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This article from today’s New York Times indicates that the IRS plans to implement an Electronic Account Resolution program for tax professionals by spring 2004. From the IRS website: “Electronic Account Resolution allows tax professionals to expedite closure on clients’ account problems by electronically sending/receiving account related inquiries. Tax professionals may inquire about individual or …
Google Viewer: “The Google Viewer displays the pages found as a result of your Google search as a continuous scrolling slide show. You can view your search results without using your keyboard or mouse and you can adjust the speed with which the images move across your screen. Each image of a page’s contents is …
Patriot Act Author Has Concerns: “Detaining citizens as ‘enemy combatants’ — a policy not spelled out in the act — is flawed, the legal scholar says.” From the LA Times, reg. req’d.
As a follow-up to my posting on November 17, 9-11 Commission Confirms White House To Provide Edited Versions of Documents, see the 9/11 Family Steering Committee’s Statement Regarding the One-Year Anniversary of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, issued on November 27: “Unfortunately, the production of a timely report no longer …
Online Search Engines Rev Up for Holidays: Links to search engines and meta-sites to facilitate online comparison pricing for consumer goods.
Internet mapping project weaves colourful web See The Opte Project
The National Law Journal’s 26th annual survey of the nation’s largest law firms, covering the period Oct. 1, 2002, to Sept. 30, 2003.
The Future of Knowledge Management – Discussion Paper by Dave Pollard: “This paper is the result of discussions with many KM leaders about the current quandary of the KM discipline, and how ‘social software’, weblogs, and the perceived need for improvement in front-line worker productivity could present KM leaders with an opportunity to ‘reinvent’ the …
From the December 8 issue of Fortune: Can Google Grow Up? “Google is one of the best things to happen to the Net. So will its IPO, expected this spring, be a must-buy? A look inside reveals a talented company facing trouble.”
Google No. 1 search site in the world according to OneStat.com: “Google’s global usage share has reached an all time high and has risen from 55.2 percent to 56.1 percent.”
A new project report from the California Digital Library (CDL) “proposes a web-archiving service model in which libraries build archives of web-based materials to their own design (that is, in a manner that meets their local collecting aims, users’ requirements, and institutional capacities) using a suite of utility tools.” See Web-Based Government Information, Evaluating Solutions …
