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Fact Sheet, Operation E-Con: Cracking Down on Internet Crime, released by the DOJ on May 16, 2003. “Since its inception, Operation E-Con has conducted over 90 investigations involving 89,000 victims and estimated losses of more than $176 million….To date Operation E-Con has executed over 70 search and seizure warrants that have led to 130 arrests …
From the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), this new survey (abstract only available free), Use of the Internet and E-mail for Health Care Information concludes that “Although many people use the Internet for health information, use is not as common as is sometimes reported.”
Promoting Innovation to Prevent the Internet from Becoming a Wasteland. “Markle Foundation President Zoë Baird joins two dozen prominent attorneys, public officials, journalists, industry leaders, public interest advocates, and academics in examining the state of communications policy and media output more than four decades after Minow’s celebrated speech.”
From Thinkers to Clickers: The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human, by M.O. Thirunarayanan, associate professor, Florida International University in Miami). “The growing popularity of the World Wide Web is slowly but surely transforming the lives of human beings who are beginning to make the sad transition from being …
This New York Times article, Library’s robot is a real page-turner, available via the International Herald Tribune, describes a fascinating, ambitious, costly, technically challenging and also interesting from the perspective of fair use, project underway at the Stanford University Libraries. Using a robotic book scanner from 4DigitalBooks, the libraries are undertaking projects to digitize their …
Comments of Charles E. Parker, Chair of The American Library Association’s E-rate Task Force, before the Federal Communications Commission Public Forum on Improving Administration of the E-rate Program, May 8th, 2003. See the FCC press release here, and Fraud, waste in school Internet program, from CNN, as well as Schools, Libraries Call for More E-Rate …
Via Metafilter, news that New York’s Mayor Bloomberg was behind the launch of the newly designed MyNYC.gov Portal. This well crafted site provides updated news banner headlines about issues including public health and transportation, a quick search engine to locate city services and facilities, straight-forward links to the Mayor’s office, agency services, elected officials, live …
California Assembly Bill 1143, as amended April 30, “would establish new procedures for the production by an Internet service provider or online community host of identifying information regarding a consumer..” The bill is now under consideration by the Committee on Judiciary.
According to this article, Bradley University has joined over 200 other universities participating in the ultra-high speed broadband Internet2 consortium. This project is a collaboration between academia, government and industry, and not available to the public. According to Jeff Huberman, dean of Bradley’s communications school, “Boundaries become irrelevant with Internet2. It’s an entirely different playing …
The May 1, 2003 edition of the Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information, by Marian Dworaczek, is now available. It “deals with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes over 1,500 indexed titles and is updated …
Creating a Unified Digital Campus to Satisfy the Needs of 21st Century Learners:..”institutions must strive to unify all of their disparate technology applications and systems into a single digital campus.” From the Michigan Virtual University.
The Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Markle Foundation have announced the launch of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Database, which “provides Internet users worldwide with free access to precedents regarding disputes over Web addresses, giving parties the tools necessary to better prepare for Web-based cases than ever before. The …
