Press release: “The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School is now offering free details on high-profile cases before they are argued and ruled on by the Supreme Court…the analyses of upcoming Supreme Court cases are put together by a team of Cornell Law School students…Brief summaries of key upcoming Supreme Court case… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2004
Billion Dollar Anti-Spam Judgment
AP reports that Judge Charles R. Wolle, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, awarded CIS Internet Services $1 billion in a case involving three companies accused of flooding the service with up to 10 million spam emails per day. Continue Reading
Commentary on the History of the Quest for Universal Knowledge
From the New York Times, The Pursuit of Knowledge, From Genesis to Google. Related reference, A Reading Diary, by the author of the article, Alberto Manguel. Continue Reading
Survey on Info Overload
From Lois C. Ambash, news of her current project, InfoYou, which “is an instrument for assessing and addressing information overload. Based on many people’s responses, the InfoYou questionnaire is designed to yield personalized information tool kits to help people and organizations tame information overload according to their own styles and preferences for dealing with information.”… Continue Reading
Bush Signs Legislation Establishing Director of National Intelligence
From the National Security Archive: “Today, President Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act, establishing the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and ending the 57-year reign of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) as the nation’s chief intelligence officer. Throughout those 57 years, similar reorganization proposals have emerged from inside and… Continue Reading
C-SPAN Series on the Impact of the Digital Age
From C-SPAN, a 7 part series that commenced November 15, 2004 and continues through March 2005, that “examine(s) how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified. The goal is to educate the public on the what the digital age means to their lives.” Continue Reading
Perspectives on Google’s Library Digitization Plan
A thoughtful and provocative commentary on all the hype surrounding Google’s announcement this week, by Michael Gorman, dean of Library Services, California State University, Fresno, and president-elect of the American Library Association, in today’s Los Angeles Times (reg. req’d). See also this related San Francisco Chronicle article, ‘Googleizing’ libraries won’t replace books. In addition, more… Continue Reading
New Online Video and Audio Search Tool
press release: blinkx TV makes hours of TV content fully searchable from your PC What is blinkx TV?: “blinkx TV allows you to search the web for video and audio clips. Unlike other search providers, blinkx TV not only lets you search using standard keyword and Boolean queries but you can also use conceptual search.”… Continue Reading
FTC Issues Final Rule Defining Email Spam
Press release: FTC Issues Final Rule Defining What Constitutes a “Commercial Electronic Mail Message” “The Federal Trade Commission today issued final regulations (81 pages, PDF) to facilitate the determination of whether an e-mail message has a commercial primary purpose and is subject to the provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act. The CAN-SPAM Act, which took effect… Continue Reading
Advocacy Group Seeks FCRA Compliance By Info Brokers
EPIC has requested that the FTC launch an “investigation into data broker products for compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.” EPIC argues specifically that AutoTrackXP and Customer Identification Programs from ChoicePoint “are sold to financial institutions, members of the public (private investigators, law firms, etc.) and to law enforcement agencies. These are the same… Continue Reading
Yahoo Adds Local Traffic Data to Maps
Yahoo Local Maps is now providing real-time local traffic updates, noting incidents (minor, moderate and severe), road work (along with estimated duration), as well as speed of traffic (0, 35, 55+) for major cities as well as for selected locations, to be expanded in future. Continue Reading
New Food Safety Website From Consumers Union
This website Not in My Food states its goal is to “provide consumers with timely information about food safety risks and actions that can be taken to reduce them…” More details about the mission and resources in the press release. Continue Reading
