Courts and Webcasting
The West Virginia Supreme Court Clerk, Rory Perry, has created a list of appellate and trial courts that webcast oral arguments, and make them available either live or archived.
Category «Internet»
ABA Approved Guidelines for Legal Website Providers
From the ABA’s elawyering webzine, Best Practice Guidelines for Legal Information Web Site Providers. The guidelines were approved by the House of Delegate and updated on March 11.
EU Plan to Promote Safe Use of The Internet
European Parliament and Council decision amending Decision No 276/1999/EC adopting a multiannual Community action plan on promoting safer use of the Internet by combating illegal and harmful content on global networks, COM(2002) 152 Final.
How About Some Fries With Your High Speed Net Access
This story is just to good to pass up: McDonald’s is test marketing a new service in restaurants in three cities – NYC, Chicago and somewhere to be announced in California: the purchase of a combination meal (I have no idea what that is having been a vegetarian for 29 years) is accompanied by one …
Public Library of Science Coming Later This Year
The Public Library of Science “is working to establish online public libraries of science that will archive and freely distribute the complete contents of every published scientific article.” For more information, see this article, Will Walls Come Tumbling Down? (free registration req’d).
Libraries, Net Filters and the Supreme Court
From the New York Times, Computers in Libraries Make Moral Judgments, Selectively, is a commentary by Geoffrey Nunberg who was an expert witness for the American Library Association in their case challenging the constitutionality of the Children’s Internet Protection Act.
Court of Appeals Deals Another Blow to COPA
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. The court stated that “…provisions of COPA are not narrowly tailored to achieve the Government’s compelling interest in protecting minors from harmful material …
News Aggregators
Hot Off Your News Clicking Service reviews the subscription news reader NewzCrawler, and highlights the attributes of news aggregators in general. There are other reliable news aggregator applications, including free and fee-based alternatives such as the following: AmphetaDesk – http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ Newsbooster – http://www.newsbooster.com/ RadioUserLand – http://radio.userland.com/newsaggregator Syndirella – http://www.yole.ru/projects/syndirella/
CDT Opposes Maryland Bill Impacting ISPs
Maryland House Bill 661, Internet Child Pornography – Removal, is opposed by the advocacy group Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT). CDT staff counsel John B. Morris testified before the Judiciary Committee Maryland House of Delegates on March 4 that the bill has “…due process problems under the Fourteenth Amendment, free speech problems under the …
Legislation to Protect Children on the Web
From the Washington Post, this timely article, Primer: Children, The Internet and Pornography, tracks the checkered past six years of laws specifically intended to protect children on the Web. Unfortunately, no links to the enacted laws and proposed legislation are provided, so here they are: the Children’s Internet Protection Act; the Child Online Protection Act; …
New Tech Magazine Bucks Trend
The recent demise of well regarded techzine Red Herring, just short of its tenth anniversary, follows the discontinuation of other prominent publications in the tech arena, including The Industry Standard in 2001, Upside magazine in 2002, and predictions that continued financial woes at Salon.com will also result in its closure. Amidst all this gloom comes …
Questions About Bush Cyberspace Strategy
From Slate, this commentary on the recently released National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace contends that the report seeks to engender unfounded fears about cyberterrorism.
