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Reading Between the Lines of Used Book Sales. Related references from the article: Ghose, Anindya, Smith, Michael D. and Telang, Rahul, Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Implications and Policy Issues (August 25, 2004). Goolsbee, Austan, and Chevalier, Judy, Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks, (42 pages, …
See today’s Wall Street Journal free feature, How Media Split Under Pressure In the Leak Probe.
Financial Market Organizations Have Taken Steps to Protect against Electronic Attacks, but Could Take Additional Actions, GAO-05-679R, June 29, 2005. “We found that all seven of the selected financial market organizations are taking steps to prevent their operations from being disrupted by electronic attacks. Each of the organizations had implemented the five major elements of …
Excerpt from John Battelle’s forthcoming book, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture.
“This edition is a hypertext interpretation of the CRS text. It links to Supreme Court opinions, the U.S. Code, and the Code of Federal Regulations, as well as enhancing navigation through linked footnotes and tables of contents.” [Link]
Press release: “The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched a Web site dedicated to small businesses and protecting their intellectual property (IP), both in the U.S. and abroad. Specifically designed to answer common questions of small businesses so they can better identify and address their protection needs, the new …
“Slaw is a co-operative weblog about Canadian legal research and the impact of technology on it. Our audience includes practicing lawyers, legal librarians, legal academics and students anyone, in short, who uses IT in researching the law. The aim is to share information, offer advice and instruction, and occasionally provoke.” [Connie Crosby]
A new article from the 8/15/05 issue of Forbes, Google Isn’t Everything, serves as a useful reminder that public libraries throughout the country offer users access to a vast range of online subscription services, absolutely free. While Yahoo is beta testing a service that permits users to locate news, articles and other resources from selected …
The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on July 27, Old Scams New Victims: Breaking The Cycle of Victimization. Link to member statements and witness testimony Related references: FTC Testimony: Identifying and Fighting Consumer Fraud Against Older Americans Fraud and Identity Theft Complaints Received by the Federal Trade Commission From Consumers …
Whose Work Is It, Anyway? – “The use of ‘orphan works’ of art and literature, whose creators cannot be identified, puts scholars and artists at odds over changes in copyright law.” Related references: Tobe Liebert’s article, The Problem of Orphan Works, published on LLRX.com, May 15, 2005. Solum, Lawrence B., The Future of Copyright, Texas …
“The focus of this white paper is to describe the basic workings of a new capability, the Microsoft® Phishing Filter, that will be included in the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7. The Microsoft Phishing Filter will not only help provide consumers with a dynamic system of warning and protection against potential phishing attacks, but …
We Are the Web – “The Netscape IPO wasn’t really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer – behold the power of the people…In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our collective story and put them in …