New DOE Website on Energy Saving Resources

Just in time for what is already a cold winter in many parts of the country, the Department of Energy launched a new website, Energy Saving Tips that includes information on: where to shop for energy efficient appliances and low-priced gas in your area, vehicle fuel efficiency data, as well on rebates and tax incentives …

Subjects: E-Government

Website Provides Searchable Database and Free Downloads of Thousands of E-Books

Manybooks.net, Free eBooks for your PDA “This site contains more than 10,000 eBooks (see Project Gutenberg) formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, eBookWise-1150, or Symbian cellphone. When eBooks are added to the site they’re listed on the Recent Additions page.” [via Hot Links] Users may browse the site by Authors, Titles, Categories, …

Subjects: Internet

OMB Report Recommends E-Gov’t Goals for 2005

Expanding E-Government, Partnering for a Results-Oriented Government “Our goal is to be the best manager, innovator and user of information, services and information systems in the world. There are great opportunities to apply existing and emerging business best practices to government to achieve increases in productivity and delivery of services and information. We will be …

Subjects: E-Government

FTC Requires Telemarketers to Purge Numbers Every 31 Days

From the FTC, Telemarketers Required to “Scrub” Their Call Lists Every 31 Days Beginning January 1, 2005. “Beginning January 1, 2005, the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) will require telemarketers to access the National Do Not Call Registry and purge newly-registered numbers from their call lists every 31 days. The TSR currently requires …

Subjects: E-Government, Privacy

Survey on Info Overload

From Lois C. Ambash, news of her current project, InfoYou, which “is an instrument for assessing and addressing information overload. Based on many people’s responses, the InfoYou questionnaire is designed to yield personalized information tool kits to help people and organizations tame information overload according to their own styles and preferences for dealing with information.” …

Subjects: Internet

Bush Signs Legislation Establishing Director of National Intelligence

From the National Security Archive: “Today, President Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act, establishing the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and ending the 57-year reign of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) as the nation’s chief intelligence officer. Throughout those 57 years, similar reorganization proposals have emerged from inside and …

Subjects: Government Documents