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From Declan McCullagh, Spam blockers may wreak e-mail havoc, and a series of informative postings (all available at this one link) at his Politechbot.com site, on spam blacklists/blocklists. In related news, see also: How to Unclog the Information Artery.
In Search Privacy: An Issue?, Part 2, Danny Sullivan evaluates the privacy policies and associated data mining applications of Yahoo and Google. Part 1 of this article is here.
Scanning Essentials for Your Office reviews applications, costs and options for creating e-records from text, pictures and images.
H.R. 2214: To prevent unsolicited commercial electronic mail. Sponsor: Rep. Richard Burr (R-NC), introduced 5/22/2003. This Act may be cited as the “Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act of 2003.” Summary from Spam Laws: “The bill would require all commercial e-mail messages to be identified as such (but not with a standard label, except for …
From AP: “A federal jury has ruled that eBay’s model for selling fixed-price merchandise violates a patent filed by a Virginia attorney, a ruling that could force the online auction house to shed as much as a third of its total business. The decision: Mercexchange, LLC v. eBAY, Inc and Half.com, Inc., May 27, 2003 …
The non-profit association, EDUCAUSE, maintains a regularly updated online chart in Excel that tracks technology-related legislation for the 108th Congress. The chart indicates issue, bill number, related bill, last action (date), committee/subcommittee, and whether the bill is active. There are currently 51 entries on issues including privacy, ID theft, broadband and spam.
According to the Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002, the kids.us domain will be a “haven for material that promotes positive experiences for children and families using the Internet.” This task poses significant challenges to those who plan to publish and maintain “G” rated-only content beginning this September. Related posting: President Signs Kids …
From FAS, an excerpt from H.R. 1588, the National Defense Authorization for Fiscal Year 2004 as reported in the House (House Report 108-106, Part 1 and Part 2 (*note, these are very long documents), on the Expansion of the Defense Counterintelligence Polygraph Program.
Broadening the Vision for KM (PowerPoint), by Tom Bartley, Sally Gonzalez, Peter Krakaur, and Pulling It All Together, STELLA – Knowledge Matters – A KM Case Study (PowerPoint), by Jean Anne McLeod.
Understanding Online’s Value Proposition, an article by writer, speaker and consultant Robert Spears, presents an overview of a diverse range of websites and online services that consumers have determined provide content that justifies a fee. This short but interesting commentary is part of an upcoming book, Strategic Convergence: The Path to Sustainable Profits.
An update on knowledge management incentives reviews the successes and failures of programs used by high profile companies such as Siemens and Hill & Knowlton to encourage and sustain employee participation in building intranets and knowledge manangement applications.
The Accidental Webmaster, by Julie M. Still, reference librarian at Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey.
