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Manybooks.net, Free eBooks for your PDA “This site contains more than 10,000 eBooks (see Project Gutenberg) formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, eBookWise-1150, or Symbian cellphone. When eBooks are added to the site they’re listed on the Recent Additions page.” [via Hot Links] Users may browse the site by Authors, Titles, Categories, …
Expanding E-Government, Partnering for a Results-Oriented Government “Our goal is to be the best manager, innovator and user of information, services and information systems in the world. There are great opportunities to apply existing and emerging business best practices to government to achieve increases in productivity and delivery of services and information. We will be …
Robert J. Ambrogi highlights 13 websites, launched this past year, that merit your review, including an online legal bookstore, an e-discovery resource, a new meta-search engine, and a collection of historical documents on the civil rights movement.
From the FTC, Telemarketers Required to “Scrub” Their Call Lists Every 31 Days Beginning January 1, 2005. “Beginning January 1, 2005, the Federal Trade Commissions Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) will require telemarketers to access the National Do Not Call Registry and purge newly-registered numbers from their call lists every 31 days. The TSR currently requires …
Press release: “The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School is now offering free details on high-profile cases before they are argued and ruled on by the Supreme Court…the analyses of upcoming Supreme Court cases are put together by a team of Cornell Law School students…Brief summaries of key upcoming Supreme Court case …
AP reports that Judge Charles R. Wolle, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, awarded CIS Internet Services $1 billion in a case involving three companies accused of flooding the service with up to 10 million spam emails per day.
From the New York Times, The Pursuit of Knowledge, From Genesis to Google. Related reference, A Reading Diary, by the author of the article, Alberto Manguel.
From Lois C. Ambash, news of her current project, InfoYou, which “is an instrument for assessing and addressing information overload. Based on many people’s responses, the InfoYou questionnaire is designed to yield personalized information tool kits to help people and organizations tame information overload according to their own styles and preferences for dealing with information.” …
From the National Security Archive: “Today, President Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act, establishing the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and ending the 57-year reign of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) as the nation’s chief intelligence officer. Throughout those 57 years, similar reorganization proposals have emerged from inside and …
From C-SPAN, a 7 part series that commenced November 15, 2004 and continues through March 2005, that “examine(s) how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified. The goal is to educate the public on the what the digital age means to their lives.”
A thoughtful and provocative commentary on all the hype surrounding Google’s announcement this week, by Michael Gorman, dean of Library Services, California State University, Fresno, and president-elect of the American Library Association, in today’s Los Angeles Times (reg. req’d). See also this related San Francisco Chronicle article, ‘Googleizing’ libraries won’t replace books. In addition, more …
press release: blinkx TV makes hours of TV content fully searchable from your PC What is blinkx TV?: “blinkx TV allows you to search the web for video and audio clips. Unlike other search providers, blinkx TV not only lets you search using standard keyword and Boolean queries but you can also use conceptual search.” …
