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This article discusses the pitfalls and the accolades that have accompanied the new vanguard of war news bloggers, many of whom have gained notoriety as well as increased scrutiny of their efforts, including challenges to their content sourcing.
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns (MA) dismissed a lawsuit by the ACLU on behalf of Harvard law student and cyber-activist Ben Edelman who argued a first amendment right to create software to decrypt an Internet blocking program by N2H2. The filtering software, used by public and school libraries, is marketed as “CIPA compliant.” Edelman …
The Washington Post brings more attention to the growing movement in public libraries to pro-actively challenge patron surveillance efforts associated with the Patriot Act. The 64,000 member American Library Association has passed a resolution seeking its repeal, and librarians across the country are taking actions to limit access to patron related online and paper documents.
Bad news for the UK’s approximately 800 e-government sites comes from a report leaked to the press. Apparently, almost 80% of the sites are not published in a format accessible to users with disabilites and require redesign to achieve mandatory compliance.
This AP report briefly describes an innovative new program underway in Iowa, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. It currently includes 150 doctors who will direct patients to reliable sources of health-related information on the web.
Dave Pollard posted this commentary, Why Complex Intranets Don’t Work and ‘Librarians’ Do: Re-intermediation, that appeared as the Library Link of the Day. He makes an interesting case for the continued, if not expanded, need for expert researchers to leverage the demand within organizations for knowledge resources and information.
Darlene Fichter, Web wizard, author, speaker, librarian and one of Library Journal’s 2002 Movers & Shakers: The People Who Are Shaping the Future of Libraries, presented a comprehensive program on blogging at the Internet Librarian International 2003. It comprises 49 page PowerPoint slides, and features an analysis of beSpacific in the “Dissecting a web log” …
Attorney Terry Berger updated his website on resident agent information today. His site provides links to all 43 states that offer this information free online, as well as to those states that have fee-based access or are in the process of migrating to online access.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on April 7 that all Enron e-mails posted on the Commission’s website would be removed temporarily (until April 24). The e-mails are part of a FERC database comprising over 85,000 Enron related documents and over 150,000 document images. This action was in response to Enron’s petition to the …
This New York Times article, Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent, indicates there is a partisan fight afoot on the Hill over a proposal by Sen. Orrin Hatch to make specific provisions of the Patriot Act permanent, rather than allowing them to expire (“sunset”) in 2005 as originally specified. As follows, here is the applicable …
From ABATechShow 2003, here is an updated version of my annotated bibliography (pdf) of federal, state, and advocacy resources on ID theft and fraud. Included are links to pending federal legislation, dozens of topical guides published by federal agencies and state AGs, and links to selected news about recent, high-profile cases of ID theft. Please …
On April 3 I posted on the topic of legislation under consideration in 22 states (and D.C.) to restrict public access to government documents that were deemed to be associated with homeland security. As a follow-up, the Gov. Warner of Virginia has signed two bills, the Sensitive Records Protection Act (HB 2210) and the Freedom …