This BBC article reports on the incredible staying power of the fax machine after three decades of use.
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Daily Archives: December 15, 2003
Canadian Board Determines Music Downloads Legal But Not Uploads
A December 12 ZDNet article provides a link to the Copyright Board of Canada decision, the press release and a fact sheet. Continue Reading
Gilmore Commission Report on Homeland Security Addresses Civil Liberties
Forging America’s New Normalcy: Securing Our Homeland, Protecting Our Liberty – The Fifth Annual Report to the President and the Congress of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, December 15, 2003: From the press release: “The commission calls on the president to create an independent, bipartisan… Continue Reading
Public Access to CRS Reports Will Remain Limited
An incisive news article from the December 12 Ohio Times-Reporter presents Congressional and advocacy group perspectives on public access to CRS reports, a controversial issue about which I have posted a number of times. CRS does not maintain a public access website, but online access to selected reports is available through several non-government websites, and… Continue Reading
Californians, the Internet, and Healthcare
From the Pew Internet and American Life Project: Wired for Health: How Californians compare to the rest of the nation: A case study sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation, released December 14, 2003: Table of Contents From the Summary of Findings: “Low-income Californians are more likely than other low-income Americans to go online and to… Continue Reading
New Report and Resources on Gov’t Docs. Disappearing From Public Access
From U.S. News, an extensive investigative report on How the public’s business gets done out of the public eye: “For the past three years, the Bush administration has quietly but efficiently dropped a shroud of secrecy across many critical operations of the federal government–cloaking its own affairs from scrutiny and removing from the public domain… Continue Reading
