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“2004 Pew Internet & American Life surveys reveal that more than four in ten online Americans instant message (IM). That reflects about 53 million American adults who use instant messaging programs. About 11 million of them IM at work and they are becoming fond of its capacity to encourage productivity and interoffice cooperation.” [Link] How …
A DoD video produced as a teaching tool for citizens to learn about access to government documents was edited due to concerns that footage included was subject to copyright restrictions. This report from AP also states that a FOIA request to obtain a copy of the video (clips of which are available at this url: …
Via Metafilter, this website provides a startling array of continually updated statistics on topics including population, government and economics, education, the environment, food, energy and health. Check this out!
“Officials at the Commerce Department’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently began publishing patent examiners’ decisions on the Web for all prospective inventors to see, as part of a new system called Public Patent Application Information Retrieval, or PAIR.” [Link] See my related posting from August 2 here.
“Welcome to the digital library of MIT Theses, a collection of selected MIT master’s and doctoral theses available online. Please note that this is NOT a complete collection of MIT theses. It includes only theses that were scanned by Document Services in the past few years, for printing or electronic delivery to requesters. The range …
Grokster and the Information Exchange
2 Universities Team Up to Create Free, Open-Source Financial Software for Campuses
Hackers hijack federal computers
Scientists want research papers freely available The PDF text of the Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by by 25 Nobel Prize Winners
The Audit Trail System for Detecting Improper Activities on Modernized Systems Is Not Functioning (link to HTML version). From Federal Computer Week: “A software problem prevents users from querying the system that tracks when IRS financial data is accessed.”
From Blogoscoped, this Quote Finder “checks possible sources or quotations for every sentence of a text using Google.”
Medical Records May Go Online – “Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to build a secure database of patient records.” [link via D. Cavallini] Related references and resources are as follows: Office of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator (ONCHIT), created by Executive Order 13335, signed April 27, 2004. Your Medical History on …