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Monthly Archives: July 2004
WSJ on Sentencing Law Blog and New RSS Feeds
Today’s WSJ has another article on blogs (that’s two this month!), Law Professor’s Web Log Is Jurists’ Must-Read In addition, the Journal has launched a range of RSS feeds as follows (please note – “Headlines are available to all users, but full stories are available only to subscribers of the Online Journal.”): What’s News –… Continue Reading
New Gov’t E-Health Records Info Network
HHS Press release: Strategic Report Outlines Steps to Implement Widespread Adoption of Electronic Health Records and New Nationwide Interoperable Health Information Network. Full-text of the report, (176 pages, PDF), The Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumer-centric and Information-rich Health Care, Framework for Strategic Action, July 21, 2004 And from today’s New York Times, Government… Continue Reading
GPO Update on Availability of 9/11 Report Tomorrow
“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is offering The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States both online through GPOAccess and in the official Government print edition, beginning on Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 11:30 a.m. GPO will provide public access to the report at no… Continue Reading
Smaller Search Engines May Prove the Right Match For Your Research
From today’s San Francisco Chronicle, this article reviews some alternatives to search engine powerhouses Google and Yahoo, several of which you may have heard of and/or use now, such as clustering engine Vivisimo and Topix.net (which bills itself as “The Internet’s Largest News Site). But other suggested sites may be new to you and worth… Continue Reading
Innovative Blog Provides Gov Docs in PDF Via P2P
Using P2P applications, Download for Democracy is providing free access to a growing database archive, currently comprising “600 government memos, communications, and reports, all of which were obtained from mainstream media sources, respected legal or academic groups, or the federal government itself.” For background and commentary on this new website, created and maintained by a… Continue Reading
RSS Feeds For High Traffic Tech Sites Stress IT
The implementation of RSS by InfoWorld.com has caused a significant increase in hourly traffic to the site which has resulted in “some aggravating scaling issues,” according to the site’s CTO. [Hot Links] Continue Reading
New Report on Privacy and E-Health Records
On July 14 the Markle Foundation issued this press release and link to the accompanying report, Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare, A Preliminary Roadmap from the Nation’s Public and Private Sector Healthcare Leaders (PDF, 67 pages). Related news: HHS to Present Plan on Transforming Health Care Through Information Technology at National Conference July 21. Health… Continue Reading
New Studies Evaluate US and UK E-Gov Accessibility
Assessing the accessibility of fifty United States government Web pages: Using Bobby to check on Uncle Sam: “This study evaluates the current accessibility of U.S. Government Web pages for people with disabilities. …The home pages of fifty U.S. government agencies were reviewed for accessibility based on Section 508 guidelines. This study establishes that the U.S.… Continue Reading
EU Financial Sanctions Database
Consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions “In order to facilitate the application of financial sanctions, the European Banking Federation, the European Savings Banks Group, the European Association of Co-operative Banks and the European Association of Public Banks (“the EU Credit Sector Federations”) and the Commission recognised the need for… Continue Reading
9/11 Commission Announces Release of Final Report
A press release from the Commission today states that its final report will be released to the public on July 22, at 11:30 am. Recent related posting. Continue Reading
OSHA Launches New Site on Whistleblower Program
From today’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) press release: “The Whistleblower Program webpage…provide[s] a single source for obtaining detailed information on the laws with whistleblower protections that are administered by OSHA…The webpage includes direct links to the 14 laws with whistleblower protections administered by the agency, and lists the regulations governing the procedures for… Continue Reading
