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“The Anti-Spyware Coalition has released the first draft of the consensus document Spyware Definitions and Supporting Documents for a 30 day public comment period.” See also from Wired, Giving New Meaning to ‘Spyware’
Wired reports today that the DOJ, FBI and DHS filed comments (23 pages, PDF) with the FCC seeking authority to require carriers to supply access to passenger in-flight communications “processed to and from broadband enabled communications devices onboard aircraft operating with United States airspace…,” that they further require to be recorded by the carriers, once …
Communicating with Congress: How Capitol Hill is Coping with the Surge in Citizen Advocacy; “The Internet and e-mail have made it easier and cheaper than ever before for citizens to communicate with their Members of Congress. In 2004, Congress received 200 million communications, four times more than in 1995 — the direct result of Internet-based …
From the Yahoo announcement: “No more searching dozens of sites to find the jobs that you want. We’ve already collected jobs from the major web sites you know, and also the hard-to find ones you may have been missing.” See Yahoo! HotJobs [Online Recruitment Blog]
Judith C. Russell, Superintendent of Documents, today posted that “GPO’s Digitization Specification 3.0 is being distributed for review and comment. This specification (available in PDF) , will be used to support GPO’s plan to convert legacy U.S. government documents into preservation masters that will subsequently be used to creative derivative “access” files that support user …
See this WSJ article, available free to non-subscribers, which provides an annotated list of recommended websites, free and fee, that will be of interest to lawyers and legal professionals looking to make a change.
Press release from the British Library: According to Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, “…by the year 2020, 40% of UK research monographs will be available in electronic format only, while a further 50% will be produced in both print and digital. A mere 10% of new titles will be available in print …
Summary of Findings, released June 26, 2005: Public More Critical of Press, But Goodwill Persists – Online Newspaper Readership Countering Print Losses. About the Survey Commentary: The Public’s Complicated Views of Press Point to Solutions Questionnaire Detailed Demographic Tables
From the American Library Assocation (ALA) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: U.S. Public Libraries Providing Unprecedented Access to Computers, the Internet, and Technology Training: “Nearly every U.S. public library offers free access to computers and the Internet, but overall libraries are challenged to provide enough workstations to meet demand, pay for ongoing Internet …
As a follow-up to my June 17 posting, Details Revealed on Google Library Project at U. Michigan, from BusinessWeek.com today, A New Page in Google’s Books Fight: “The newly revealed contract with the University of Michigan is stoking publishers’ fears about plans to digitize library collections.” See also this commentary by Daniel Brandt, June 19, …
From CNN Money, ID data breaches: as rampant as it seems documents the circumstances of the most recently reported incident of hacking, called skimming, that involved the illegal acquisition and storage of credit card data, the exact impact of which still has been not fully disclosed apparently due to the ongoing investigation. Related references: Personal …
OCLC Data Mining Projects: “…Internet giants such as Amazon and Google provide valuable lessons on the importance of squeezing the full value from available data. Whether in the form of book recommendations, search result rankings, targeted advertising, or collection views (e.g., Google Scholar), the “Amazoogle” companies make a concerted effort to release as much value …
