Category «Blogs»

Hearing on FEC Regulation of Internet and Blogs

Prepared Remarks to the FEC June 28, 2005, by kos:“…It isn’t my position that the government should never regulate any Internet communications. It is my position that the Internet is so different than television, radio, and print media, that the current campaign finance regime doesn’t fit and different techniques must be employed..” Bloggers Go Mainstream …

Subjects: Blogs, Civil Liberties, E-Government

Microsoft Announces Its New OS and Browser Will Implement RSS

The Microsoft Development Center has extensive and detailed documentation on RSS implementation in Longhorn: “This paper describes RSS in the context of a vision for how web content is and will be consumed, explores opportunities enabled by incorporating RSS functionality into applications and outlines the Windows platform services that make this easy.” See also RSS …

Subjects: Blogs, Legal Research, Microsoft, RSS

Blog from US Attorney in WD of Missouri

“Welcome to the media blog for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Missouri. Consider this an online press briefing, sort of a virtual courthouse steps, where reporters and editors can find more information they need to make coverage decisions. This site doesn’t replace our existing “official” Web site, where we will continue …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Legal Research

Corporate Blogs Are All The Rage, Sort Of

Recent suggested reading on enterprise blogs, and corporate blogs for public consumption: Establishing a Weblog On Your Organization’s Intranet (PDF): Sabrina I. Pacifici and Dennis Hamilton’s presentation from the SLA Annual Conference in Toronto is a ying and yang study of blogging enterprisewide behind the corporate firewall, with examples of blogs, and numerous references to …

Subjects: Blogs, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Marketing

MIT Weblog Survey

MIT Weblog Survey: “This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically we are interested in issues of demographics, communication behaviors, experience with weblogs and …

Subjects: Blogs

Advocacy Group Publishes Legal Guide for Bloggers

Press release: EFF Announces its New Legal Guide for Bloggers – “The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF) is pleased to release a document that informs bloggers of their legal rights. EFF’s Legal Guide for Bloggers is a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQs)designed to educate bloggers about their legal rights in a number of areas, including …

Subjects: Blogs, Copyright, Legal Research

Advocacy Group Files Comments on FEC’s Proposed Regulation of Internet Speech

Follow-up to several postings on the FEC and bloggers (here, here, and here), news today from the Center for Democracy and Policy: “In two sets of comments filed today with the Federal Election Commission, CDT urged the FEC to declare that the online political speech of bloggers and other ordinary citizens is exempt from the …

Subjects: Blogs, Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet