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Daily Archives: December 6, 2004
New Blog Co-Authored by Nobel Prize Winning Economist and Federal Circuit Judge
From the Introduction to the Becker-Posner Blog: “…We have decided to start a blog that will explore current issues of economics, law, and policy in a dialogic format. Initially we will be posting just once a week, on Mondays. In time we may post more frequently.” The first posting is on Preventive War. Continue Reading
Website Provides Analysis of Charities to Facilitate “Intelligent Giving”
“Charity Navigator…works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of America’s largest charities.” This non-profit, unaffiliated service profiles over 3,400 charities, with information available to users via a searchable database using keyword, category or region fields. The advanced search feature (available free, but requiring registration), allows users to… Continue Reading
Outside Links to Access Free Credit Reports Are Blocked
Follow-up to my posting on November 30, Free Annual Credit Reports Will Be Available in 13 States Tomorrow. At the time, I was unable to link to the designated website to obtain free reports (www.AnnualCreditReport.com) without cutting and pasting the URL into my browser. Now I know why. This statement is from the site mentioned… Continue Reading
GAO Report Reviews Gov’t Data Mining Programs, Limitations and Privacy Issues
From Data Mining: An Overview, updated May 3, 2004: Data mining has become increasingly common in both the public and private sectors. Organizations use data mining as a tool to survey customer information, reduce fraud and waste, and assist in medical research. However, the proliferation of data mining has raised some implementation and oversight issues… Continue Reading
FDA Recall Info Available Via RSS Feed
The RSS feed for Food and Drug Administration Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts is http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml. Continue Reading
Pew Internet Survey Findings on How Musicians View Internet and P2P File Sharing
“A national survey of self-described artists and an online survey of 2,755 musicians find: Artists and musicians on all points of the spectrum from superstars to starving singers have embraced the internet as a tool to improve how they make, market, and sell their creative works…Artists and musicians believe that unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing of copyrighted… Continue Reading
