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Expanding E-Government Results Report, December 2006 (12 pages, PDF): “During this last year, adoption, participation and customer satisfaction of 18 Presidential E-Government initiatives were tracked in order to provide a complete, timely and accurate assessment of the usage of and benefits delivered to the respective customers citizens, businesses, and government agencies alike.” [Report includes …
Press release: Nearly Half of our Lives Spent with TV, Radio, Internet, Newspapers, According to Census Bureau Publication, December 15, 2006. “Adults and teens will spend nearly five months (3,518 hours) next year watching television, surfing the Internet, reading daily newspapers and listening to personal music devices. Thats only one of thousands of nuggets of …
Follow up to recent postings on opposition by public interest groups, members of Congress, library associations, librarians, and scientists, to the closure of EPA libraries throughout the country, today this EPA press release stated: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing broader access to a larger audience by making agency library materials available through its …
The nonprofit Educational Testing Service’s (ETS) new Information and Communications Technology (ICT) literacy exam “measures students’ abilities to research, organize, and communicate information using technology….Feedback from librarians and faculty members has shown that while most college-age students can use technology, they don’t necessarily know what to do with the content the technology provides….To achieve information …
“The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has been tracking a representative sample of the American population for over six years watching as people move on-line and then move from modems to broadband.” Highlights of the 2007 Digital Future Report “This year’s report contains a large module looking at on-line communities …
“World AIDS Day is a day when people from around the world come together within a single effort. The global theme for the World AIDS Day 2006 is accountability – and the slogan is “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.” Via UN Pulse, “The Dag Hammarskjöld Library has compiled a list of related resources and weblinks.” …
Basel Conference Addresses Electronic Wastes Challenge: “Some 20 to 50 million metric tonnes of e-waste are generated worldwide every year, comprising more than 5% of all municipal solid waste. When the millions of computers purchased around the world every year (183 million in 2004) become obsolete they leave behind lead, cadmium, mercury and other hazardous …
November 27, 2006 statement: “Last week, CDT and the ACLU joined a friend-of-the-court brief written by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging a federal appeals court to extend to e-mail the same constitutional protection accorded to telephone calls and regular mail. Remarkably, the constitutional status of e-mail has never been decided, and the Justice Department claims …
Election Night 2006 An Evening in the Life of the American Media, November 27, 2006 – by the Project for Excellence in Journalism: “For the blogosphere, a fairly smooth election night made things something of a disappointment. For top newspaper Web sites, finding the balance between speed and offering a rich narrative still has to …
The New York Times reported that the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab will launch a censorship circumvention solution called psiphon. According to the Citizen Lab, “psiphon is…a human rights software project…that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind …
Barrett v. Rosenthal, California Supreme Court, November 20, 2006: “In the context of defamation, the Communications Decency Act of 1996, codified at 47 U.S.C. section 230, prohibits “distributor” liability for Internet publications. Further, section 230(c)(1) immunizes individual “users” of interactive computer services, and no practical or principled distinction can be drawn between active and passive …
Press release: A “national survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the Exploratorium benchmarks how the internet fits into people’s habits for gathering news and information about science…Fully 40 million Americans use the internet as their primary source of news and information about science and 87% of online users …
