This article from yesterday’s Washington Post (reg. req’d, articles archived 14 days after publication) reviews the pioneering proposal under consideration by the Montgomery County Council to regulate service standards for cable service providers. See also this Council press release dated July 7: “Montgomery County is about to be the first local jurisdiction to put in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2004
California District Court Rules in Favor of E-Voting Paper Trail
The press release and the decision (20 pages, PDF). Continue Reading
Bloggers Who Will Be At Democratic Convention
CyberJournalist.net has a list, which will be updated, of bloggers who have been credentialed for the Democratic Convention. Continue Reading
Guide to Online Fraud Schemes for Job Seekers
From the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse – Avoiding Online Job Scams: Critical Tips for Job Seekers Continue Reading
Survey Finds Steep Decline in Literary Reading
From the New York Times today: Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (60 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
House Complies In Response to White House Threat to Veto Restrictions to Patriot Act
Statements of Administration Policy (July 7, 2004) H.R. 4754, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2005 [Link, 3 pages, PDF] “If legislation were presented to the President that includes any provision that forces the courts to allow notice to criminal suspects before a search warrant is executed,… Continue Reading
Microsoft Weighs In On Corporate Blogging
The Four-Letter Word That Can Get People Excited About Your Products: “What do George Bush and John Kerry, IBM, and thousands of small businesses have in common? They all use a Web logor “blog” for shortto reach potential customers and get them interested in their products. But not all do so with equal success.” Continue Reading
HHS OIG Report on Medicare Prescription Cost Controversy
Statement of Dara Corrigan Acting Principal Deputy Inspector General Department of Health and Human Services on Thomas Scully and Richard Foster Investigation (PDF) “Based on our investigation, we conclude that: CMS did not provide premium estimates that had been requested by Members of Congress. Additionally, CMS did not provide Congressional staff with some overall estimates… Continue Reading
Hearing on Verifiable E-Voting
Today the House Administration Committee held a hearing on Electronic Voting System Security. See this article on the hearing , which includes a statement fromTadayoshi Kohno of the UC San Diego Cryptography and Security Laboratory – “It is possible to have secure-enough paperless machines…But we dont have those machines today, and we cant have them… Continue Reading
Review of Blogs and RSS in WSJ
From the WSJ Personal Technology site, Blogs Can Help You Cope With Data Overload, If You Manage Them, addresses how newsreaders can help blog aficionados stay current with all the latest postings from a burgeoning community of content. Of note, Bloglines will be adding “unobtrusive Google-style ads to bring in revenue.” The author also mentions… Continue Reading
Check-Out the Blog for the AALL Conference 2004 in Boston
The AALL Blog: Boston 2004 (includes RSS feed) provides program and meeting updates, info on receptions, roundtables, and links to local area resources, both practical (such as a page on Internet access in the area) and pleasurable (recommended dining, book stores, sight seeing). Continue Reading
Happy Belated 38th Birthday to the Freedom of Information Act
According to this National Security Archive press release, more than 2.4 million FOIA requests have been filed since the law was signed on July 4, 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson, “at a yearly cost of just over $1 per citizen.” The Archive commemorates the importance of this law by publishing “an itemized list of 38… Continue Reading
