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AP documents the increasing influence of blogs, which are recognized as having made a significant impact this past year in reporting on breaking news events, political issues, and technology innovations, as just a few examples. In addition, the December 27, 2004 issue of TIME has two articles on blogging, one which requires a subscription to …
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled in favor of VoIP companies and against state regulation of their services in Minnesota. Related reference from November 09, 2004: FCC Declares VoIP Service Not Subject to State Regulation.
From Business 2.0, Whither Apple, Google, Blogs, and DVRs From Red Herring, Top Ten Trends for 2005 (via Stephen’s Web) From PC Magazine, Crazy Technology Predictions for 2005 From eWeek, Place Your 2005 IT Bets From WebProNews, 2005: Year Of The Corporate Blog
“CleanSoftware.org is a resource to help Windows users find the best free daily-use software, free from nasties: adware, spyware, harmful/intrusive components, and threats to privacy.” (via Slashdot) Versions of the software included are accompanied by red, yellow and green dots indicating the level of reliability. The Full Software Index (updated at the discretion of the …
The New York Times reports on examples of how blogs are providing readers around with world with real time updates, photos and first person accounts of the earthquake in the Indian Ocean and the resulting tsumanis. Additional sources that are posting updates on the disaster that has impacted 12 countries and claimed over 52,000 lives …
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Digitizing books: A mountainous task for Google Major collections readied for online, one page at a time.
Free WiFi access already available on Capitol Hill will be expanded in 2005 to include the area around the National Mall. Related Resources: The Open Park Project (Open Park), Washington D.C. Muniwireless.com, a “site…devoted to municipal wireless broadband projects worldwide that are funded or supported by cities and towns.”
Manybooks.net, Free eBooks for your PDA “This site contains more than 10,000 eBooks (see Project Gutenberg) formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, eBookWise-1150, or Symbian cellphone. When eBooks are added to the site they’re listed on the Recent Additions page.” [via Hot Links] Users may browse the site by Authors, Titles, Categories, …
From Lois C. Ambash, news of her current project, InfoYou, which “is an instrument for assessing and addressing information overload. Based on many people’s responses, the InfoYou questionnaire is designed to yield personalized information tool kits to help people and organizations tame information overload according to their own styles and preferences for dealing with information.” …
From C-SPAN, a 7 part series that commenced November 15, 2004 and continues through March 2005, that “examine(s) how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified. The goal is to educate the public on the what the digital age means to their lives.”
This website Not in My Food states its goal is to “provide consumers with timely information about food safety risks and actions that can be taken to reduce them…” More details about the mission and resources in the press release.
