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Via Managing Information.com, this news about the launch of LexisNexis Butterworths. Use this link for information on content available through this subscription based service (from the menu on left hand side of the page, choose Content).
Press release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) capped its historic victory in a copyright abuse case against electronic voting machine manufacturer Diebold today. The corporation agreed to pay $125,000 in damages and fees…Diebold is the first company to be held liable for violating section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes it …
“National Annenberg Election Survey of 2000 was the largest academic election poll ever conducted, and the 2004 survey will match it in size, with a total of about 100,000 interviews. Polling began in October, 2003 and will continue until after the election in November 2004. The survey examines a wide range of political attitudes about …
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The multi-talented Robert Ambrogi (lawyer, author, blogger, Director of WritersforLawyers), published a new column, Web Watch: Intellectual Property Blogs (in Law Technology News, reg. req’d), which he then promptly updated on his blog.
Subscription-based EDGAR Online announced an “alliance” with Hitachi that will expand their content to include data on Japanese public companies, in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format. [thanks to d.c.]
From the Institute for Applied Autonomy, this information on one of their projects: “iSee is a web-based application charting the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can find routes that avoid these cameras (“paths of least surveillance”) allowing them to walk around their cities without fear of being …
From the ABAJournal.com, In Google We Trust? Critics Question How Much Judges, Lawyers Should Rely on Internet Search Results.
From the FAQ: “Google Desktop Search is…a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you’ve viewed. Search email from Outlook 2000+ and Outlook Express 5+ Search files in TXT, HTML, DOC, XLS, and PPT formats (Office 2000+) Search chats from AOL 7+ and AOL …
Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 Election Projection 2004 Edition
Presidential Endorsements Around the country: “The goal of this site is to catalog presidential endorsements from newspapers around the country (and maybe even the world).”
K. A. Taipale, Technology, Security and Privacy: The Fear of Frankenstein, the Myth of Privacy and the Lessons of King Ludd, 7 Yale J. L. & Tech. (forthcoming Dec. 2004, 88 pages, PDF): “This paper examines technologies of identification, data aggregation and analysis (including data mining), and collection currently being considered for use in the …
