From This is London, via Om Malik and Andy Baio, important news that blinkTV has an agreement with the BBC, ITV, Sky and Fox to provide subscription access to a substantial archive of past content as well as programming from future broadcasts.
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Daily Archives: January 18, 2005
New Scientist Offers Lots of News Feeds
New Scientist provides a roster of RSS feeds (in a choice of Atom, RSS, XML and RDF), on breaking news, topical areas including Info-Tech, Health, and Being Human, as well as a range of special reports such as Motoring Technology (my favorite), Electronic Threats, and Climate Change. While you are on the site, take the… Continue Reading
Texas AG Sues Major Global Spammer
From the press release: “Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the state’s first lawsuit against one of the world’s largest spam operations in an effort to crack down on the massive flow of illegal e-mail into Texas consumers’ in-boxes.” Lawsuit Against PayPerAction Et Al. (16 pages, PDF) Consumer Tips on SPAM Prevention See also related… Continue Reading
E-Reg Website to Provide Wider Range of Documents to Public By This Summer
Arriving this summer, significant improvements in the Regulations.gov website, detailed in this GovExec.com report. “For the first time, citizens will be able not only to comment on proposed regulations using the Internet – as they do now on the site – but also will have access to supporting agency documents, every public comment and rules… Continue Reading
Updated CRS Report on Access to Gov’t Info
Access to Government Information in the United States, updated January 7, 2005: “Throughout the first 150 years of the federal government, access to government information does not appear to have been a major issue among the three branches or for the citizenry. There were a few instances during this period when the President, for reasons… Continue Reading
Shortcut to Searching Phone Numbers on Google
From Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch a quick, useful tool to search phone numbers in the U.S. using Google. The author notes that his site has no affiliation with Google, and that users may search by full name, or use first initial and last name, as well as reverse lookup (by entering the phone number). Continue Reading
Free Desktop Photo Management Tool
Google press release: Google Releases Improved Photo Management Software to Organize and Share Pictures: “Google Inc. today released Picasa 2, free photo management software that makes it simpler than ever for people to organize, edit and share their digital pictures.” Continue Reading
