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From the Council on Foreign Relations, in cooperation with the Markle Foundation, comes this informative and timely website, Terrorism: Questions & Answers. “The purpose of our site is to help sort out issues as they relate to terrorism in a question-and-answer format that is authoritative, easily understandable, and nonpartisan.”
Via Digital Libraries, news about a new blog, VIP2, “for librarians, visually impaired individuals, and others interested in talking about digital books, talking books, digital audiobooks, library services for the visually impaired, and other issues of interest.”
The Congress Online Project released a report resulting from two years of research, Congress Online 2003: Turning the Corner on the Information Age (html). The entire text of the report is also available in PDF. The report evaluates 610 congressional member, standing committee and leadership websites, identifies effective techniques and tools for design, usability and …
A new organization, the Internet Research Task Force, comprised of 13 Research Groups, one of whose goal is to fight spam, launched their website last week. The Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) has an email list at [email protected].
IDCs recently released study, Worldwide Bandwidth End-User Forecast and Analysis, 2003-2007: More is Still Not Enough ($$$), predicts that within five years, Internet traffic generated by end-users will double, from “180 petabits per day in 2002 to 5,175 petabits per day by the end of 2007.” The press release uses an interesting analogy to illustrate …
From the New York Times, Online Library Wants It All, Every Book: “The directors of the new Alexandria Library, which christened a steel and glass structure with 250,000 books in October, have joined forces with an American artist and software engineers in an ambitious effort to make virtually all of the world’s books available at …
Consumer Reports published a new survey of the top six online travel booking websites. Sites are scored for credibilty, usability and content, and include CheapTickets, Expedia, OneTravel.com, Orbitz, TravelNow.com and Travelocity.
Check out Word Spy, a resource that provides definitions of new words and phrases, as well as ones already in use that have taken on new meanings. What makes the site especially interesting is that it includes ‘example citations’ for each entry that illustrate the use of the word or phrase in context (with a …
On Monday, the Senate passed, by a vote of 84-0, the Prosecutorial Remedies and Tools Against the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003, or the ‘PROTECT Act’ (S. 151). For reference, please see Senate Rpt. 108-002 – The PROTECT Act of 2003. This legislation will assist law enforcement in their efforts to track and …
Search engine Google is often the subject of news articles, but the February 15 announcement of the company’s purchase of the popular Blooger software has generated a steady stream of commentary and speculation in the blogging world and in the ‘mainstream’ press. What follows are several recent articles worth reviewing on the growing impact of …
The Institute of Museum and Library Services commissioned a recently published study from the Information Institute at Florida State University, Public Libraries and the Internet 2002: Internet Connectivity and Networked Services, (PDF) to evaluate the extent of Internet connectivity in U.S. public libraries. The results, gleaned from 1,100 respondents, indicate that almost all public libraries …
The FCC published a press release on the new rules for network unbundling of incumbent local phone carriers. See this Washington Post article, Vote on Internet Access Favors Phone Companies, for more details, and from the New York Times, High-Speed Service May Cost More.
