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From Consumer WebWatch, A Report on the Evaluation of Criteria Sets for Assessing Health Web Sites, published September 30, 2003. See also Discussions of Health Web Sites in Medical and Popular Media, from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
PoliticsOnline announced the results of its global survey to identify the 25 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics. From the press release, what follows is a selection of the honorees: BBC News and iCan team – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website is arguably the leading global authority in political news. Dean …
Electronic Government: Progress and Challenges in Implementing the Office of Personnel Management’s Initiatives, by Linda D. Koontz, director, information management, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-03-1169T, September 23. Highlights.
RSS News Readers Browse for You identifies the top news aggregators as: FeedDemon 1.0, Feedreader 2.5, NewsGator 1.3 and SharpReader 0.9.2.1.
The Eighth Annual AmLaw Tech Survey, September 2003. Survey results were compiled from responses provided by 137 law firms, and address the following categories: document management, docketing & calendaring, spam defense, litigation support, and electronic evidence vendors. Additional information on expenditures related to hardware, software and IT related personnel is provided in another survey titled …
Yesterday came news that VeriSign had launched a new service that redirects users who mistype urls of websites (apparently at the rate of 20 million times per day) to Site Finder, which in turn markets the availability of these mistyped .com or .net domains. A Slashdot posting provided this link to a pdf document on …
The September 11 Digital Archive “uses electronic media to collect, preserve and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks.” See my previous related posting here.
Implementation Issues Surrounding the Children’s Internet Protection Act, August 29, 2003.
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) “announced that its members have approved Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. WSRP standardizes the consumption of Web services in portal front ends, as well as the way in which …
RSS – A Primer for Publishers & Content Providers: “This document is aimed at publishers and content providers with the intention of introducing & explaining the concepts behind RSS and addressing some commonly expressed concerns…the guidelines do provide recommendations for good practice, case studies on RSS production and links to tools and specifications which will …
RSS and News Aggregators: What Do You Really Need To Know To Keep Up? by Steven J. Bell, Director of the Library, Paul J. Gutman Library, Philadelphia University.
From the Committee on Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property September 4, 2003 – Oversight Hearing on “Internet Domain Name Fraud – the U.S. Governments Role in Ensuring Public Access to Accurate Whois Data”: Witness List testimony of: Steven Metalitz, Benjamin Edelman, James Farnan, Theodore Kassinger. See also: Lax controls encourage Web …
