From research guru Marcus P. Zillman, news that his terrific Finding People Info blog has been completely updated, as he has published a new, free white paper, Knowledge Discovery Resources 2005. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2005
Announcing BlogWiki2005 Workshop
Announcing BlogWiki2005 Workshop, May 19-20, 2005, Coral Gables FL Presented by: Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library; Sabrina I. Pacifici, Founder, Editor, Publisher and Web Manager of LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com; and Marcus P. Zillman, Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library and VPL Blogosphere. Where: University of Miami,… Continue Reading
Searchable Database of OCLC Research Publications
OCLC Research Publications: “This repository contains metadata for works by and about OCLC Research and, whenever possible, links to full text. The repository is under construction; it contains current publications back to 1997, all “born digital” publications, and at least 75% of OCLC Research’s corpus of work. A complete bibliography is available at http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2000-2009.htm. In… Continue Reading
FOIA Action to Compel Release of Air Force Documents
Press release today: “The National Security Archive today filed (108 pages, PDF) suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of the Air Force for a pattern and practice of mishandling scores of FOIA requests. The suit alleges that the Air Force fails to acknowledge FOIA requests, loses… Continue Reading
Wi-Fi Networks Generally Lacking Security Features
Growth of Wireless Internet Opens New Path for Thieves Continue Reading
Public Access to Gov Docs Faces Increasing Limitations
From Slate, The Age of Missing Information – The Bush administration’s campaign against openness. Formal Statement, J. William Leonard, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration, before the Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, March 2, 2005: “Classification is an important… Continue Reading
UK High Tech Crime Unit Prevents Attempted $400 Million Bank Hack Attack
Keyloggers Foiled In Attempted $423 Million Bank Heist Related reference: keystroke logger Continue Reading
AP Launches FOI Webpage
The new AP and Freedom of Information website includes links to FOI news stories from AP, an interactive guide to filing FOI requests, a list of links to FOI resources, and a Q&A with AP’s CEO, Tom Curley, who states: “As we have reported, government at all levels is restricting access to information. We in… Continue Reading
Google Launches RSS Feeds for
The Google Codewebsite (“Google’s place for Open Source software”) indicates the launch on March 17 of two RSS feeds: “the updates feed and the featured program feed, in which we pick a great app that uses some Google tool or api.” Continue Reading
FOI Requests At All Time High
AP reported today that “Americans made more than 4 million requests to the federal government under the Freedom of Information Act in 2004, a new high for requests in a single year.” Related references from EPIC: Freedom of Information Act Gallery “highlights some of the most significant documents we obtained this year.” “…EPIC FOIA Notes,… Continue Reading
Westlaw Announces Restricted Access to Personal Data
Press release today:Westlaw Ends SSN Sales to Private Companies, Greatly Limits Sale to Law Enforcement, Other Public Agencies: “After meeting with top executives last night, Sen. Charles Schumer (NY) announced today that Westlaw would be taking major steps to close large loopholes in its data search systems which previously allowed access to millions of Social… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs? by Dennis Hamilton Notes from the Technology Trenches: Advisen: A Unique Approach to Business Background Information, by Cindy Carlson The Government Domain: GovTrack.us: Under Development, by Peggy Garvin Software Rundown: Adobe Acrobat 7.0; ZoneAlarm Security Suite 5.5; Diskeeper 9 and Norton SystemWorks 2005, by Brett Burney… Continue Reading
