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Best City and County Government Web Sites Named: “The nation’s most innovative and robust city and county government Web sites have been named by the Center for Digital Government in its 2004 Best of the Web contest…Capturing first place in the city portal category is Fort Collins, Colo.” Brown University’s state/federal e-gov rankings: “Denver wins …
Department of Homeland Security: Formidable Information and Technology Management Challenge Requires Institutional Approach, GAO-04-702, August 27, 2004. Highlights (PDF).
This article today from Government Computer News, lists, along with some descriptive information, five data mining applications currently used by federal government agencies. The article also includes an interesting narrative of how homeland security is using data mining for threat assessment analysis.
September 26, 2004, Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail: Insights into the expanding profile of bloggers whose views are changing the reading habits of many readers by allowing them highly interconnected online channels through which they can satisfy their interest in political campaign facts, rumors, and commentary. Related article published on LLRX.com, September 20 …
September 21, 2004 survey from the National Annenberg Election Survey 2004: Daily Show Viewers Knowledgeable About Presidential Campaign – “Viewers of late-night comedy programs, especially The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, are more likely to know the issue positions and backgrounds of presidential candidates than people who do not watch late-night comedy.”
The State of Information Security, 2004, A Worldwide Study Conducted by CIO Magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers (Executive Summary). Related article, Six Secrets of Highly Secure Organizations
FTC press release, FTC Continues Education, Enforcement Efforts to Promote Information Security, and Commissioner Swindle’s prepared statement (PDF, 17 pages) before the House Committee on Government Reform hearing, Identity Theft: The Cause, Costs, Consequences, and Potential Solutions?, September 22, 2004. Links to opening statement and testimony by other government officials and industry representatives.
Information Management: Planning for the Electronic Records Archives Has Improved GAO-04-927, September 23, 2004. Highlights (both PDF): “Since 2001, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been working to develop the policies and plans to build the Electronic Records Archives (ERA), a major information system that is intended to preserve and provide access to …
Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories
From the University of Houston Libraries, this selective, annotated guide includes links to sites sponsored by state and federal government, academic, association, news sources, campaigns and polling organizations. [thanks D.C]
Metaforix@Health – Free Online Resources for Public Library Users: Florida and Illinois Please note, the correct URL for the new guide, Looking For International Law? EISIL It! is http://www.llrx.com/features/eisil.htm Please see LLRX.com to review the complete Table of Contents for the September 20, 2004 issue. Enjoy, and many thanks to all the terrific authors.
Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services Commentary: A Librarian Blogger at the DNC I’ll Have Wireless to Go, Please Looking For International Law? EISIL It! Net Snippets: How to Manage Your Legal Research and Save Time Too Law Firm Marketing: Lawyers Win Business With Blogs After Hours – Travel Tips …
