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Universal Affordable Broadband for All Americans – How to Modernize Universal Service for the 21st Century and Connect Americans to a New Era of Digital Opportunity, Jim Kohlenberger, Senior Fellow, Benton Foundation “For more than 200 years, Americans have approached the future the same way that Huck Finn looked at the bend in the river: …
Press release: “The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) today released a consensus framework that paves the way for federal legislation establishing a national program for recycling household TVs and information technology (IT) products such as computers and computer monitors. The board of EIA’s Environmental Issues Council, which includes companies such as HP, Lenovo, Panasonic and Sharp, …
Press release: “The volume of spam is growing in Americans’ personal and workplace emailaccounts, but email users are less bothered by it. Spam continues to plague the internet as more Americans than ever say they are getting more spam than in the past. But while American internet users report increasing volumes of spam, they also …
B.B. Bell, General, US Army, Commander: Restricted Access to Internet Entertainment Sites Across DoD Networks, May 11, 2007 – “The DoD will block worldwide access to the following internet sites, on or about 14 May 2007: youtube.com, 1.fm, pandora.com, photobucket.com, myspace.com, live365.com, hi5.com, metacafe.com, mtv.com, ifilm.com, blackplanet.com, stupidvideos.com and filecabi.com” Stars and Stripes: DOD blocking …
Presentation Links from Computers in Libraries 2007
Earthtimes reports that a recent “internal survey conducted by search engine giant Google has revealed that one in every 10 pages scanned by the company is infected with malicious software that can harm the users’ PC.” The Ghost In The Browser. Analysis of Web-based Malware, Niels Provos, Dean McNamee, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Ke Wang and Nagendra …
Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, by Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Working Paper Number: RWP07-022, Submitted: 04/24/2007 [via Harvard Crimson, Working paper calls for search engines to delete Internet activity records] Abstract: “As humans we have the capacity to remember and to forget. For millennia remembering was hard, and forgetting …
Are Americans Ready to Elect a Female President? Past Statewide Elections Suggest Gender Is Not an Obstacle — at Least for Democratic Candidates – by Andrew Kohut, President, Pew Research Center, May 9, 2007.
This Google Phonebook Name Removal site provides a form to remove your residential and/or businesss listing information from the Google phonebook. The page notes: “Removing your phonebook listing will not remove your personal information from other pages on the web or from other reverse phone listing lookup services.” [via Darlene Fichter].
Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age, James Waldo, Herbert S. Lin, and Lynette I. Millett, editors, 456 pages, May 4, 2007 – This books is available in its pre-publication version from the National Academies Press. “Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the …
I created and launched LLRX.com in 1996 and have always strived to maintain a site dedicated to sharing best practices on a range of research and technology related issues relevant to legal professionals. Keeping these goals in mind, launching the newly designed LLRX.com, which premiered with the April 2007 issue, was an endeavor over one …
Press release: “Fully 85% of American adults use the internet or cell phones and most use both. Many also have broadband connections, digital cameras and video game systems. Yet the proportion of adults who exploit the connectivity, the capacity for self expression, and the interactivity of modern information technology is a modest 8%.” Related …
