J.D. Lasica, blogger and senior editor for the Online Journalism Review, details the advantages of the increasingly popular free and fee-based news aggregator applications in News That Comes to You. These programs allow researchers who are suffering from information overload to scan headlines chosen from among thousands of news feeds that use RSS (Rich Site Summary) tags.
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Daily Archives: January 30, 2003
Controversy Over Notifications About Hacker Attacks
As noted in this post yesterday about the global escalation in cybercrime, many organizations prefer to stay silent when attacked rather than alert the public. Increasingly, these attacks result in the breach of large files of personal data, interruptions in a range of online services, and even global network disruptions that impact web access. Defining… Continue Reading
New Gov't Surveillance Database Announced by Bush
President Bush announced during his State of the Union address the implementation of a new government data-mining program called the Terrorist Threat Integration Center. From his speech, “Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, the CIA, the Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge… Continue Reading
New York City's Landmark Online Records Bill
The New York City Council has passed, and sent to Mayor Bloomberg for signature, the first bill of its kind for any city or state, requiring online publication of all city agency reports and publications within ten days of issuance. A prior press release is available here. All documents are to be sent in electronic… Continue Reading
Daily Senate Hearings on the Web
C-SPAN has a public service called CapitalHearings.org that allows you to listen live, via streaming audio, to selected Senate hearings. The site provides a schedule indicating the committee, time and location of each respective hearing. Continue Reading
California ID Theft Legislation
California has introduced and passed pioneering legislation, (examples are here and here) to protect citizens against a range of cybercrimes. Several new bills have been introduced that seek to protect consumer privacy and stymie ID theft by limiting the use and display of social security numbers by the state, academic institutions, and employers. See AB… Continue Reading
Guides to Federal Register, CFR and Legislative History Research
The Assistant Law Librarian of the Federal Reserve Board Law Library, Richard J. McKinney, has updated his two valuable guides (both in PDF) for legal researchers: Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations and Federal Legislative History Research, A Practitioner’s Guide to Compiling the Documents and Sifting for Legislative Intent… Continue Reading
