A Practical Guide to E-Discovery
Eight Simple Steps for Doing Effective E-Discovery, By Dennis Kennedy and George Socha, November 2004.
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Blogging Behind the Corporate Firewall at Google
Google sees benefits in corporate blogging
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Removes Data From Public Access
Notice from the November 18, 2004 Federal Register: “SUMMARY: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to remove its Flight Information Publications (FLIP), Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF), and related aeronautical safety of navigation digital and hardcopy publications from public sale and distribution…The DAFIF and related digital aeronautical information files will be protected from general …
Yahoo! Partners With OCLC on Toolbar with WorldCat Searching
Yahoo! Toolbar with WorldCat searching of library materials
Berkeley Researchers Document Florida E-Voting Discrepancies
The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support for Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections by Michael Hout, Laura Mangels, Jennifer Carlson, and Rachel Best, with the assistance of the UC Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team. The link to the Summary of findings (PDF) the full text report (PDF) and the report data. …
Report Highlights Need for Qualified Gov’t Appointed Science and Technology Experts
From the National Academies press release: “To tackle increasingly complex issues, U.S. policy-makers should ensure that both the presidential appointment process for senior science and technology posts and the process of appointing experts to federal S&T advisory committees operate more quickly and transparently, says a new report from the National Academies.”
Google Launches New Search Interface For “Scholarly” Literature
From the FAQ About Google Scholar: “Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly …
beSpacific Added to Librarian’s Index to the Internet
I am pleased to have been indexed by lii.org.
Government Agencies Slowly Adopt RSS Feeds
From Wired, RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy. See also RSS in Government
TSA Issues Final Rule on Secure Flight Program
This final rule (35 pages, PDF) lists the requirements for 72 aircraft operators in the United States, stipulating that all their respective passenger name records (PNRs), “containing itineraries for domestic flights operated under a full security program and for which all flights segments… were flown between June 1, 2004 and June 30, 2004,” must be …
Advanced Look At MSN’s New Desktop Search Tool
Exclusive: MSN Desktop Search Revealed includes screens shots of the new utility that will be released in December as part of the MSN Toolbar Suite. (via Slashdot)
CRS Report on Regs Requiring Air Passengers to Show Gov’t ID
Interstate Travel: Constitutional Challenges to the Identification Requirement and Other Transportation Security Regulations, Congressional Research Service, November 4, 2004 (via Secrecy News) Related postings on Gilmore v. Ashcroft: Requirement to Show ID for Ground and Air Transport
