Appeals Court Re-Opens E-Mail Snooping Case: “Privacy advocates and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) will get their day in court, again, to appeal a three-judge panel ruling that allows e-mail providers to store and copy their customers’ e-mails.”
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Daily Archives: October 6, 2004
Global Database of Free, Independent, Online News Sites
Via CyberJournalist.net, news about the launch of Newspaperindex.com: “We only include websites with free public access that have a local editorial staff of independent journalists and in most cases a print version as well.” Continue Reading
Leading Scientific Publisher Plans to Digitize Content Dating Back 100 Yrs.
From Reuters: “German science publisher Springer Science + Business Media will start in January to put all back issues of its 1,250 scientific journals on the Internet, some of which date back to 1886, it said on Wednesday.” [Link] Continue Reading
Google Launches Feature to Read Book Excerpts and Links to Purchase
This news may remind readers of Amazon’s Search Inside the Book service, launched last October. But this time the source is Google, who announced that their Google Print service is no longer in testing mode: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since a lot of the… Continue Reading
Formation of Gov’t Commission on Health IT Standards
“The CIO of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation is among the health-industry executives named to an 11-member federal commission to help the nation develop and implement health-IT standards that will serve as the foundation for establishing a system for universal electronic health records.” [Link] Reference: House Rpt. 108-391 – Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act… Continue Reading
Report on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, which was prepared by Charles Duelfer, chief weapons inspector for the Iraqi Survey Group. This report is in three volumes, comprising 1000 pages, PDF. September 30, 2004. [Link to table of contents, from the CIA website] Key… Continue Reading
