Special Prosecutor Launches Website On Plame Investigation
The website of Office of Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Related news: Plame plans to sue White House officials
Google CEO Responds to Controversy Over Google Print Program
In following recent postings on opposition to the Google Print Program by publishers and authors, see these corporate responses, from the Official Google Blog: Why we believe in Google Print: “We’ve been asked recently why we’re so determined to pursue Google Print, even though it has drawn industry opposition in the form of two lawsuits, …
Hearing on FEMA’s Response to Hurricane Katrina
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing: Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans: A Flooded City, a Chaotic Response, October 20, 2005. Witnesses Testimony, Panel 1, Marty Bahamonde [PDF], Regional Director, External Affairs, Region One, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “”There was a systematic failure at all levels of …
New on LLRX.com
Reinventing the Empire of Secrecy: An Agenda for the First DNI, by Lee S. Strickland The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project, by Jonathan Band Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements – Revised and Updated, by Marci Hoffman Criminal Justice Ethics Sources on the Internet, by Ken Strutin In the Wake of Katrina …
Schumer Asks For Details About Rove-Bush Conversations On Plame
Press release from New York Senator Charles Schumer: “Today, Sen. Chuck Schumer sent the attached letter to President Bush asking him to detail his conversations with his top political adviser, Karl Rove, about the White House’s leak of the identity of covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame.” Related news, from the New York Times: No Final …
Five Publishers Sue Google Contending Print Program Copyright Violations
Reuters via CNN International: Publishers throw book at Google Related documents and links: Complaint (FindLaw, 36 pages, PDF), McGraw-Hill Companies, et al. v. Google, Inc., October 19, 2005. beSpacific postings on Google Print Program The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project
Enterprise Blogging Catches On
Executive Summary from the Guidewire Group Market Cycle Survey, October 2005: Blogging in the Enterprise (8 pages, PDF) Key findings (140 individual survey respondents): “Corporations of all sizes across a wide array of industries are adopting blogging technologies and practices. 89% of respondents are either blogging or are planning to blog.” “Smaller companies have been …
Yahoo! White Paper on RSS
Yahoo! White Paper on RSS (12 pages, PDF)
Blogs Increasingly Become Target Of and Vehicle for Spam
From the Wall Street Journal free content today: ‘Splogs’ Roil Web, and Some Blame Google. Definition of splog from Wikipedia.
Supreme Court Nominee Miers’ Responses to Judiciary Questionnaire, Financial Data and Texans United for Life
From the New York Times (reg. req’d), links to the following documents in PDF: Senate Judiciary Committee’s Questionnaire (57 pages, PDF) 1989 Questionnaire From Texans United for Life (2 pages, PDF) Financial Statement/Net Worth (2 pages, PDF) Financial Disclosure Report – Nomination Filing (6 pages, PDF) From AP: Disclosure forms of Supreme Court nominee Harriet …
Access to Commercial Email Services Abroad Blocked By Armed Forces
As reported by Stars and Stripes today, “On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps blocked all access to commercial e-mail services, such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, America Online and Google, from overseas government computers…The block includes access to e-mail services from computers at base libraries and liberty centers that are connected to an official government …
Updated Citizen’s Guide on Using FOIA To Obtain Gov’t Docs.
House Report 109-226: A Citizen’s Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 To Request Government Records (85 pages, PDF), September 20. 2005.