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The non-profit association, EDUCAUSE, maintains a regularly updated online chart in Excel that tracks technology-related legislation for the 108th Congress. The chart indicates issue, bill number, related bill, last action (date), committee/subcommittee, and whether the bill is active. There are currently 51 entries on issues including privacy, ID theft, broadband and spam.
According to the Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002, the kids.us domain will be a “haven for material that promotes positive experiences for children and families using the Internet.” This task poses significant challenges to those who plan to publish and maintain “G” rated-only content beginning this September. Related posting: President Signs Kids …
From FAS, an excerpt from H.R. 1588, the National Defense Authorization for Fiscal Year 2004 as reported in the House (House Report 108-106, Part 1 and Part 2 (*note, these are very long documents), on the Expansion of the Defense Counterintelligence Polygraph Program.
Broadening the Vision for KM (PowerPoint), by Tom Bartley, Sally Gonzalez, Peter Krakaur, and Pulling It All Together, STELLA – Knowledge Matters – A KM Case Study (PowerPoint), by Jean Anne McLeod.
Understanding Online’s Value Proposition, an article by writer, speaker and consultant Robert Spears, presents an overview of a diverse range of websites and online services that consumers have determined provide content that justifies a fee. This short but interesting commentary is part of an upcoming book, Strategic Convergence: The Path to Sustainable Profits.
An update on knowledge management incentives reviews the successes and failures of programs used by high profile companies such as Siemens and Hill & Knowlton to encourage and sustain employee participation in building intranets and knowledge manangement applications.
The Accidental Webmaster, by Julie M. Still, reference librarian at Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey.
Firms Take Hard Line on Law Directories spotlights the growing competition among global legal publishers for a share of the lucrative legal directory marketplace, as well as highlights other online marketing and branding strategies available to high-profile firms.
Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who sponsored the Freedom to Read Protection Act, (H.R. 1157), will present the keynote at the opening session of the Joint Annual Conference of the American Library Association and Canadian Library Association, in Toronto on June 21.
PCWorld has an important article on the implications of and serious ramifications that result when powerful encryption technologies used to protect individual privacy are also exploited in increasingly sophisticated ways by groups planning terrorist acts.
Naked in Cyberspace, How To Find Personal Information Online, 2nd Edition, reviewed by Stephen Lafferty.
Updated WinZip Alters Zip Format. “WinZip 9.0, from the market leader among file-compression utilities, has entered public beta with scheduled release later this year, bringing with it a new .zip format–which means some of its functions will not be compatible with earlier versions or other programs.”