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Following up on reports this past week that FEMA would block journalists from publishing photos of Katrina victims , news tonight from CNN that a temporary restraining order issued by Judge Keith P. Ellison (Southern District of Texas) has prompted the government to withdraw its “zero access policy”. Search broadens for bodies in New Orleans
From Federal Computer Week, news that personnel may not access personal email accounts using agency PCs during work without prior approval.
Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of Dead Related links
Google press release: Vint Cerf, a Founding Father of the Internet, Joins Google as Chief Internet Evangelist Interview: Cerf Discusses His Jump To Google Cerf’s Up for Google – Its hiring of Net luminary Vint Cerf signals it may be plotting a stronger push into VoIP and other Web-based telecommunications.
Via Peggy Garvin, the Katrina Help Wiki is an open source project in progress, with an extensive taxonomy of resources and links (as well as a search engine) that are useful in responding to the needs of those for whom a long recovery process lies ahead. Categories include: Government Resources for persons & businesses: FEMA …
New Toll-Free Number Connects Hurricane Evacuees to People Offering Housing; 30,000 Beds Now Available in Southeast: “On Thursday, MoveOn.org Civic Action, formerly known as MoveOn.org, created a new web site, asking its 3.3 million members and the public to post any available housing for the thousands of people left homeless by Hurricane Katrina. In just …
Online Resources and How to Help, Compiled from Staff and Wire Reports, Washington Post. Hurricane Katrina: Make sure your donations get to the right place
Frederick L. Faulkner IV, Webmaster, American Bar Association, announced the ABA’s website to assist in disaster recovery will be updated regularly, and is anticipated to be online for one year. A range of links to resources are provided or are under development in the following areas: Victims & Their Families; Lawyers Needing Disaster Help; Lawyers …
From Scientific American, Drowning New Orleans – “A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city.” by Mark Fischetti. Note the publication date of this article is …
As a follow-up to my posting on July 27, Commentary on the Genesis and Evolution of the Web, this CNN article, The Internet: What lies ahead? by Daniel Sieberg, includes an online interview with Vint Cert, who states “that 90 percent of all applications on the Internet have yet to be invented.”
Several articles today highlight the significance of yesterday’s ALCU announcement that the government has used authority granted by the Patriot Act, Sec. 505, on National Security Letters, to obtain copies of patron internet related activities from a library institution whose identity cannot be disclosed. The following quote from ALA’s Patrice McDermott is included in the …
ACLU press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union today disclosed that the FBI has used a controversial Patriot Act power to demand records from an organization that possesses “a wide array of sensitive information about library patrons, including information about the reading materials borrowed by library patrons and about Internet usage by library patrons.” The …
