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From Ben Edelman, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School: Survey of Domain Registration Services – “Numerous competitive registrars offer diverse domain registration services to individuals, companies, and organizations. This site attempts to index and analyze their service offerings, facilitating analysis by other researchers and in preparation for additional analysis by the author.” …
Who Runs the .GOV and .EDU Domains?
Internet Filters and Public Libraries by David L. Sobel is a new report (20 pages, pdf) that examines the June 23, 2003 Supreme Court ruling on the Childrens Internet Protection Act.
Plan for UN to run internet ‘will be shelved’: “An attempt by developing countries to put management of the internet under United Nations auspices is likely to be shelved at next month’s world information summit in Geneva – but the issue is now firmly on the international agenda, summit sources say…The critics argue that the …
World Privacy Forum, 2003 Job Search Privacy Study (81 pages, pdf) – Job Searching in the Networked Environment: Consumer Privacy Benchmarks
As a follow-up to my posting on October 29, LC Grants Limited Digital Copyright Exemptions, Attorney James S. Tyre of the Censorware Project posted this entry on his blog, Censorware Exemption to DMCA Anti-circumvention Provisions In Effect For Another Three Years, that includes the full text of the Register’s recommendation in support of the censorware …
From Denise Howell’s blog, What Has Your Blawg Done For You, Your Clients, Your Profession, Lately? Issues addressed include: Blawgs For Professional Development Blawgs As Devoted, Low Cost, Personal PR Experts Blawgs As Conversations
From The Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT): Message Deleted? Resolving Physician-Patient E-mail through Contract Law, by Michael A. McCann – “This article examines the impact of e-mail on the physician-patient relationship, and how contract law can resolve the uncertainties incumbent in this nascent form of communication.”
According to News.com, Microsoft will include a a pop-up blocker in the new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP, early next year.
Noted author Umberto Eco delivered a speech on 10/11/03 at the Library of Alexandria on the future of books in which he stated: “Libraries, all over the centuries, have been the most important way to keep our collective wisdom. They were and still are a sort of universal brain where we can retrieve what we …
Companies largely ignore Web sites lambasting them: Many corporations choose to ignore criticism of their products and/or services on websites created to give voice to dissatisfied customers, whose comments in turn may or may not have merit.
From FCW.com: The Labor Department today launched a new version of GovBenefits.gov that includes information on benefits programs in 20 states, taking another step toward making the Web portal a truly governmentwide source for citizens.