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Tech//404® Data Loss Cost Calculator: “Data loss resulting from network security breaches and identity theft has become a regular occurrence. While the number of affected records can vary widely in any given data loss scenario, a recent study by the Ponemon Institute found that the average number was roughly 99,000. For recent examples and media …
“The Tarlton Law Library has compiled an Actual Innocence awareness database which contains citations (and links, where possible) to current articles, scholarship, legislation and other materials in the dynamic world of wrongful convictions. The materials are classified into what are considered the primary causes of wrongful conviction: forensics/DNA; eyewitness identification; false confessions; jailhouse informants; police …
Press release: “Today, as in the past, the United States and our allies face dangerous challenges to our security, freedom, and way of life. The current global environment, however, is more interconnected, complex, and dynamic than the bipolar world of the Cold War. The advance of globalization has enabled, amplified, and accelerated threats stemming from …
Press release: “The Holocaust took place across the entire European continent, and for all of Europe’s Jews, as well as other victims of Nazism, geography played a major role in determining their fate. The Museum is using Google Earth to map key Holocaust sites with historic content from its collections, powerfully illustrating the enormous scope …
Press release: “The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. The Museum has assembled contentphotographs, data, and eyewitness testimonyfrom a number of sources …
“GPO launched the GPO LOCKSS Pilot Project in June 2005 to investigate how LOCKSS might be used for digital distribution. LOCKSS (for “Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe”) is open source software that provides institutions with a way to collect, store, and maintain access to their own local copy of e-journal content. LOCKSS was developed …
Via Toby McIntosh, freedominfo.org: “The World Bank is well on its way to developing a country-by-country database “on various transparency and accountability institutions in developing countries…The new database, which may be posted online in a month or so, will summarize national laws on asset disclosure, conflict of interest, freedom of information, and immunity provisions. The …
Press release: “The AFL-CIO today unveiled its 2007 Executive PayWatch Website, detailing how a flawed executive compensation system allowed CEOs in 2006 to collect excessive severance packages and providing an in-depth look at the ongoing stock options backdating scandal. The AFL-CIO PayWatch site…also provides a snapshot of the total compensation for CEOs, including the grant …
Eight Million Pages of New Material for Researchers on Nazi and Japanese War Crimes, Washington, D.C.: “The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), the group tasked with locating, declassifying, and making publicly available U.S. records of Nazi and Japanese war crimes, will conclude its work on March 31, 2007. …
Press release: “Today, Google is launching My Maps, a new feature of Google Maps that enables users to quickly and easily create custom maps for personal use or sharing through search. With this release, creating maps mashups is now as simple as pointing and clicking. From chronicling trips, to sharing tips and documenting academic endeavors, …
David Sifry’s annual State of the Blogosphere report: “Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and we’re seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That’s about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.” Archive of reports dating back to October 2004 are linked here.
“The Copyright Renewal Database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. Note that the database includes ONLY US Class A (book) renewals. The period from 1923-1963 is of special interest for US copyrights, as works published …
