Discovery is hampered in an investigation into cost over-runs and project mismanagement on Boston’s Big Dig project, “the largest, most complex and technologically challenging highway project in Amerian history.” Apparently project managers instituted a policy of deleting all project related e-mail messages after thirty days, as reported during a Massachusetts State House Hearing. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2003
LexisNexis and KM
LexisNexis Among Top 100 Companies Recognized for its Knowledge Management Innovations for a Second Year in a Row. Continue Reading
Washington State E-Gov Business Initiative
BEGINWA.org is a portal, still under development, that promises to provide comprehensive access to local government information (cities and counties) and e-services to assist businesses operating in the state. In future, the site will also provide online forms for payment transactions and permitting. Continue Reading
News Aggregators
Hot Off Your News Clicking Service reviews the subscription news reader NewzCrawler, and highlights the attributes of news aggregators in general. There are other reliable news aggregator applications, including free and fee-based alternatives such as the following: AmphetaDesk – http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ Newsbooster – http://www.newsbooster.com/ RadioUserLand – http://radio.userland.com/newsaggregator Syndirella – http://www.yole.ru/projects/syndirella/ Continue Reading
Review of Reference Tool GuruNet
Walt Mossberg, the author of the Wall Street Journal Personal Technology column (no fee req’d), gives a positive review to a nifty fee-based utility, GuruNet, in GuruNet as a Reference Tool Goes Beyond Search Engines. The program costs $35 and is marketed as “the ultimate reference program: encyclopedias, dictionary, thesaurus, companies, celebrities, stock prices, and… Continue Reading
Creative Commons Launches Int'l Project
Creative Commons, the unique copyright licensing project that facilitates the sharing of creative works, announced the launch of their new international program “dedicated to the drafting and eventual adoption of country-specific licenses.” Link submitted by Donna Cavallini. Continue Reading
SEC and Website Disclosure Rules
According to this law.com article, “in the wake of the adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and last year’s corporate scandals (such as Enron), more real- and quasi-real-time information about public companies will be available at the SEC’s Web site or directly through the Web sites of companies themselves than could have been imagined last spring.” Continue Reading
Congress Loves Canadian Made Blackberry
From the New York Times, another article on the continuing saga of Congress and their fixation with the BlackBerry wireless handhelds. As noted in my previous posting, loyalty to this Canadian device is under significant challenge from a patent infringement dispute with NTP Inc. Time will tell whether Congress will establish a new allegiance with… Continue Reading
Update on Supreme Court Library Net Filters Case
Below are links with details about Wednesday’s arguments by Solicitor General Theodore Olson and Paul Smith, for the American Library Association, in United States v. American Library Association, 02-361. Start here, with Shelf-Censorship, an opinion piece that includes useful links and an important perspective on the key issues of the case, and then move on… Continue Reading
Censorship and Libraries
From the USAToday, this Op-Ed, Library restrictions borrow from colonial-era abuses is worth a read. And an opposing view from another Op-Ed in the same paper: Congressman Pickering on Children’s Internet Protection Act. Continue Reading
CDT Opposes Maryland Bill Impacting ISPs
Maryland House Bill 661, Internet Child Pornography – Removal, is opposed by the advocacy group Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT). CDT staff counsel John B. Morris testified before the Judiciary Committee Maryland House of Delegates on March 4 that the bill has “…due process problems under the Fourteenth Amendment, free speech problems under the… Continue Reading
New System to Fight UK ID Fraud
British Telecom launched “a new global identity verification system, called You Are You (URU). The system will allow governments or businesses to enter a persons details and search through databases such as the Electoral Role and Post Office Address File to authenticate their identity.” Continue Reading
