“DisabilityInfo.gov [celebrating 5th anniversary] is the federal government’s one-stop Web site for people with disabilities, their families, employers, veterans and service members, workforce professionals and many others. A collaborative effort among twenty-two federal agencies, DisabilityInfo.gov connects people with disabilities to the information and resources they need to a.ctively participate in the workforce and in their… Continue Reading
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House Budget Cmte. Hearing: The Growing Budgetary Costs of the Iraq War
House Budget Committee hearing: The Growing Budgetary Costs of the Iraq War, Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Witness statements as follows: Dr. Peter Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office: Testimony on Estimated Costs of U.S. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism Testimony of Amy Belasco, Congressional Research Service:… Continue Reading
Report – Rising Journal Costs Limit Scholarly Access
Rising Journal Costs Limit Scholarly Access, Emory University: “Are publishers getting rich publishing your research? A Bear-Stearns evaluation of Reed-Elsevier (one of the world’s largest publishers of scholarly journals) recently rated the company, which earns profits of almost 40% annually, “a stockholder’s dream.” Should private publishers be getting rich selling information generated by research that… Continue Reading
Hearing on Google-DoubleClick Merger
9/27/2007 Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, An Examination of the Google-DoubleClick Merger and the Online Advertising Industry: What Are the Risks for Competition and Privacy? Link to hearing witness statements Related postings on Google-DoubleClick Merger Hahn, Robert W. and Singer, Hal J., An Antitrust Analysis of Google’s Proposed Acquisition… Continue Reading
Senate Plans Hearing on Google-Doubleclick Merger
EPIC: “The United States Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled An Examination of the Google-Doubleclick Merger and the Online Advertising Industry: What Are the Risks for Competition and Privacy on Thursday, September 27. Dave Drummond of Google, Brad Smith of Microsoft, Scott Cleland of Precursor, Tom Lenard of the Progress & Freedom Foundation,… Continue Reading
Reading Books in the Digital Age Subsequent to Amazon, Google and the Long Tail
Reading Books in the Digital Age subsequent to Amazon, Google and the long tail by Terje Hillesund, Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway. First Monday, volume 12, number 9 (September 2007), “In the last decades, the book industry has changed and is now characterised by two (or three) opposite tendencies: Many publishing firms… Continue Reading
Consumer Reports Poll: 89 Percent of Americans Want Lawmakers to Restrict the Use of Social Security Numbers
“As Congress and federal regulators consider proposals aimed at reducing the risk of identity theft, a national poll by the Consumer Reports National Research Center reveals that an overwhelming majority of Americans want lawmakers to restrict the use and availability of Social Security numbers by businesses and government agencies. According to the poll, 89 percent… Continue Reading
FTC Approves Issuance of Federal Register Notice Announcing Review of Mail Order Rule
Press release: “The Commission has approved the issuance of a Federal Register notice announcing the start of its decennial review of the FTCs Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule, 16 CFR Part 435 (Mail Order Rule). As detailed in the notice, the Commission is seeking comment on whether to retain the Rule. To guide discussion… Continue Reading
Google's New Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center
“About the Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center – The relationship between Google and AdWords advertisers is built on trust. Advertisers rely on the relevance of our ad placement, our reporting statistics, and the quality of the clicks their ads receive. We take this trust seriously, and we know that AdWords couldn’t exist without it.” Continue Reading
Yahoo Tops Search Engine Satisfaction Survey
American Customer Satisfaction Index, Scores By Industry, Internet Portals/Search Engines, 2007, Commentary by Professor Claes Fornell, The Donald C. Cook Professor of Business Administration, Director, National Quality Research Center, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan: “Yahoo! has also improved. It has always had more users than Google and now it leads in… Continue Reading
ABA Launches New Consumer E-Commerce Site
“Safeselling.org offers a resource for business people launching ecommerce enterprises and for businesses venturing into online sales. First-time entrepreneurs and established small to medium-sized business expanding their horizons should find helpful information on this site about selling goods and services online…Safeselling.org is a companion to safeshopping.org, an earlier project of the Cyberspace Law Committee of… Continue Reading
Team of University of California Researchers Identify "Spamscatter" Technique
PC World: Study Finds Spam’s Achilles Heel – “Researchers say they’ve discovered a critical weakness in the spam infrastructure.” Spamscatter: Characterizing Internet Scam Hosting Infrastructure, David S. Anderson, Chris Fleizach, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, August 2007. See also The New Yorker, Damn Spam, The losing… Continue Reading
