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Intelligent Information Gathering

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Robin Good’s Mini Guide: Become a News G-d: How to be the first one to know everything about anything – Intelligent Information Agents Come of Age.

  • This 102 page guide, in pdf, is available for purchase via Robin Good’s Sharewood Tidings website. Arranged in 14 short chapters, it evaluates a wide range of free and fee-based services and sites that can be used to effectively undertake the challenges inherent in the task of daily news and information gathering on the web.
  • The authors provide an excellent primer on “how to gather information intelligently,” and the rationale for looking beyond your current complement of online services to the growing realm of web-based options from small companies or even individual enterprises.
  • The guide covers 14 different “change trackers,” 7 examples of “internet monitoring and clipping services,” and includes a brief overview of news aggregators, a good overview of search tools and toolbars, clipping services, and an eclectic list of free, alternative news resources.
  • I recommend this guide for busy researchers who will appreciate its well organized presentation of numerous resource options into one easy to read publication.

    • Music Downloaders Undeterred by Copyright Laws

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    Music Downloading, File-sharing and Copyright: A Pew Internet Project Data Memo [Link] “The struggle to enforce copyright laws in the digital age continues to be an uphill battle for content owners. Data gathered from Pew Internet & American Life Project surveys fielded during March – May of 2003 show that a striking 67% of Internet… Continue Reading

    ISP Pac Bell Sues RIAA

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    “Pacific Bell Internet Services, a unit of SBC Communications Inc., claims subpoenas filed by the Recording Industry Association of America and Titan Media Inc. threaten the privacy rights of its subscribers, most of whom live in California.” [Link] Thanks to Ella V. Delaney, who also provided the following information: Pacific Bell Internet Services v. RIAA… Continue Reading

    New Privacy Bill: Protecting the Rights of Individuals Act

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    From the American Library Association Washington Office Newsline: “Last night, July 31, Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), introduced the “Protecting the Rights of Individuals Act.” (S. 1552) This bill contains many provisions that will help to restore some protections of civil liberties weakened by the USA PATRIOT Act. Several provisions are of… Continue Reading

    Preserving Digital Documents

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    Storing e-text for centuries describes the LOCKSS (for “lots of copies keep stuff safe”) project for permanent publishing on the Web, which is the brainchild of Stanford University librarian Vicky Reich and researcher David Rosenthal. From the LOCKSS website: “LOCKSS creates low-cost, persistent digital “caches” of authoritative versions of http-delivered content. The LOCKSS software enables… Continue Reading

    Progress Report on E-Government

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    Special Report: E-Gov under construction “A look at three prominent programs reveals how far government has come and how far it has to go.” “When the Office of Management and Budget two years ago unveiled its e-government program, “e-gov” became a buzzword, and OMB’s 25 high-profile projects requiring extensive collaboration among agencies became synonymous with… Continue Reading

    GAO Report on Privacy Act Enforcement

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    Privacy Act: OMB Leadership Needed to Improve Agency Compliance. GAO-03-304, June 30. Highlights “More than one in four federal agencies, or 29 percent of those surveyed by the GAO, did not have procedures to ensure that personal data about individual Americans that they disclosed to nonfederal groups was complete, accurate, relevant and timely, as required… Continue Reading

    White Paper on Internet Governance

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    From the US Association for Computing Machinery: CM’s Internet Governance Committee released a white paper entitled Internet Governance: A View from the Trenches, Participation Needed for Successful Advocacy in the ICANN Arena. “This paper discusses ICANN’s history, structure, and scope and focuses on the ability of ICANN to create private rules and regulations that impact… Continue Reading