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The Open Thumbshots Project is a free resource used by a number of sites, now including the Open Directory Project (DMOZ), that uses the application to provide screen shot previews of over 3 million sites prior to visiting them. Example: Open Directory News – scroll down the screen to see the thumbnail screen shots.
IRS will track Free File taxpayers: Even as the IRS encourages taxpayers to take advantage of the ease and efficiency of e-filing, news that information gathered from these services will be monitored by the agency has resulted in negative responses from industry representatives and privacy advocates.
A U.S. Newswire release dated January 6 states that National Press Club President Tammy Lytle, (who is also the bureau chief for the Orlando Sentinel) sent a letter to Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld expressing opposition to a new policy concerning website content issued by Defense Department Inspector General Joseph Schmitz. In a December 5 memo, …
From the Center on Democracy and Technology: “On Tuesday, January 6, CDT and the ACLU begin presenting evidence in federal court in Philadelphia in their challenge to a Pennsylvania law that has resulted in the blocking of hundreds of thousands of legitimate websites. The hearing is expected to run for several days. Extensive briefs filed …
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: “FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.”
Sharp decline in music file swapping: Data memo from PIP and comScore Media Metrix, January 4, 2004 (link to full-text of the memo including graphics, in pdf). From the data memo: “The percentage of online Americans downloading music files on the Internet has dropped by half and the numbers who are downloading files on any …
The Many Facets of Managing Electronic Resources. The author discusses “back-end management tools for library staff,” and “front-end management” products and applications to facilitate effective delivery of services to users.
Clicking for President – Blogs, meetups, listservs, and other online tools bring a digital aspect to every campaign.
Three Out of Four People Connect to the Internet Through Non-Browser Based Applications: “…76 percent of active Web surfers access the Internet using a non-browser based application. Media players, instant messages and file sharing applications are the most popular Internet applications.” See also The Fabulous Disappearing Internet.
The Natural Resources Defense Council announced their choices for the best environmental websites of 2003 here.
From ConsumerWeb Watch, a report issued December 8, Booking and Bidding in the Blind: An In-Depth Examination of Opaque Travel Web Sites From the Executive Summary: “Booking travel can be complicated, but the complexities increase tremendously when a consumer books through an “opaque” travel Web site such as Hotwire or Priceline that does not reveal …
How the Internet Has Changed Our Lives – The sites that have “had the greatest impact on Internet and on society as a whole” include: Google, eBay, Microsoft Outlook, Amazon, and Blogger.
