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The scale, scope and challenges inherent in the successful implementation of large-scale e-gov initiatives is well defined by this article, NASA rethinks Web site approach, which states that “the agency has more than 3,000 Web sites hosting 4 million pages of information,” which it is now working to make accessible via the main website.
From Spamabuse.net, this link to spam e-mail blocking and filtering applications/services (free and commercial) available to Windows, Mac and Linux users.
The Institute for Government Innovation at Harvard Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government announced the five winners of their prestigious Innovations in American Government Awards. Referred to as the ‘Oscar’ for government sites, FirstGov is among this year’s distinguished list.
From the Washington Times, Hill assumes oversight role on airline screening: “Congress has given itself special oversight authority to track a new airline screening process criticized by some lawmakers as an infringement on privacy and civil liberties.” This article refers to the enrolled version of S. 165 (pdf), an act to improve air cargo security, …
On May 8, Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts introduced S. 1025: “An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.” See also the accompanying report …
See Google Branches Out Again with Overseas News, Google News comes to UK, and via Research Buzz, with cascading attribution as follows: “A tip of the hat to Microdoc for announcing that Google’s got a new international version of their news search at http://news.google.com.au. (The Microdoc story is at http://tinyurl.com/bj8y) A tip of the hat …
This New York Times article, Library’s robot is a real page-turner, available via the International Herald Tribune, describes a fascinating, ambitious, costly, technically challenging and also interesting from the perspective of fair use, project underway at the Stanford University Libraries. Using a robotic book scanner from 4DigitalBooks, the libraries are undertaking projects to digitize their …
A new 28 page ACLU report (pdf), Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America, documents instances of “censorship, surveillance, detention, denial of due process and excessive force” on the part of the government. See the press release here.
Two new articles of note from the May 2003 issue of First Monday: Creating the Digital Future by Robert T. Coonrod, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and What is a library anymore, anyway?
The Federal Trade Commissions Bureau of Consumer Protection announced its sponsorship of new workshops on “Technologies for Protecting Personal Information” to be held on May 14 and June 4, 2003. “The workshops are intended to explore the role of technology in helping consumers and businesses to protect consumer information.” The agenda for the May 14 …
Although I already posted a link to this article on May 7, Google CEO Has No Near Term Plans for IPO, I did not pick-up on a statement highlighted by The Register in an article posted today. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt stated: “Soon the company will also offer a service for searching Web logs, …
The House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, held a hearing on May 8, The Importance of the National Credit Reporting System to Consumers and the U.S. Economy. See this link for full-text access to the opening statements of Representative Carolyn Maloney and Representative Rubén Hinojosa, as well as testimony …