From the National Academies press release: “To tackle increasingly complex issues, U.S. policy-makers should ensure that both the presidential appointment process for senior science and technology posts and the process of appointing experts to federal S&T advisory committees operate more quickly and transparently, says a new report from the National Academies.” Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2004
Google Launches New Search Interface For “Scholarly” Literature
From the FAQ About Google Scholar: “Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly… Continue Reading
beSpacific Added to Librarian’s Index to the Internet
I am pleased to have been indexed by lii.org. Continue Reading
Government Agencies Slowly Adopt RSS Feeds
From Wired, RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy. See also RSS in Government Continue Reading
TSA Issues Final Rule on Secure Flight Program
This final rule (35 pages, PDF) lists the requirements for 72 aircraft operators in the United States, stipulating that all their respective passenger name records (PNRs), “containing itineraries for domestic flights operated under a full security program and for which all flights segments… were flown between June 1, 2004 and June 30, 2004,” must be… Continue Reading
Advanced Look At MSN’s New Desktop Search Tool
Exclusive: MSN Desktop Search Revealed includes screens shots of the new utility that will be released in December as part of the MSN Toolbar Suite. (via Slashdot) Continue Reading
CRS Report on Regs Requiring Air Passengers to Show Gov’t ID
Interstate Travel: Constitutional Challenges to the Identification Requirement and Other Transportation Security Regulations, Congressional Research Service, November 4, 2004 (via Secrecy News) Related postings on Gilmore v. Ashcroft: Requirement to Show ID for Ground and Air Transport Continue Reading
More Readers Choosing Online News
AP Leader Sees Internet As Future of News From the Online News Association conference keynote speech by AP President and CEO Tom Curley: the rate at which blogger post content “works out to roughly 16,000 posts an hour, or about as many stories as the AP sends out in an entire day.” Related article from… Continue Reading
Dow Jones Buys MarketWatch.com
Dow Jones to buy MarketWatch for $520M: “MarketWatch Inc., which owns the CBS.MarketWatch.com Web site, agreed to be bought by Dow Jones & Co. for $520 million on Sunday, ending a month-long bidding war for the online financial news and information provider.” Continue Reading
Expert Tips for Leveraging Google Search
By Tara Calishain, this PC Magazine article reviews a number of options, provided by individuals and services, to obtain Google search results via email. Continue Reading
Questions About Voting Machine Accuracy Continues
Major bugs found in Diebold vote systems More Key Reporting by Media on Election Problems The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy, by Steven F. Freedman PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Nove. 11, 2004 (11 pages, PDF) “Systematic fraud or mistabulation is a premature conclusion, but the election’s unexplained exit poll discrepancies make it an unavoidable hypothesis, one… Continue Reading
New Econ Blog Over At WSJ
Tyler Cowen, from Marginal Revolution and John Irons, Argmax present their views on current issues in a point, counterpoint style. An online discussion board is available (reg’s req’d), and links to current EconoBlog postings are as follows: day one: Social Security day two: Trade day three: Europe and Asia day four: Taxes day five: Bush… Continue Reading
