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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Removes Data From Public Access

Notice from the November 18, 2004 Federal Register: “SUMMARY: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to remove its Flight Information Publications (FLIP), Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF), and related aeronautical safety of navigation digital and hardcopy publications from public sale and distribution…The DAFIF and related digital aeronautical information files will be protected from general …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet

Yahoo! Partners With OCLC on Toolbar with WorldCat Searching

Yahoo! Toolbar with WorldCat searching of library materials

Subjects: Libraries, Search Engines

Berkeley Researchers Document Florida E-Voting Discrepancies

The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support for Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections by Michael Hout, Laura Mangels, Jennifer Carlson, and Rachel Best, with the assistance of the UC Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team. The link to the Summary of findings (PDF) the full text report (PDF) and the report data. …

Subjects: E-Government

Report Highlights Need for Qualified Gov’t Appointed Science and Technology Experts

From the National Academies press release: “To tackle increasingly complex issues, U.S. policy-makers should ensure that both the presidential appointment process for senior science and technology posts and the process of appointing experts to federal S&T advisory committees operate more quickly and transparently, says a new report from the National Academies.”

Subjects: Freedom of Information

Google Launches New Search Interface For “Scholarly” Literature

From the FAQ About Google Scholar: “Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly …

Subjects: Legal Research, Search Engines

beSpacific Added to Librarian’s Index to the Internet

I am pleased to have been indexed by lii.org.

Subjects: Blogs

Government Agencies Slowly Adopt RSS Feeds

From Wired, RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy. See also RSS in Government

Subjects: E-Government, RSS

TSA Issues Final Rule on Secure Flight Program

This final rule (35 pages, PDF) lists the requirements for 72 aircraft operators in the United States, stipulating that all their respective passenger name records (PNRs), “containing itineraries for domestic flights operated under a full security program and for which all flights segments… were flown between June 1, 2004 and June 30, 2004,” must be …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Privacy

Advanced Look At MSN’s New Desktop Search Tool

Exclusive: MSN Desktop Search Revealed includes screens shots of the new utility that will be released in December as part of the MSN Toolbar Suite. (via Slashdot)

Subjects: E-Mail, Search Engines

CRS Report on Regs Requiring Air Passengers to Show Gov’t ID

Interstate Travel: Constitutional Challenges to the Identification Requirement and Other Transportation Security Regulations, Congressional Research Service, November 4, 2004 (via Secrecy News) Related postings on Gilmore v. Ashcroft: Requirement to Show ID for Ground and Air Transport

Subjects: Government Documents

Dow Jones Buys MarketWatch.com

Dow Jones to buy MarketWatch for $520M: “MarketWatch Inc., which owns the CBS.MarketWatch.com Web site, agreed to be bought by Dow Jones & Co. for $520 million on Sunday, ending a month-long bidding war for the online financial news and information provider.”

Subjects: Legal Research

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