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Statements of Administration Policy (July 7, 2004) H.R. 4754, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2005 [Link, 3 pages, PDF] “If legislation were presented to the President that includes any provision that forces the courts to allow notice to criminal suspects before a search warrant is executed, …
The Four-Letter Word That Can Get People Excited About Your Products: “What do George Bush and John Kerry, IBM, and thousands of small businesses have in common? They all use a Web logor “blog” for shortto reach potential customers and get them interested in their products. But not all do so with equal success.”
Statement of Dara Corrigan Acting Principal Deputy Inspector General Department of Health and Human Services on Thomas Scully and Richard Foster Investigation (PDF) “Based on our investigation, we conclude that: CMS did not provide premium estimates that had been requested by Members of Congress. Additionally, CMS did not provide Congressional staff with some overall estimates …
Today the House Administration Committee held a hearing on Electronic Voting System Security. See this article on the hearing , which includes a statement fromTadayoshi Kohno of the UC San Diego Cryptography and Security Laboratory – “It is possible to have secure-enough paperless machines…But we dont have those machines today, and we cant have them …
From the WSJ Personal Technology site, Blogs Can Help You Cope With Data Overload, If You Manage Them, addresses how newsreaders can help blog aficionados stay current with all the latest postings from a burgeoning community of content. Of note, Bloglines will be adding “unobtrusive Google-style ads to bring in revenue.” The author also mentions …
The AALL Blog: Boston 2004 (includes RSS feed) provides program and meeting updates, info on receptions, roundtables, and links to local area resources, both practical (such as a page on Internet access in the area) and pleasurable (recommended dining, book stores, sight seeing).
According to this National Security Archive press release, more than 2.4 million FOIA requests have been filed since the law was signed on July 4, 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson, “at a yearly cost of just over $1 per citizen.” The Archive commemorates the importance of this law by publishing “an itemized list of 38 …
From the WSJ today ($$), A Guide to Some of the Internet’s Best — And Most Overlooked — Health Sites. For more substantive treatment of this issue (no pun intended), see the monthly column on LLRX.com, Metaforix@Health, and Gloria Miccioli’s Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2003 Update.
According to AP, Clinton’s collection of presidential materials and documents, totally about 630 tons, of which 80 million pages are designated as official documents, are now on their way to his library. The Clinton Presidential Center currently allows the public to “browse over 20,000 documents in 400+ categories.”
Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use. Democratic campaign party websites are using open source apps, and the Republicans are using Microsoft. See also Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, (56 pages, PDF), a study by GW’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet.
According to the Center for Digital Governments’ 2004 Digital Counties Survey, the list of the top 10 digital county governments is led by San Diego County, California, followed by Johnson County, Kansas, Prince William County, Virginia, Roanoke County, Virginia, and Charles County, Maryland.
This PCWorld.com article doesn’t cover any new territory, but it succinctly examines the increasingly competitive quest of search engines for greater profits and the resulting impact on search results.