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From the California Voter Foundation, the California Online Voter Guide, launched yesterday, “serves up nonpartisan information on California propositions, the Presidential election, congressional races, and state legislative contests.”
“Feedster is working to ensure everyone’s voice is heard by making political Feedpapers, up-to-the-minute digests of RSS-based news and blog commentary, available to all the campaigns and bloggers. In less than a minute, you can associate your blog with the candidates and parties you support and make sure your voice is heard.” [Link]
Today Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) announced the company “is partnering with TIME to create a complete digital (searchable) archive containing every issue of the publication since its inception (1923-present),” to be released in May (to subscribers).
“Google Inc. today announced it expanded the breadth of its web index to more than 6 billion items…Google’s collection of 6 billion items comprises 4.28 billion web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages.” [Link] Search wars are about to get personal indicates that although Google …
Excerpt from a January 28 press release from comScore Networks on their December 2003 survey assessing the impact of political websites: “…more than 40 percent of visitors reported that political sites have increased their interest in learning more about issues or candidates. Nearly 30 percent of visitors told comScore that they are more actively involved …
The recent release of a GAO report critical of the airline passenger screening program to be implemented this summer has intensified calls for Congressional hearings on the privacy and civil liberties issues associated with CAPPS II data collection. EFF Privacy Coalition Presses Congress for Hearings on Air Travel EFF Coalition letter asking for Congressional hearings …
Another article from PC Magazine, Spy Stoppers, details how easily spyware programs can infiltrate your PC, and the tremendous challenge they pose to disable. According to one anti-spyware company, Webroot Software, whose product Spy Sweeper 2.2 is ranked best in a survey accompanying this article, “80 percent of PCs are infected.”
From PC Magazine, Identity Theft: What, Me Worry? is a useful article that documents the experiences of one couple who were victims of “low-tech” fraud, offers a series of steps to protect against such crimes, a guide to e-gov resources and credit bureau telephone numbers and web links, as well as a list of check …
The Privacy Trust Survey recently conducted on behalf of the CIO Institute indicates: “that the majority of Americans surveyed 83 percent — consider privacy a matter that is important or very important to them. However, many respondents indicated they have a high level of uncertainty about the government agencies that collect and use that …
From today’s press release: “CourtEXPRESS, a national leader in online docket research and retrieval from U.S. Courts, announced today the introduction of retrieval services for international courts and tribunals…Orders for such dockets and documents can be submitted through the CourtEXPRESS web site, just as done for U.S. materials.”
The European Library service will be a portal which offers integrated access to the combined resources of the national libraries of Europe. It will offer free searching for both digital and non-digital resources and will deliver digital objects – some free, some priced. At launch there will be no central authentication mechanisms, any authentication will …
Tara Calishain wrote a recent article in PC Magazine reviewing half a dozen search engine toolbar applications.