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Creating a Unified Digital Campus to Satisfy the Needs of 21st Century Learners:..”institutions must strive to unify all of their disparate technology applications and systems into a single digital campus.” From the Michigan Virtual University.
See Search Engines by Search Features by Greg Notess for a useful comparison of search engines according to their specific features (Boolean Capabilities and Constraints, Proximity, Truncation & Stemming, Case Sensitivity, Field searching, Limits and more).
“The U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery sent a letter to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget offering comment on their work to develop privacy guidelines for e-communications between government agencies and the public.” From the letter: “In particular, we are offering comments on the development of public …
Knowledge in a Click! by Robert J. Ambrogi references a number of websites and portals focused on KM applications related to or specific to the legal environment.
Agenda, last updated April 29, 2003 (pdf) Panelist Biographies (pdf) FTC SPAM EMAIL Website (This website has information about the Federal Trade Commissions recent law enforcement actions against deceptive commercial email and spammers who dont honor their “remove me” claims) Educational Materials from the Conference: You’ve Got Spam: How to “Can” Unwanted Emails (pdf) Email …
The recording industry agreed to settlements of the copyright infringement lawsuits, filed separately against four college students on April 3, in federal courts in New York, Michigan and New Jersey. According to AP, the fines are as follows: “Princeton University student Daniel Peng and Michigan Tech student Joseph Nievelt each agreed to pay $15,000 in …
Andrew Adkins, director of the Legal Technology Institute at the University of Florida, is the author of Knowledge Management: Simple Concept, Difficult Reality (reg req’d). He describes what he terms the “big six” pieces of KM software as well as recommended guidelines to launch and implement a successful KM program.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the New Jersey Institute of Technology “has banned the use of file-sharing programs on the institute’s network.” Efforts to educate the community about the consequences of using P2P applications did not result in changes in behavior, according to the Dean of Students. Is this the beginning of a …
WHO WAS, WHOIS, AND WHO WILL BE: Domain Name Ownership Research Tools by Mark Goldstein.
The Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Markle Foundation have announced the launch of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Database, which “provides Internet users worldwide with free access to precedents regarding disputes over Web addresses, giving parties the tools necessary to better prepare for Web-based cases than ever before. The …
Via the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, news that Attorney General Ashcroft has submitted a report “pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, Title 50, United States Code, Section 1807, as amended,” as acknowledged in this letter. The letter states, “1228 applications were made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for electronic surveillance …
Why Blogs Haven’t Stormed the Business World is a commentary on the inherent impediments to implementing enterprise-wide blogging tools due to issues such as application interoperability, the volume of data involved, and the hierarchy used for information storage.