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A Fifth of Online Users Who Read Newspapers Now Rely Primarily On Web Editions: “Findings from the latest Nielsen//NetRatings @Plan Summer 2005 research shows that a significant 21 percent of Web users who read newspapers have transferred their readership primarily to the online version, while a majority, or 72 percent, of online users who consume …
According to an article today by Declan McCullagh, the DOJ is reviewing the implementation of “data retention rules that could permit police to obtain records of e-mail, browsing or chat-room activity months after ISPs ordinarily would have deleted the logs–if they were ever kept in the first place.”
“What is patientINFORM? patientINFORM is a free online service that provides patients and their caregivers access to some of the most up-to-date, reliable and important research available about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases (initially the focus is on cancer, heart disease and diabetes).”
“EPIC joined eight civil liberties organizations to submit a “friend of the court” brief (38 pages, PDF) in Forensic Advisors v. Matrixx Initiatives, a case before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals in which a pharmaceutical company is attempting to force a newsletter publisher to disclose his subscriber list. The company wants to use the …
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Project on Digital Broadband Content published a new Report on Digital Music: Opportunities and challenges (132 pages, PDF): “…the outlook for the music market in 2005 is positive due to rapidly increasing sales of (mobile) digital music services. Digital music is also a driver for the global …
ICANN Watch reports: “At the Luxembourg ICANN meeting, the US Government is organizing a 4-hour session of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) on how public display of Whois data supports “combating illegal activities on the Internet.” Perhaps sensing that time is running out on unrestricted access to Whois data, the US GAC representative and US-based …
Consumer Health WebWatch Rates 20 Health Information Sites
According to this Internetnews.com article today, a recent Plaxo survey indicates 37% of respondents are “sticking” with Post-It Notes or a Rolodex to manage their contacts, rather than using digital alternatives.
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 …
“Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which …
Reuters reports, via CNN, Google’s long memory stirs privacy concerns.
Open to Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline – “Sixty-four percent of American adults do not know that it is legal for online stores to charge different people different prices at the same time of day for the same product. This groundbreaking new study (38 pages, PDF) explores this and many other shopping facts that …
