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The ABA TECHSHOW® 2003 is April 3-5, 2003 in Chicago. There will be a wide range of presentations, including From Bulletin Board to Blogs and Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Identity Theft and Other New Fears. More on the conference later in the week.
The General Services Administration (GSA) issued a final rule, published in today’s Federal Register establishing a new policy for the registration of .gov domain names, over which GSA has had jurisdiction since 1997. Such action now requires approval by cabinet level CIOs.
The EU launched a new free website providing news on legal issues and practices of member states. The site site is accessible in eleven languages, including German, French, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, English and Italian. (Thanks to DC for the link.) See also this site from EuropeMedia Network, that provides daily updates focused on 11 telecom …
The Washington State Senate passed SB 5242, requiring libraries to offer filtering software for minor access to the internet, by a vote of 36 to 13. The bill has been referred to the House Technology, Telecommunications & Energy Committee.
The Command Post is a community blog with authors around the world who provide brief, predominently unbiased and continually updated information on a range of war related news and issues. Worth a look! Also, be sure to check-out the National Journal’s Iraq Coverage. Important information updated on this site daily includes: U.S. Military Deaths, U.S. …
Digital Democrats, An Online Analysis of the Presidential Candidates, is an in-depth survey (92 pages, pdf) of how the websites of the eight declared candidates (Howard Dean, John Edwards, Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Lieberman, Carol Moselely Braun and Al Sharpton) are leveraging the online forum for the purposes of fundraising, communicating with …
The Department of Homeland Security issued a press announcement on Operation LIBERTY SHIELD, which “is a comprehensive national plan designed to increase protections for America’s citizens and infrastructure while maintaining the free flow of goods and people across our border with minimal disruption to our economy and way of life.” Under the topic CyberSecurity, the …
The Clinton Presidential Center website, still under construction, includes the following statement: “Since President Clinton had the honor of being the first president of the Internet age, this site will function as the first truly virtual Presidential Library. It will encourage users to search for information, communicate through chats, create a dialogue and participate in …
Kenote Systems announced that the company will provide regular reports on the performance of the communications networks that comprise the Internet backbone, as well as on major government and commercial sites, during the course of the war with Iraq. Keynote reports that for the week of March 10-14, the government websites that performed best were …
Microdoc News offers links and short reviews of the Top 5 Mapping Tools of the Internet, a timely resource given current events.
The FCC will hold a public hearing May 8 on the topic of compliance and oversight for the fraud-ridden e-rate program for libraries.
The start of the war against Iraq has generated a huge spike in web traffic to military sites, along with associated bottlenecks, which have impacted access to sites that include the U.S. Army Home Page and the UK Home Office’s site for terrorism information and advice. Commercial sites such as Yahoo News are also reporting …
