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Conservators Restore Rare Books Damaged In Yale Blast: Water From Sprinklers Damages About 300 Books. “About 300 rare books — the major casualties of Wednesday’s bomb explosion at Yale Law School — are being treated by expert conservators. Librarians catalogued and bagged the books, then moved them into a blast freezer at Yale’s Beinecke Rare …
Via Politechbot, the text of the Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act of 2003, (43 pages, pdf) introduced May 22 by Rep. Richard Burr, (R-NC) in another effort to stem the tide of unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). For other related information on state and federal anti-spam legislation that I have posted, see this link. Also …
Sen. Debra Bowen’s bill, SB 12, “would…prohibit a person or entity from initiating an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement either from California or to a California electronic mail address. The bill would also make it unlawful for a person or entity to collect electronic mail addresses posted on the Internet, or to sell or provide a …
The Alaska legislature passed House Joint Resolution 22 stating “it is the policy of the State of Alaska to oppose any portion of the USA Patriot Act that would violate the rights and liberties guaranteed equally under the state and federal constitutions.” According to the ACLU, “Alaska’s resolution is the 114th of its kind to …
From the press release: “The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property approved H.R. 1561, the United States Patent and Trademark Fee Modernization Act of 2003. The Department of Commerce’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is fully funded by user fees. The new fee structure contained in the legislation will fund …
Experts Say Technology Is Widely Disseminated Inside and Outside Military – “Congressional efforts to rein in a Pentagon surveillance project may be ineffective because new surveillance technology is being widely disseminated both inside and outside of the military and other less visible federal offices are pursuing similar research, industry executives and computer scientists say.”
An update to my April 23 posting on the Summit on Web Credibility – Here is a link to edited transcripts of presentations made at the conference, wherein Experts Discuss Paid vs. ‘Pure’ Search Results. Said experts are from Hewlett-Packard, Google, Overture, ConsumerReports.org and Consumer WebWatch.
See the following updates on The Eric Eldred Act website: The Eric Eldred Act FAQ What precisely are we talking about? (a one-page discussion draft – “To allow unused copyrighted works to enter the public domain after 50 years, while allowing copyright owners the full protection of the established copyright term.”)
Kudos to Tara Calishain and co-author Rael Dornfest, whose book, Google Hacks, is on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller List!
The Chronicle of Higher Education published the text of a dialogue, New Approaches to File Sharing, between Penn State President Graham Spanier and students from throughout the country and abroad. Issues addressed included the possible institution of fees for using P2P applications via campus networks, acceptable use policies, the implementation of legitimate file sharing applications …
Search Privacy: An Issue?, Part 1 Danny Sullivan details Google’s privacy and data collection policies.
Business Is Toying With a Web Tool puts the spotlight on an innovative, user friendly open-source tool called a wiki, used to create inter-related web pages. Not new to the scene (the technology was first used in 1995), but perhaps ready to be embraced along the lines of blogging applications, wiki technology offers many interesting …