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“The Internet, of course, is the maze of phone and cable lines, satellites, and network cables that interconnect computers around the world. The Web is the name given to anything on the Internet that can be accessed using a Uniform Resource Locator, or URL.” [Link]
A follow-up to my March 7 posting: the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was ruled unconstitutional for a second time by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision ACLU v. John Ashcroft, no. 19-1324, filed March 6. Arguing that requiring net filters in public libraries is not sufficient, Solicitor General Theodore Olson filed …
Small and Solo Firm Technology Use: A brief overview of technology use in solo and small firms based on the 2002 ABA Annual Technology Survey.
Microsoft loser in patent suit: $500 million verdict in Net case: “Microsoft was told by a jury to pay $521 million to the University of California and a Chicago-area company that claimed they invented technology used in the Internet Explorer browser.” See United States Patent 5,838,906 Microsoft Statement on Eolas Technologies Jury Verdict – Aug. …
Errors Infect Doctor Lists on Web – Wrong Numbers, Dead Practitioners Found on Health Insurers’ Online Directories: “…some spot-checking by The Washington Post in recent days found a number of inaccuracies in the online directories of four large health insurers that serve the Washington region. They include wrong phone numbers and addresses and doctors who …
E-Learning Needs Analysis: “A hands-on approach to figuring out where you need to expend your training energies.”
From the FTC: Do Not Call Registry Tops 30 Million Phone Numbers – California, Florida, and Texas Lead in State Registrations. During the five weeks since it opened on June 27, consumers have registered more than 30 million telephone numbers in the National Do Not Call Registry: nearly 24 million, or 80 percent of those …
A follow-up to my July 16 posting, Oyez Project Releases Supreme Court Oral Arguments in MP3 Format: from the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune, Listening in for free at the U.S. Supreme Court.
From PBS NewsHour: Terence Smith examines Howard Dean’s success at building grassroots support in cyberspace, and how other presidential candidates are using the Internet and other technologies to their advantage. Sen. John Kerry launches Internet-based petition: John Kerry To Petition Against Overtime Bill.
“The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, the worlds most comprehensive collection of television network news programs, marks its 35th anniversary this week by going digital.” [Link] “Since Aug. 5, 1968, archivists at Vanderbilt University have preserved on videotape and indexed nearly 40,000 hours of network news just as they aired on television sets throughout the nation….the …
CIPA Decision Response: A statement from ALA President Carla D. Hayden and the ALA Executive Board, July 25, 2003.
Defamation Immunity On The Internet, by John W. Dean: “Recently, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unwisely held, in Batzel v. Cremers, that a federal statute immunizes certain statements on the Internet from defamation liability. But Judge Ronald M. Gould dissented, urging a closer look at the consequences of the ruling.”
