacy Resolutions.
Whats Next for Google, by Charles H. Ferguson: “Google seeks to become the gatekeeper for not only the public Web but also the “dark” or hidden Web of private databases, dynamically generated pages, controlled-access sites, and Web servers within organizations (estimated to be tens or even hundreds of times larger than the public Web); the …
Press release: “Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins, R-Me., and Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., released Wednesday a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report showing that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other federal agencies have made progress in implementing key provisions of the E-Government Act of 2002 but have failed to carry out …
