CRS Report on the Evolving Role of the Internet and Regulatory Ramifications
CRS Report, Internet: An Overview of Key Technology Policy Issues Affecting Its Use and Growth, April 13, 2005 (47 pages, PDF). [via FAS]
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NJ Panel Rules on Use of Law Firm Web Marketing
Advertising Panel Lays Down Rules for Law Firm Ads on Web, by Charles Toutant, New Jersey Law Journal.
The First Online Congressional Hearing
Press release, May 24, 2005: Miller, Schakowsky Launch Unprecedented E-Hearing on United Airlines Pension Plans – Online Hearing is Believed to Be First of Its Kind; Witnesses Invited to Provide Testimony Via Email “Representatives George Miller (D-CA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) launched an online hearing today which they believed to be the first-ever e-hearing …
How Big is the Visible Web?
The Indexable Web is more than 11.5 billion pages, a study by Antonio Gulli and Alessio Signorini. [Internet Search Engine Database]
GAO Reports on Wireless Security Problems at Federal Agencies
Information Security: Federal Agencies Need to Improve Controls over Wireless Networks GAO-05-383, May 17, 2005. Highlights. “…federal agencies have not fully implemented key controls such as policies, practices, and tools that would enable them to operate wireless networks securely. Further, our tests of the security of wireless networks at six federal agencies revealed unauthorized wireless …
Pew Internet Report on Use of Health Information Online
From the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a new report released on May 17 – Health Information Online: Eight in ten internet users have looked for health information online, with increased interest in diet, fitness, drugs, health insurance, experimental treatments, and particular doctors and hospitals. [press release] Health Information Online (22 pages, PDF)
Internet Use Continues to Expand Among Adults
The Harris Poll® #40, May 12, 2005: Almost Three-Quarters of All U.S. Adults An Estimated 163 million Go Online “The numbers of adults who are online at home, in the office, at school, library or other locations continue to grow albeit at a somewhat slower rate. In the past eight months the number …
Website Offers Detailed Info on Crimes Reported in Chicago
A non-profit, non-government affiliated project, this free, browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago (with source data from the Chicago Police Department’s Citizen ICAM website), makes use of Google for map views, and RSS feeds “for every block and police beat in the city.” Users may browse by crime type, street, date, police district, location …
New York Times Link Generator Needs Your Support
The terrific folks who give us continuous, open access to New York Times articles through the New York Times Link Generator are in need of support following the failure of their server hard drive.
UT Austin Library Goes Digital
From the New York Times, this article reports that the UT Austin undergraduate library will be “empty… of books” by mid summer, having replaced them with “software suites.”
UK PubMed Central Project Receives Funding
From the UK Guardian Unlimited: “Some of Britain’s leading medical research funders have banded together to finance the country’s most comprehensive online repository of medical knowledge. The multimillion-pound UK PubMed Central project is a big boost to proponents of open access to scientific research. It will enable academic researchers to post papers published either online …
Another in Series on Web Job Resources
WSJ’s free CareerJournal article, Cutting Through Clutter To Find Government Gigs Online is another in the very useful, continuing series titled Jobs Blog.
