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Beginning in 2003, the Federal District Court in New Jersey will switch from using snail-mail in favor of faxing documents to “consenting parties” as they transition to the implementation of an e-filing system, according to this law.com article.
Sebastien Paquet, Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science and Operations Research department at Université de Montréal, has published a useful, well documented guide on what he calls “personal knowledge publishing,” commonly known as weblogs. Part one of the guide is here, and part two is here. Mr. Paquet reviews the history of weblogs, weblog applications, …
According to this Editor & Publisher article, newspapers are doing a good job of communicating with readers via the web, as they comprise ten of the top twenty highest rated online news sites.
In anticipation of the December 27, 2002 national elections, the Kenyan government is essentially blocking Web access by disabling the country’s only Internet backbone service, called Jambonet.
As a followup to my previous posting on the Australian Internet defamation case, this Christian Science Monitor commentary provides a perspective on how the threat of Internet libel litigation by individuals around the world may result in web censorship.
Doug Isenberg of GigaLaw.com reviews how the status quo prevailed this past year in regard to cyberlaw issues, in Congress and the courts.
According to this press release, a new survey indicates that the majority of Internet searching (66%) undertaken by Canadians focuses on obtaining health related data. In addition, such searches are conducted by users on at least a monthly basis. According to Ipsos-Reid, the company that conducted the survey, healthcare consistently ranks as the number one …
The FCC issued a press release today with data indicating that broadband usage in the consumer and corporate sectors increased by 27% in the first half of 2002.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a lower court decision in Young v. New Haven Advocate, a case which merits note as it addresses the issues of jurisdiction and Internet libel, the focus of a recent high profile decision in Australia. Stateside, the court determined that two Connecticut newspapers and their …
Reuters reports that ICANN announced during their December 15 meeting that there will be new topic/area specific domains added to the roster that includes .com and .org, in 2003.
The EU Commission issued a press release indicating the importance of setting standards for health related data on the web, as “Europeans access more than 100,000 health websites, making such websites amongst the most frequently used.” The Commission recommended the adoption of 6 criteria for such sites: “transparency and honesty, authority, privacy and data protection, …
The High Court of Australia issued a ruling on December 10 in the Internet defamation case Dow Jones and Company v. Gutnick. The case may have global implications for the increasingly wired publishing world. It stipulates that Web publishers of any description (be they huge corporate entities or individual weblogers) can be sued anywhere in …
