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Daily Archives: August 23, 2005

GSA Issues Request for Information to Provide Data Mining Application With Expansive Scope

“The intent of this RFI is, consistent with the direction in the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004, to provide Electronic Directory Services (EDS), or the functional equivalent, to enable authorized participants to locate and access information, organizations, services and personnel in support of their respective mission requirements for terrorism information…An initial capability must at a minimum, contain terrorism information and be accessible to the Federal government with a clear path for early expansion to State, local, and tribal officials, law enforcement, the private sector, and foreign allies. The rough order of magnitude capacity of the ELECTRONIC DIRECTORY SERVICES (EDS) for the long term is thousands of organizations and, potentially, millions of individual users, and hundreds of thousand or millions of accesses each day (emphasis added).” [Link]

Wired Interviews Jon Stewart

Just thought I’d throw this into the mix tonight: Reinventing Television – We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a Special Report from Jon Stewart, by Thomas Goetz. [for those not familiar with Jon Stewart, please be advised that this interview includes sarcasm, satire, irony, and is rated L, for coarse language, in following with… Continue Reading

Study of Law Firm Libraries, KM Initiatives and Measurable Productivity

Libraries and Librarians: A link between Legal Information Services and Firm Productivity? (37 pages, Word document) by Margaret Aby Carroll, Library Sites Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Dr. Yvonne J. Chandler, Associate Professor, University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Science. [via excited utterances] “This study will seek to answer the following questions, “Can… Continue Reading

World Wide Web Consortium Supports Open Source Standards for Copyright Services

As a follow-up to my August 12, 2005 posting, Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims, these comments hand delivered to Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office, by Tim Berners-Lee and Daniel J. Weitzner of the World Wide Web Consortium, document their oppositon to “the use of a single vendor’s World Wide Web browser”… Continue Reading

State of Spyware Report

Webroot Software released their State of Spyware Report today (free but requires registration), which states in part that “…the number of websites distributing spyware has quadrupled since the beginning of 2005 to an astonishing 300,000 unique URLs.” [press release] In addition, 80% of corporate computers are infected with malicious software, which can take the form… Continue Reading