Information Security: Progress Made, but Challenges Remain to Protect Federal Systems and the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure, by Robert F. Dacey, director, information security issues, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Operations. GAO-03-564T, April 8. Highlights (pdf).
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Daily Archives: April 11, 2003
Search Engine Resources
Search Engine Watch launched a redesigned site, as well as a new url, athough the old one still works too. In other search engine news, see this Web Search Relevance Test report (pdf), commissioned by Inktomi, comparing its search engine to Google, Wisenut, FAST, Teoma, and AltaVista. “The goal of the test was to compare… Continue Reading
Resources on News Aggregators
Jenny, the Shifted Librarian, has linked to her April 9 PowerPoint presentation, Keeping Current Using RSS, from the 5th Annual Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Conference. She also provides a link to an informative workshop outline, Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web, by Ray Matthews, and to an RSS Feed Reader/News Aggregators Directory.… Continue Reading
Can-Spam Bill Introduced
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the CAN-SPAM bill on April 9 (S. 877), “to regulate interstate commerce by imposing limitations and penalties on the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail via the Internet.” See the Burns press release here. The two Senators also co-sponsored the CAN-SPAM Act of 2001 (S.… Continue Reading
Copyright Office Hearing on Anticircumvention Rulemaking
Today the the Copyright Office held a hearing on its Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works. The panel that testified on “compilations of lists of websites blocked by censorware (“filtering software”) applications,” included attorney Jonathan Band (who represents many organizations including the American Association of… Continue Reading
Data Mining, KM and Search Engines
Enterprise Search Engine Technology Strikes Gold offers useful, albeit brief, overviews of how some large companies are leveraging Enterprise Search Engines (ESE) and other supplemental tools as well. “Enterprise Search Engines perform much the same function as Internet search engines, but targeted to the needs of a particular group of people rather than the broad… Continue Reading
USA Today War Blog
Take a moment to look in on this Iraq War Blog by Angela Gunn, whose well-researched and thoughful commentary includes an interesting range of topics and sources of information not necessarily found on other sites. Continue Reading
