Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
From the Ranson Center, University of Texas at Austin, “Now available to the public for the first time are Woodward and Bernstein’s notes from source interviews, drafts of newspaper stories and books, memos, letters, tape recordings, research materials, and other Watergate papers… Purchased by The University of Texas at Austin in 2003, the Woodward and …
26 Readings in Public Health Law: “Each week for 26 weeks…we will post a short introductory description and a link to selected readings in public health law, including cases, law review articles, book chapters, and other materials. The readings are designed to provide a foundation for understanding public health law.” [thanks to Mike Ravnitzky] Also …
“The December 2004 issue of the International Journal Studies in Communication Science on Information Quality brings together researchers in the domain of business and organizational studies, as well as information technology and legal scholars to share findings regarding information quality and information quality management.” [Link]Articles available upon request, at no charge, include: Information Quality: Organizational, …
“The Trademark Document Retrieval (TDR), offers the public an advanced electronic portal to PDF viewing, downloading and printing of an array of information and documents for more than 460,000 trademark applications totaling more than eight million document pages. As new applications are filed, they will be added to the database. It is expected that more …
Press release: “Business.com… announced the addition of “People Search” to its core business search capabilities. “People Search” allows business professionals to easily locate and learn about sales prospects, potential business partners, and job candidates on the Web by searching summaries of 24 million business people via a database… (that) continually scans millions of corporate websites, …
Press Release: “This week, the BBC re-launches its internet Radio Player to make almost every BBC Radio programme available live and on-demand for seven days after broadcast, creating a massive, ever-changing library of music, talk shows, dramas and documentaries.” BBC Radio Homepage
“Baruch College, a senior college within The City University of New York, and Kognito Solutions LLC today announced the release of a free interactive guide to help faculty determine the appropriate copyright guidelines they must follow when using different types of copyrighted media in their courses. Structured as a subway map, the interactive guide asks …
From PubSub, news that they are tracking over 8 million blogs. This represents a huge increase within the past year in the number of blogs now available. Along with this increased visibility, ethical concerns about blog content. From Radio Userland, the Top 100 Most-Subscribed-To RSS Feeds (the list includes Wired, various sections of the New …
Via ReseachBuzz, this posting with news that Google Search now supports queries using up to 32 words, a significant increase over the previous 10 word limit. Thanks to Tara for this information, as there does yet appear to have been an official announcement from Google.
As a follow-up to my January 19 posting, Washington Post Examines Data Aggregator ChoicePoint, again from the Post, an online interview with Robert O’Harrow Jr., author of No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society.
From a post to law-lib today, by Donna Cavallini:” In trying to resolve some corporate data inconsistencies with a customer service representative at Autotrack this morning, I was informed that over the Jan. 29/30 weekend, the company will be performing an extensive corporate data refresh for New Jersey and Delaware, and that the data will …
Another FOIA project by researcher Michael Ravnitzky has yielded detailed information about the availability of several dozen topical legal research resources and guides authored by Justice Libraries staff. Specific titles, along with authors, annotations, and instructions on how to obtain copies of the materials, was posted by Mr. Ravnitzky early this morning to several law …
