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H.R. 4900: Internet Free Speech Protection Act of 2006 – To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude certain communications made over the Internet from certain requirements of such Act, and for other purposes. See also House Cmte. Approves Exemption For Bloggers From FEC Regulations
March 1, 2006, It’s Time To Update Site Search Functionality, by Iris Cremers with Jaap Favier, Kerry Bodine Summary: “Forrester reviewed 179 Web sites with its updated Web Site Review methodology. One of the criteria looks at the site’s search engine and search interface and more than half of the sites we reviewed failed. …
Developed by the British Standards Institution, and reported yesterday by the Disability Rights Commission: “Key guidance on how to develop a website which is user-friendly for disabled people has been launched today.” “The DRC report, The Web: Access and Inclusion for Disabled People was published in April 2004. It investigated the accessibility of 1,000 British …
Washington Post: Democrats’ Data Mining Stirs an Intraparty Battle With Private Effort on Voter Information, Ickes and Soros Challenge Dean and DNC: Project seeks to raise millions to create and implement a database of voter information for use in state, local and national campaigns.
Notes from CEO Eric Schmidt’s March 2 Google Analyst Day remarks, not intended for public release, mention a company plan to allow for the storage of “100% of user data” on a virtual drive.
“Libraries Australia, a service that enables anyone with an Internet connection to select from more than 40 million items held in over 800 libraries across the nation….[was] launched at 12.30pm Monday 27 February at Parliament House, Canberra by Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. This innovative service is an Australian …
Press release from the Institute for Small Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet (IPDI): “The 2004 election was a watershed in presidential campaign fundraising. Three or four times as many people contributed to the candidates in 2004 as in 2000, including an unprecedented number of small donors and Internet donors.” Donors Report, A Study …
Press release: according to Nielsen//NetRatings reports – “Online Search Hits All-Time High of 5.7 Billion Searches…the highest number to date.” Top three search engines remain: Google search, Yahoo search and MSN search.
Computers in Libraries 2006, Post Conference Workshops Saturday, March 25 – Workshop 17 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m., presented by Sabrina I. Pacifici (LLRX.com and beSpacific) This workshop focuses on leveraging the best of free and low-fee Web sites as well as Web-related services (RSS, Blogs) to support and disseminate research services. It …
“The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and other partners, organized this …
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. v. Craigslist, Inc. Case 1:06-cv-00657, Filed 02/03/2006, 20 pages, PDF. The Fair Housing Act
“CDT today offered a legislative proposal that would exempt the vast majority of individual speakers on the Internet from campaign finance laws, without creating loopholes that could be easily exploited by state political parties and large donors. CDT drafted the proposal in response to mounting efforts in the House of Representatives to pass a measure …
