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AP Leader Sees Internet As Future of News From the Online News Association conference keynote speech by AP President and CEO Tom Curley: the rate at which blogger post content “works out to roughly 16,000 posts an hour, or about as many stories as the AP sends out in an entire day.” Related article from …
Dow Jones to buy MarketWatch for $520M: “MarketWatch Inc., which owns the CBS.MarketWatch.com Web site, agreed to be bought by Dow Jones & Co. for $520 million on Sunday, ending a month-long bidding war for the online financial news and information provider.”
By Tara Calishain, this PC Magazine article reviews a number of options, provided by individuals and services, to obtain Google search results via email.
Major bugs found in Diebold vote systems More Key Reporting by Media on Election Problems The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy, by Steven F. Freedman PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Nove. 11, 2004 (11 pages, PDF) “Systematic fraud or mistabulation is a premature conclusion, but the election’s unexplained exit poll discrepancies make it an unavoidable hypothesis, one …
Tyler Cowen, from Marginal Revolution and John Irons, Argmax present their views on current issues in a point, counterpoint style. An online discussion board is available (reg’s req’d), and links to current EconoBlog postings are as follows: day one: Social Security day two: Trade day three: Europe and Asia day four: Taxes day five: Bush …
Sometimes the internet goes out of its way to let other people get their hands on your intellectual property, says Simon Moores.
Using RFID tags to track library books could increase security and ease laborious stocktakes.
MSN Search (beta) About MSN Search Microsoft Unveils Its Internet Search Engine, Quietly Microsoft Web Searcher Isn’t as Good as Google, But in Time It Could Be
The following resources, from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), reference the FCC’s proposed rule, published in the Federal Register September 23, 2003, on the Communications for Law Enforcement Assistance Act (CALEA). VoIP and Law Enforcement Surveillance Joint Comments of Industry and Public Interest [PDF], November 08, 2004 CDT Policy Post 10.20: Coalition Opposes …
This morning the Google homepage indicated “Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages.” From the Google Blog: “The documents in Google’s index are in dozens of file types from HTML to PDF, including PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. Together these pages represent a good chunk of the world’s information, but hardly all of it. That’s why we keep …
Informing Our Nation: Improving How to Understand and Assess the USA’s Position and Progress GAO-05-1, November 10, 2004. Highlights. “There has been growing activity and interest in developing a system of key national indicators that would provide an independent, trusted, reliable, widely available, and usable source of information. Such a system would facilitate fact-based assessments …
Even Digital Memories Can Fade: “So dire and complex is the challenge of digital preservation in general that the Library of Congress has spent the last several years forming committees and issuing reports on the state of the nation’s preparedness for digital preservation.”
