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From the WSJ Personal Technology site, Blogs Can Help You Cope With Data Overload, If You Manage Them, addresses how newsreaders can help blog aficionados stay current with all the latest postings from a burgeoning community of content. Of note, Bloglines will be adding “unobtrusive Google-style ads to bring in revenue.” The author also mentions …
The AALL Blog: Boston 2004 (includes RSS feed) provides program and meeting updates, info on receptions, roundtables, and links to local area resources, both practical (such as a page on Internet access in the area) and pleasurable (recommended dining, book stores, sight seeing).
According to this National Security Archive press release, more than 2.4 million FOIA requests have been filed since the law was signed on July 4, 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson, “at a yearly cost of just over $1 per citizen.” The Archive commemorates the importance of this law by publishing “an itemized list of 38 …
From the WSJ today ($$), A Guide to Some of the Internet’s Best — And Most Overlooked — Health Sites. For more substantive treatment of this issue (no pun intended), see the monthly column on LLRX.com, Metaforix@Health, and Gloria Miccioli’s Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2003 Update.
According to AP, Clinton’s collection of presidential materials and documents, totally about 630 tons, of which 80 million pages are designated as official documents, are now on their way to his library. The Clinton Presidential Center currently allows the public to “browse over 20,000 documents in 400+ categories.”
Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use. Democratic campaign party websites are using open source apps, and the Republicans are using Microsoft. See also Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, (56 pages, PDF), a study by GW’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet.
According to the Center for Digital Governments’ 2004 Digital Counties Survey, the list of the top 10 digital county governments is led by San Diego County, California, followed by Johnson County, Kansas, Prince William County, Virginia, Roanoke County, Virginia, and Charles County, Maryland.
This PCWorld.com article doesn’t cover any new territory, but it succinctly examines the increasingly competitive quest of search engines for greater profits and the resulting impact on search results.
From the Freedom of Information Center, State FOI Laws: “The following sites contain basic statutes about open meetings and open records. Many states have multiple statutes that provide exemptions.” The page indicates the last update was May 1, 2004.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) now provides users with keyword, Boolean and field search options. “This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1142 journals in the directory. Currently 302 journals are searchable on article level. As of …
From the New York Times: The Year Rehnquist May Have Lost His Court ACLU Summary of the 2003 Supreme Court Term: Major Civil Liberties Decisions (24 pages, PDF) Supremes Tackle Some Issues, Punt Others
The President and COO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathon Schwartz, launched a blog on June 28. Other Sun bloggers comment on his effort: What’s missing from Sun blogs (or, is Executive Blogging enough)? and Sun has gone Cluetrain. Read the entire text of the book, The Cluetrain Manifesto, online for free.
