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From the October 13, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the following essays, available at no cost to non-subscribers, “discuss the immediate challenges [physicians] faced and address the public health concerns in the aftermath.” Volunteer Work Logistics First Public Health Response Assessing Needs Finding Supplies Aftershocks Evacuated Populations Lessons …
In following the continuing saga of the Google Print Program, from WSJ’s Free Features today: Authors’ Second Chance “Google’s ambitious plan to put books online could give authors and publishers a new lease on life. But Google Print’s critics say the ambitious plan runs afoul of copyright laws.”
Key Ruling Backs Blog and Web Rights Delware Supreme Court, John Doe No. 1 v. Cahill et. al., October 5, 2005 (33 pages, PDF) Related links: Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents Updates to Recent White Paper on Blogging Anonymously
Press release: “Sixty-eight percent of American adults, or about 137 million people, use the internet, up from 63% one year ago. Thirty-two percent of American adults, or about 65 million people, do not go online, and it is not always by choice. Certain groups continue to lag in their internet adoption.” Digital Divisions: There are …
From the U.S. Conference of Mayors: “Two new web sites and relief funds have been created to help raise donations for the recovery effort in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast area: “New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has established the “The Bring New Orleans Back Fund” which “is the only non-profit fund exclusively dedicated to …
Google press release: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Google Inc. today announced an agreement to promote and distribute their software technologies to millions of users around the world. The agreement aims to make it easier for users to freely obtain Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE), the Google Toolbar and the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, helping millions …
HP Survey Shows Executives Unaware that Improper IT Disposal Can Lead to Fines, Imprisonment Old computers increasingly find new life HP Environment: Product Return and Recycling – this site includes a global online ordering tool to request recycling services.. [“HP’s computer hardware recycling service is a simple and environmentally sound take-back program that offers consumers …
“The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo!. The OCA will …
From Sam Hine, this link to the Bruderhof Peace Barn, a tremendously moving and respectful website about a memorial to the victims of flight 93, created by the 5th-8th grade students of the Spring Valley Bruderhof School, located near the site of the crash.
Katrina: The Sounds of Communications Silence, by John Wohlstetter, Discovery Institute, September 22, 2005: “The near total communications shutdown caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans reveals that in the four years since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks federal, state and local governments seemed to have learned nothing from 9/11.”
From AP: Hurricane Rita Pushes Blogs, Podcasts and Rich Maps to Forefront of Media’s Efforts Related links: Stormwatchers – Citizen journalists covering Hurricane Rita, sponsored by the Houston Chronicle News updates from the Times Picayune, Nola.com Rita map
Pew Internet press release: “53% of Americans who go online from home have high-speed, but growth rate of broadband adoption is down substantially from last year.” Related links: Broadband Adoption in the United States: Growing but Slowing See also: The 33rd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy will be held September 23-25 at …
