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Daily Archives: March 23, 2005
Study Details Public Access to State Records
Press release: New University of Florida Study Ranks States’ Records Access Laws – The project’s panel of experts, known as the Sunshine Review Board, compared the state laws for 30 categories of legal provisions related to records requests and ranked them on a Sunshine Index for openness. The overall ranking is based on states’ performance… Continue Reading
New Pew Survey Shows Growing Number of Americans Download Music
Press release today: “About 36 million Americansor 27% of internet userssay they download either music or video files and about half of them have found ways outside of traditional peer-to-peer networks or paid online services to gather and swap their files, according to the most recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.”… Continue Reading
FEC Delays Announcing New Regs That May Impact Blogs
Following up on previous postings involving the FEC and potential regs impacting blogs, Declan McCullagh reports that public response to such plans have resulted in a longer, more contested process than may have otherwise been the case. Continue Reading
Web Fraud Scams Target Online Job Seekers
Searching for Jobs, Finding Scams, Beware Money Laundering Schemes on Career Web Sites, March 15, 2005. Continue Reading
Newspaper Publishers Buy Major Stake in Topix.net
AP reports that Gannett Co., Knight Ridder Inc. and the Tribune Co. have each acquired a 25 percent share in Topix.net which already has an arrangement with the New York Times to feature selected topical articles each day. The full text of the press release with details about the future impact on the site and… Continue Reading
