Request for Information for Study on Investigations of Disputed Consumer Information Reported to Consumer Reporting Agencies Related reference: Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2004
GAO Report on Redaction of Judicial Disclosure Data
Federal Judiciary: Assessing and Formally Documenting Financial Disclosure Procedures Could Help Ensure Balance between Judges’ Safety and Timely Public Access GAO-04-696NI, June 30, 2004 (Please note, the full text of this GAO report is not available in electronic form at this time.) Abstract: “During calendar years 1999 through 2002, the most recent years for which… Continue Reading
New Search Engine Worth a Look
IceRocket, a privately owned and operated Search Engine “IceRocket is pioneering commercial search by putting the interests and wants of consumers before advertisers. IceRocket uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet’s top search engines, including WiseNut, Yahoo, MSN, Teoma, Altavista, Alltheweb, Lycos, and many more. IceRocket offers a full suite of Internet search products… Continue Reading
Beginners Guide to Movable Type
Learning Movable Type – Tutorials and helpful tips for beginners to the Movable Type web publishing system. Continue Reading
ACLU Publishes Analysis of 9/11 Commission Report
Civil Liberties and the 9/ 11 Commission – An ACLU White Paper on Notable Findings and Recommendations in the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [PDF, 18 pages] “The following analysis attempts to list and analyze those parts of the 9/ 11 Commission report most relevant for the… Continue Reading
Record Number of FOIA Requests Received by Federal Gov’t in 2003
“The total number of Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act access requests received by all federal departments and agencies during Fiscal Year 2003 was 3,266,394. This is 863,456 more than the number of requests received during Fiscal Year 2002, an increase of nearly 36%, and it marks the first year in which the three-million-request level has… Continue Reading
Finalists for Sweeping Electronic Records Archives Project Announced
August 3, 2004 press release – National Archives Names Two Companies to Design an Electronic Archives “Today, Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin announced the two companies (Lockheed Martin and Harris Corporation) that will lead the way in designing a technological solution to the challenge of preserving electronic information across space and time.” Continue Reading
Spam Sent to Cell Phones Banned By FCC
FCC Takes Action To Protect Wireless Subscribers From Spam: “The Commission adopted a general prohibition on sending commercial messages to any address referencing an Internet domain associated with wireless subscriber messaging services.” Continue Reading
Senate on Its Way to Wireless Future
From Government Computer News: According to the Senate’s CIO, “Were implementing what we need to accomplish the vision of giving senators, staffs and committees the ability to do their job anytime, anywhere and under any circumstances…” Continue Reading
Do Search Engines Really Deliver News Links From Thousands of Sources?
This interesting posting from Digital Deliverance, although based on a limited analysis, raises important questions about the range and extent of sources made available to search engine users for a “top news” story on a given day. Continue Reading
Yahoo and Ask Jeeves Make Searching Local Easier
“Yahoo! Local Beta – Find businesses and services near you….combines the best of Yahoo! Yellow Pages, Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Search…” From Chris Sherman, Yahoo Targets Google, Yellow Pages with New Local Search Ask Jeeves Teams With Citysearch to Create Leading Local Search Experience Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves Bow Local Search Tools Continue Reading
Creating Search Queries to Generate RSS Feeds
Tara (Research Buzz) is just terrific. See her posting today on keyword-specific RSS feeds from headlinenews.com. This type of feature is also available from FindForward (formulate a query and choose “Get RSS” from the drop-down menu, and you will be provided with a url to enter into your aggregator), and Topix.net (after you have generated… Continue Reading
