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Those Pesky Passwords – Too many and too complicated to remember, passwords make users crazy and incur help desk expense. What should you do about it? by Larry Ponemon: “Passwords as a security measure do not seem to be working. In Ponemon Institute’s newly released Perceptions about Passwords study, most respondents report that in the …
From Microsoft Research, Photo2Search: Explore the Real World via Camera Phone “Seeking information about something seen, a user takes a photo of the object and sends the photo, via e-mail or Multimedia Messaging Service, to a Web-based server, which searches an image database for matches. The server then delivers database informationwhether it be a Web …
Information Sharing: The Federal Government Needs to Establish Policies and Processes for Sharing Terrorism-Related and Sensitive but Unclassified Information, Full-text GAO-06-385, March 17, 2006, Highlights. “More than 4 years after September 11, the nation still lacks governmentwide policies and processes to help agencies integrate the myriad of ongoing efforts, including the agency initiatives we identified, …
From ALA, this guide to 2005-2006 Congressional PATRIOT Act Votes and Library Funding Support, which includes “a record of how your Members of Congress voted for the PATRIOT Act reauthorization and for funding for libraries. Please refer to their voting record when you meet with them during National Library Legislative Day.”
“HealthNewsReview.org is a website dedicated to: improving the accuracy of news stories about medical treatments, tests and procedures ; helping consumers evaluate the evidence for and against new ideas in health care. We support and encourage the ABCs of health journalism: Accuracy, Balance, Completeness…HealthNewsReview.org reviews news stories that make a therapeutic claim about: specific treatments, …
Follow-up to April 4, 2006 posting, IRS Hearing on Privacy Standards and Sale of Taxpayer Data, this related April 3 press release: “Forty-seven Attorneys General submitted a letter (9 pages, PDF) to the Internal Revenue Service objecting to proposed IRS rules that would make it easier for businesses to share and use personal information included …
A Performance Review of FEMA’s Disaster Management Activities in Response to Hurricane Katrina (PDF, 218 pages), 04/14/2006. “This report assesses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) performance as it conducted its disaster management responsibilities in response to Hurricane Katrina. We examined whether the laws, regulations, policies, procedures, plans, guidelines, and resources were adequate and operational, …
Blogging Libraries Wiki includes: Academic Libraries – Public Libraries – School Libraries – Special Libraries – Internal Blogs. [Note these sites, unlike beSpacific and LLRX, no longer exist – but I welcome suggestions!] But do try http://librarywikis.pbworks.com/w/page/17064483/Collaboration%20between%20Libraries
“..the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) conducted its second annual survey of the 55 state homeland security directors during December 2005 and January 2006. The results of this survey reflect the responses of 40 homeland security directors from the states, territories, and commonwealths comprising the United States….At all levels of government, …
Press release: “The Commission has authorized the staff to release publicly the 28th Annual Report to Congress on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This report…summarizes the Commission’s administration and enforcement of the FDCPA during 2005. It presents an overview of the types of consumer complaints received by the Commission, descriptions of the Commission’s …
“ISAR provides industry benchmarks for Web site development and is based on data collected from 9,748 Web site evaluations since 1997. The report evaluates average scores in more than 80 industries to create defined benchmarks in seven categories, including design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use.” The Internet Standards Assessment Report (ISAR), …
A Performance Review of FEMA’s Disaster Management Activities in Response to Hurricane Katrina (PDF, 218 pages), 04/14/2006. Related postings on Katrina