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New York Times, Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies, speculates on Google’s potential plans to broaden the company’s e-commerce endeavors, including property listings in conjunction with mapping, searching, and satellite projects currently extant, and comparison pricing for a range of consumer goods.
Washington Post (reg. req’d) – Bush Orders Staff to Attend Ethics Briefings – White House Counsel to Give ‘Refresher’ Course: From the President’s memo: “…the White House counsel’s office will conduct a series of presentations next week that will provide refresher lectures on general ethics rules, including the rules of governing the protection of classified …
Editor and Publisher: CBS Poll Finds Public Takes Plamegate Seriously Washington Post: Bush’s Popularity Reaches New Low – 58 Percent in Poll Question His Integrity Poll conducted by Zogby: Majority of likely voters support considering impeachment over Iraq, 53-42 percent The poll found that 53% agreed with the statement: “If President Bush did not tell …
Financial Times (no fee req’d) – James Boyle: Webs never-to-be-repeated revolution
Speculation, commentary, and references to prevarication have followed in the wake of the Libby indictment. Add to the mix this article today by John Dean, A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse? Reading Between the Lines of the Libby Indictment and the new Zogby poll, Survey reflects troubled times for the President at home and abroad.
Press release: Amazon.com Announces Plans for Innovative Digital Book Programs: “…the company is currently developing two new programs that will enable customers to purchase online access to any page, section, or chapter of a book, as well as the book in its entirety. The first program, Amazon Pages, will “un-bundle” the physical-world experience of buying …
Rolling Stone: The New Web Slingers – Politcal bloggers scoop the mainstream media on Plamegate. “Bloggers now routinely break the major stories of the day. And their reports are getting sucked into the twenty-four-hour news cycle…Bloggers go where the mainstream media fears to tread.”
Press release (PDF): NCLIS Launches New Web site.
Google press release: “Today, Google Inc. announced the availability of the first large collection of public domain books on Google Print. This collection, scanned as part of the companys book digitization project with several of the worlds largest libraries, includes works such as U.S. Civil War history books, government documents, the writings of Henry James …
Follow-up on Patriot Act reauthorization and libraries, from the ACLU: “In the first federal appeals court argument addressing a surveillance provision of the Patriot Act, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged a three-judge panel to uphold two separate rulings: one which found the National Security Letter (NSL) authority of the Patriot Act unconstitutional and …
FDA press release: “In a continuing effort to use modern information technology to help inform the public and health care providers and to further improve patient safety, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today began requiring drug manufacturers to submit prescription drug label information to FDA in a new electronic format. This electronic format will …
Press release: Microsoft Advocates Comprehensive Federal Privacy Legislation Q & A: Microsoft’s general counsel, Brad Smith, and chief privacy strategist, Peter Cullen, discuss how proposed U.S. laws affecting data privacy would impact consumers, businesses and the technology industry. White Paper (Word doc.) – White Paper: Protecting Consumers and the Marketplace: The Need for Federal Privacy …