New TSA Blog: Evolution of Security
“This blog is sponsored by the Transportation Security Administration to facilitate an ongoing dialogue on innovations in security, technology and the checkpoint screening process.”
Category «Blogs»
WSJ Launches New Environmental Blog
“Environmental Capital provides daily news and analysis of the business of the environment. It tracks how growing green concern, particularly over climate change, is roiling established industries and spurring new ones and how that shift is affecting investors, consumers and the planet.” [Note: does not require a subscription]
Guide to Lesser Known Technology Web Sites
Top 60 Little-Known Technology Web Sites, By Charles Babcock, Thomas Claburn, John Foley, W. David Gardner, Antone Gonsalves, Nicholas J. Hoover, K.C. Jones, Elena Malykhina, Richard Martin, Paul McDougall, Marianne McGee, Chris Murphy, Cora Nucci, Art Wittman, and Serdar Yegulalp, InformationWeek, January 26, 2008 “Our guide to great blogs and Web sites worth adding to …
W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft, Future of Web Content
Press release: “W3C…published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the Web. The HTML Working Group is creating HTML 5 to be the open, royalty-free specification for rich Web content and Web applications. The group operates entirely in public with nearly five hundred participants, including representatives from W3C …
New on LLRX.com
Reviewing the XO $100 Laptop, by Conrad J. Jacoby Social Networks for Law Librarians and Law Libraries, or How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Friending, by Debbie Ginsberg and Meg Kribble FOIA Facts: The Impact of the OPEN Government Act of 2007, by Scott A. Hodes Criminal Resources: Criminal Defense Investigation, by Ken …
Money Race Widget Empowers Bloggers
“Citizens can now track fundraising for over 1,500 congressional candidates with free widgets for blogs, social networking pages, and personal web sites. MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan watchdog group, released today customizable widgets portable chunks of code that allow content to be displayed on any web page that make political fundraising more transparent. Bloggers and …
Brodeur Journalists Survey Identifies Blogs Influence on Traditional News Coverage
“A survey of U.S. journalists by Brodeur, a unit of Omnicom Group suggests that blogs are not only having an impact on the speed and availability of news, but also influence the tone and editorial direction of reporting. The survey is part of an ongoing research project by Brodeur in conjunction with Marketwire to dissect …
Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?
Scientific American: Wikis, blogs and other collaborative web technologies could usher in a new era of science. Or not. By M. Mitchell Waldrop: “The explosively growing World Wide Web has rapidly transformed retailing, publishing, personal communication and much more. Innovations such as e-commerce, blogging, downloading and open-source software have forced old-line institutions to adopt whole …
TechPresident Presents 2007 Campaign Web Index
“TechPresident presents our 2007 Campaign Web Index, a year-end study of which campaigns are best at using the various elements of the web. For the survey we’ve tapped the very brightest minds working in tech and politics, who happen to be our own bloggers and other friends (some respondents have asked to remain anonymous). Check …
Political Bloggers at Newspaper Sites in Drivers Seat for 2008 Campaign Coverage
Editor and Publisher: “Yet it remains something newspapers are embracing as the 2008 presidential campaign hits its stride and the primaries loom. Campaign blogs were once left to partisans and non-journalists; now, along with the L.A. Times, at least five other daily papers have assigned to political blogs full-time reporters who post and edit items …
Tenth Anniversary of Blogging, December 17, 2007
Via Wired: Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger: “Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom coined the term “weblog” Dec. 17, 1997 — 10 years ago Monday — to describe the daily list of links that “logged” his travels across the web. In the decade hence, Barger feels that he’s gained some …
Acceptance Speech, Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
Acceptance Speech, Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007, December 7, 2007: “…We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women who have had years of education, to know nothing about the world, to have read nothing, …
