Judge Sentences Man to 9 Years in Prison for Using Fake Internet Addresses to Send Mass E-Mail Ads. Links to relevant legal documents available from JURIST Paper Chase.
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Daily Archives: April 8, 2005
Guide to Weblogs in Special Libraries
Weblogs: Their Use and Application In Science and Technology Libraries (12 pages, PDF), by Geoff Harder and Randy Reichardt. Continue Reading
BBC Campaign Weblog
“Welcome to the Election Monitor, the BBC News website’s campaign weblog. From now until polling day, we will be bringing you first-hand reports from around the country from our team of correspondents, as well as the best of the newspapers, choice morsels from the web, and your e-mails.” Also provides an RSS feed. Continue Reading
DoD Website Taken Offline in Controvery Over Access to Gov’t Docs.
The message on the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Joint Electronic Library website today reads as follows: “This website is under review. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.” Secrecy News reported “that the site was taken offline overnight after unclassified documents on the site became the subject of news stories and public controversy.”… Continue Reading
Significant Rise in Classification of Gov’t Docs Focus of New Reports
Data on the classification of government documents, compiled by the National Records and Archives Administration’s Information Security Oversight Office, is available in the 2004 Report to the President: “This report provides information on the status of the security classification program as required by Executive Order 12958, as amended, “Classified National Security Information. It includes statistics… Continue Reading
USA PATRIOT Act Sunsets Report
CDT has made available a PDF version, 70 pages, of the DOJ’s April 2005 report, USA PATRIOT Act Sunsets Report. “The report, which was prepared at the request of Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, analyzes each of the 16 provisions that are scheduled to expire on December 31, 2005. See also Patriot Debates – A… Continue Reading
Commentary By Lawyers on Law Firm Librarians
Large-Firm Life: An Ode to Librarians, New York Lawyer, April 8, 2005: “Librarians are, by definition, the greatest research tools that any firm has.” Continue Reading
New Foundation Sponsored Resource on Global Health
What is GlobalHealthReporting.org?: “GlobalHealthReporting.org is a project developed and operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation with major support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide journalists and others — including researchers, policymakers and nongovernmental organizations — with the latest news and information about HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria worldwide.” See also World Health Report… Continue Reading
