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This May 1, 2005 UK Times article, Blair hit by new leak of secret war plan, is referenced in this May 5, 2005 letter of inquiry (8 pages, PDF) to President Bush, signed by 88 U.S. Representatives. The letter asks five specific questions in an effort to seek verification that the “United States and Great …
Editor and Publisher reports on the recommendations of an 19 member internal audit committee whose 16 pages report includes the following: “Consider creating a Times blog that promotes interaction with readers.” Also of note, the report states, “…we must strengthen and better define the boundary between news and opinion.” The report, “Preserving Our Reader’s Trust” …
WSJ’s free CareerJournal article, Cutting Through Clutter To Find Government Gigs Online is another in the very useful, continuing series titled Jobs Blog.
Knowing When to Log Off – Wired campuses may be causing ‘information overload’. The insights and advice in this article apply equally to those of us not on campuses, but always online and “connected.”
From Federal Computer Week, this article reviews the challenges of digital preservation programs initiated by LC and GPO. The agencies are seeking technology solutions that harvest data on government documents to fulfill directives to digitize collections, archives and websites. Challenges to these initiatives include copyright issues, vast deep web document repositories, and the tremendous scope …
Two recent articles worth review that cite a number of recent surveys, along with accompanying statistics, detailing corporate security leaks. The more general article is from Internetnews.com and notes that Gartner Group research identifies 70% of security breaches as orginating from within organizations. This LabRat Magazine article provides additional references on data leaks as well …
Computerworld reports on how a North Carolina hospital system has launched blogs authored by patients that communicate their experiences with specific medical procedures and treatment regimes.
Declan McCullagh interviewed Harvard net researcher extraordinare Ben Edelman about his ongoing work to identify and inform the public about spyware and adware. Related reference: Spitzer Sets Sights on Spyware – “New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the “sheriff of Wall Street,” has ramped up the staff of his Internet Bureau, and seems to be …
SEC press release:”The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that on May 12, 2005, it will begin the process of publicly releasing comment letters and response letters relating to disclosure filings made after Aug. 1, 2004, and reviewed by the Division of Corporation Finance and the Division of Investment Management. See Press …
From the EFF, Federal Appeals Court Scraps FCC’s Broadcast Flag Mandate Legal documents are here, background information is here. Court yanks down FCC’s broadcast flag
When Those Pesky Blogs Undermine NPR News From the Carnegie Reporter, Spring 2005, What’s the future of the news business? This report to Carnegie Corporation of New York offers some provocative ideas. PowerPoint slides on the survey data above
From Wired, this article Your Identity, Open to All clearly elucidates the privacy issues associated with signficantly increased accessibility to personal data on the web that is aggregated from public domain sources. Questions about the accuracy of this data, its timeliness, the reliability of the sources from which it is extrapolated, and the reasons for …