Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
Tauzin, Greenwood Step-Up Committee’s Investigation Into Troubled E-Rate Program and sent letters to 13 companies vendors and applicants participating in the program (a copy of which is available at the link above). “As part of an expanded investigation into the troubled E-rate program, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-LA) and Oversight and …
From the 7/15/2003 Library Journal: “As government documents librarians incorporate more digital materials, they are finding that the very shape of their libraries is transformed,” by Marylaine Block. “Like other documents librarians, Carolyn Kohler (government publications librarian at the University of Iowa) has found herself unexpectedly at the forefront of technological change and momentous political …
From the EU eGovernment Conference 2003, 7-8 July 2003: Linking up Europe: the importance of interoperability for e-government services EU Ministerial Declaration on E-Government See also this useful resource on e-gov: National eGovernment sites, which includes Member States national eGovernment websites, Candidate countries national eGovernment websites, EEA/EFTA countries national eGovernment websites, and eGovernment websites worldwide …
Launched July 8, “OMB Watch’s new weblog will cover a wide range of tax and budget issues, and will be updated throughout the week by OMB Watch budget staff.”
From the U.S. Census Bureau, Facts & Features: On July 26, 1990, President George Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, guaranteeing equal opportunity for people with disabilities in public accommodations, commercial facilities, employment, transportation, state and local government services and telecommunications. 49.7 million: Number of people age 5 and over in the …
Remote Online Usability Testing: Why, How, and When to Use It. From the article: “…in-person usability testing isnt always feasible. Projects take longer than expected, budgets get tightened, and target users can be hard to come by. So whats a usability crusader to do when in-person usability testing is impossible? One option is to conduct …
NITLE Blog Census. Glad to say that beSpacific is included in this MySQL database of over 600,000 weblogs published worldwide (net.law.blog). From the site’s About Page: The NITLE Blog Census is an attempt to create and share a regularly updated database of all known weblogs. The census has been active since early May, 2003. Our …
Status Report on ALAs Redesigned Web Site.
Wiley Technology Publishing has determined that its publication of a planned forthcoming book, Hacking the Xbox, may have resulted in a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), prompting the author to find a new publisher, who plans to distribute the book later this month.
Yahoo will pay $1.63 billion for Overture. Yahoo! Reports Second Quarter 2003 Financial Results (PDF), Company Posts Second Quarter Operating Income of $63 Million, Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization of $97 Million With One Sweep, Yahoo Regains Search Engine Dominance Why Google Should Be Worried
Search engine personalization: An exploratory study. From the abstract: “Findings show that: (1) eight (13 percent) of the 60 search engines, including Yahoo, AOL, Lycos, Excite and Netscape, enabled some level of personalization; and, (2) personalization features are largely related to e-mail, business and financial information, searching of a reference tool, such as yellow pages, …
Problems with the Department of the Interior’s management and operations of its web sites is the focus of a recent Inspector General Report, issued in June. The introduction to the 42 page evaluation report (pdf) states that Interior “needs to manage its web sites more efficiently, cost-effectively, and securely; and focus on its customers.” Report …