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Web Sites Sharing IP Addresses: Prevalence and Significance, a study by Benjamin Edelman of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, establishes that “more than 87% of active domain names are found to share their web servers with one or more additional domains, and more than two third of active domain names share their web …
The full-text of the EU Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union in 2004 is available here (Word). An Analysis of the Accession Treaty (Word) is here, and an Analysis of the accession Treaty (PDF) is here.
The March 2003 issue of Scientific American includes an article, Some Rights Reserved, on the non-profit Creative Commons licensing project that promotes a new avenue of sharing copyrighted works while retaining different levels of rights of authorship. See my previous post on this topic here.
ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions) launched a new online global discussion forum focused on ensuring universal access to scientific knowledge. There are currently 26 articles posted on the site from authors around the world, and issues addressed include copyright, privacy, digital rights and the free and unfettered publication and distribution of scientific research via …
The February 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine features five articles on providing expert, thorough and interactive research services to users through collaborative online technology applications.
Congress has approved a far reaching preservation program which will allow the Library of Congress to collect and provide access to a potentially vast database of digital content. The Librarian of Congress issued a press release on February 14 detailing the background and goals of this pioneering $99.8 million project, Preserving Our Digital Heritage: Plan …
The Kojo Nnamdi Show on public radio station WAMU in Washington, D.C. broadcast a segment on Tuesday, February 11 titled, Browsers and Search Engines, in which computer technology experts presented their views on the best search engines and browsers. This link comes via Pete Basofin.
This Business Week article details the choices available for e-filing, as well as associated costs and challenges involved in this process. See also these related articles: Free tax E-filing may not be so easy and IRS regroups on business filing.
The Center for Democracy and Technolgy (CDT) filed an amicus brief (PDF) in the Supreme Court on February 10 in the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) case, supporting the lower court decision (210 F. Supp 2d 401) overturning the requirement that federally funded libraries must filter Internet access to patrons. See also the library of …
The National Journal reports that opposition to the government’s Total Information Awareness Project continues to gain momentum. Sen. Ron Wyden, who spearheaded a bill to limit spending on the program, spoke this week with a coalition of advocacy groups including the ACLU, in an effort to ensure that the upcoming conference report will adopt the …
Micah U. Buchdahl of HTMLawyers, Inc. has published his IMA (Internet Marketing Attorney) web site reviews and awards. Well worth a read, Micah has spent considerable time evaluating the sites of the 250 largest law firms in the United States, and ranking them according to his determination of their merits in the following categories: design, …
The Editor & Publisher of the Salina Journal states his opposition to new legislation (PDF) that would permit the designation of a website as the official government source of publications, in place of community newspapers, which are inexpensive or free, and widely available.
