This New York Times article focuses on the issues that will confront government agencies in 2003 as they work to comply with the requirements of the new E-Government Act. The act has the dual purpose of creating comprehensive, user-friendly portals to government documents that are currently widely dispersed among various agencies, along with providing a… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2002
Financial Data Disappearing From Corporate Websites
In this article, Companies Are Divided on Providing Online Data, the New York Times examines the growing trend among corporate websites to limit the amount of financial data they make available to investors, who often make corporate sites their first stop when conducting research. While some companies choose to continue to provide a deep archive… Continue Reading
E-Mail As Evidence in Fraud Trial
U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff, Southern District of New York, ruled that what he termed “explosive” e-mail messages authored by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Vice Chairman Donald Layton could be used as evidence in the bank’s lawsuit against 11 insurance companies over $1 billion in unpaid loan guarantees stemming from the collapse of… Continue Reading
Government Surveillance Tools Operational
Recent news articles point to a growing controvery over proposed surveillance programs to collect and review personal data generated by daily online transactions by citizens. This New York Times article, Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running, concludes that the foundation for much of the work to conduct widespread surveillance has already been… Continue Reading
White House Responds to Privacy Controversy
Negative responses continued to reverberated in the press after the White House announcement last week of plans to expand monitoring of Internet usage. Internet News reports that the White House was busy doing damage control over the privacy issues that are at the heart of The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (draft version), the details… Continue Reading
NJ E-Filing for Deeds, Mortgages
Newsday reports that more than half of New Jersey’s county clerks are transitioning to e-filing for the processing of deeds and mortgages, resulting in faster turn-around time for documents. The remaining NJ counties are expected to similarly adopt e-filing within the next five years. Continue Reading
Federal Courts in New Jersey Ease Toward E-Filing
Beginning in 2003, the Federal District Court in New Jersey will switch from using snail-mail in favor of faxing documents to “consenting parties” as they transition to the implementation of an e-filing system, according to this law.com article. Continue Reading
Knowledge Management and Blogs
Sebastien Paquet, Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science and Operations Research department at Université de Montréal, has published a useful, well documented guide on what he calls “personal knowledge publishing,” commonly known as weblogs. Part one of the guide is here, and part two is here. Mr. Paquet reviews the history of weblogs, weblog applications,… Continue Reading
E-Mail Controvery and City Council
The Washington Post reported on a municipal issue that could prove to have far reaching consequences for the government’s use of e-mail to conduct meetings. Fredericksburg Circuit Court Judge John Whittier Scott Jr. decided that a group of City Council members who used email to communicate about, and reach decisions, concerning critical issues that included… Continue Reading
Comments on Rulemaking on Exemptions on Anticirumvention
The Library of Congress Copyright Office has a new site for public comments submitted in response to the proposed rulemaking “on exemptions from prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works.” The comments were submitted between November 19 and December 18, 2002, and include the individual’s name, organization (if provided), a… Continue Reading
Creative Commons Launches Online Copyright Licenses
Creative Commons, the non-profit organization whose focus is providing workable alternatives to current copyright laws for the digital world, has created a new public domain copyright license for web content. See their press release here, and read about how the licensing process works from the perspective of an early adopter, pioneering attorney/blogger Denise Howell. Continue Reading
Newspapers Tops in Online News
According to this Editor & Publisher article, newspapers are doing a good job of communicating with readers via the web, as they comprise ten of the top twenty highest rated online news sites. Continue Reading
