From the DOJ Office of Information and Privacy, “the following Freedom of Information Act decisions were received by the Office of Information and Privacy during the months of October through December 2004.” Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2005
Report Examines Digital Business Models and Copyright Implications
From Harvard’s Digital Media Project, a new report, Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models in the Music and Film Industries (83 pages, PDF): “To prevent unauthorized copying of their works, copyright holders have traditionally relied on practical barriers as well as their legal exclusive rights to control reproduction and distribution.… Continue Reading
Report Issued On 60 Minutes Air National Guard Story
The 234 page report (PDF), associated exhibits and appendicies, and related news references: CBS Ousts 4 For Bush Guard Story CBS Breakdown: How it Happened Mapes: Decision to Air National Guard Story Was Made by Superiors, Including Heyward Statement of Mary Mapes Continue Reading
Advocacy Groups Oppose Do-Not Call Loophole
“EPIC, joined by a coalition of consumer and privacy groups, filed comments today with the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission urging the agencies not to create a loophole for prerecorded established business relationship telemarketing. If the loophole is adopted, businesses could send prerecorded messages to their customers, even if they are on the… Continue Reading
Comparison of Three Antispyware Tools
In this comparison of MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs SpyBot, Microsoft’s beta application receives high marks for form, features and function. Continue Reading
Free Privacy Tool to Identify Website Data Leaks
Press release from McAfee, Inc.: “…Foundstone Professional Services, a division of McAfee, has released SiteDigger 2.0, a security tool designed to help companies identify information that has been made available on the Web. The Foundstone SiteDigger 2.0 tool uses indexed search information at Google to quickly pinpoint human error information vulnerabilities that appear on search… Continue Reading
Pew Survey on Future of Internet and Google’s Window to the Past
Press release: Technology experts and scholars foresee a bigger role for the internet in people’s personal and work lives in the next decade: “The Future of the Internet: A wide-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and analysts finds that most internet experts expect attacks on the network infrastructure in the coming decade as… Continue Reading
Searchable Version of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Free askSam Searchable Version (ResearchBuzz) From the press release: “The text from the several hundred page act has been imported into a searchable, hypertext-linked askSam database. The individual sections of the legislation are divided into separate documents in the database. This allows you to easily locate sections… Continue Reading
New Book on Weblogs and Libraries
Weblogs and Libraries, by Professor Laurel A. Clyde “This book discusses the topic of ‘weblogs and libraries’ from two main perspectives: weblogs as sources of information for libraries and librarians; and weblogs as tools that libraries can use to promote their services and to provide a means of communication with their clients. It begins with… Continue Reading
UK FOIA Resources
From CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK), Freedom of Information Web Resources. (via Net-Gold) Continue Reading
Updated CRS Report on Gov’t Data Mining
Data Mining: An Overview, updated December 16, 2004. Continue Reading
Delivering the News with Blogs: The Georgia State University Library Experience
Delivering the News with Blogs: The Georgia State University Library Experience (31 pages, PDF) ABSTRACT: To deliver information about library news, services and resources to the science faculty and students at Georgia State University, several librarians developed a blog, Science News. Despite the increasing popularity of blogs (or weblogs), few libraries have taken advantage of… Continue Reading
