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Daily Archives: February 25, 2005

Commentary on WSJ’s Subscriber Strategy

From Wired, a critique of the Wall Street Journals’ adherence to a fee based subscription strategy that prevents search engine indexing of their extensive, authoritative, and highly regarded content. This in turn results in very limited linking to their articles by a ever expanding community of bloggers and website publishers. The debate should and will continue about fee vs. free content, but what really resonates is the bigger picture: those who interpret web search results as an accurate cross section of facts and commentary on specific events and issues (and this number is growing exponentially) may not even be cognizant of the amazing volume of relevant information they do not have the opportunity to assess.

Sen. Schumer Pursues Database Vendors on Issue of ID Theft and Sale of Personal Data

What follows is a group of recent, relevant articles and documents associated with the escalating critical evaluation of database aggregation and sale of personal data and associated digital scams and ID theft. From the New York Times, Senator Says Data Service Has Lax Rules for Security From the Washington Post, Databases Called Lax With Personal… Continue Reading

Rhode Island Sec. of State Implements RSS Feeds Providing Real Time Data Updates

Press release, February 16, 2005: “Secretary of State Matt Brown today unveiled a groundbreaking web data-sharing initiative, which will give citizens and Rhode Island government agencies real-time, ongoing access to the databases maintained by his office. RSSonate…was developed to provide easy access to constantly updated data, which users can then use to create customized information.… Continue Reading