From the Yahoo! Search Blog, details about new features launched last night on Yahoo! Local: “..city pages…built for every city, neighborhood, and zip across the US of A…highlight upcoming events, top user recommendations for restaurants and other favorite local spots — all neatly plotted on a map of your city or neighborhood…other upgrades [include] comprehensive… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2005
Archived Websites Play Increasingly Valuable Role in Litigation
Following up on my July 27, 2005 posting, Web Archives Provide Sources for Discovery, see this Article of the week from Lawyers Weekly USA: Lawyers Are Turning To Old Websites For Evidence, available free. [note: this article will be archived one week after publication date]. Continue Reading
State CIO’s Report on Workplace Wireless Privacy Issues
From NASCIO’s New Series of Research Briefs on the Privacy Implications of Emerging State Technologies The Year of Working Dangerously: The Privacy Implications of Wireless in the State Workplace Part I (15 pages, PDF), August 2005. Continue Reading
Organizations Seek Ways to Empower Employees To Fight Web Scams
This free feature today from the Wall Street Journal introduced me to a phrase that describes a new and virulent wave of web email scams, referred to as “spear phishing.” Recipients are government and corporate employees targeted by hackers, posing as institution members, seeking personal data. Efforts are described which try to train employees to… Continue Reading
BLS Reports on Job Search Activity Using the Internet
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics Computer and Internet Use At Work Summary, released August 10, 2005, this section on Methods of Internet Job Searching: “Reading on-line ads or job listings (92.6 percent of Internet jobseekers) was the most common Internet job search method between January and October 2003. Researching information on potential employers was… Continue Reading
Does RSS By Any Other Name Work the Same?
Microsoft exec defends RSS rebranding – Renaming to ‘Web feeds’ spurs debate among bloggers Another day, another story…Microsoft Rethinks RSS Name Change Continue Reading
The ACLU Freedom Files
Press release, August 16, 2005: “Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and award-winning producer/director Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films announce an unprecedented new series entitled The ACLU Freedom Files. In ten 30-minute episodes produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Jeremy Kagan, the series will explore pressing issues that are threatening the civil liberties of… Continue Reading
Roberts Papers Missing From Reagan Library After Access by Gov’t Lawyers
From the Washington Post (reg. req’d), Library Missing Roberts File Papers Lost After Lawyers’ Review, states that an undisclosed number of pages from the files of Justice Roberts’ work pertaining to affirmative action during the 1980s have gone missing after they were reviewed last month by White House and DOJ attorneys. See also: Related references… Continue Reading
Senate Judiciary Cmte. Announces Roberts’ Hearings to Begin September 6
Press release today from Sen. Patrick Leahy: “Specter, Leahy Announce SCOTUS Hearing Locations And Details… In order to give advance notice so that you can make your travel plans, the Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. for the Supreme Court will begin on Tuesday, September 6th, at 1:30 P.M.,… Continue Reading
Digital Rights Management Tools Debut With New School Year
USAToday.com reports on new copyright protection products that debut at 10 colleges this fall, in the form of CDs, DVDs and even a USB drive, that limit the creation of multiple copies of course materials. Continue Reading
IG Report on DOJ Abuses of Civil Liberties
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act as required by Section 1001(3) of Public Law 107-56, August 15, 2005, Office of the Inspector General (DOJ). Continue Reading
Yahoo vs. Google – Whose Index is Bigger?
Following up on my August 9, 2005 posting, Yahoo Claims Larger Search Engine Index Than Google, see this new survey challenging Yahoo’s claim: A Comparison of the Size of the Yahoo! and Google Indices, by Matthew Cheney, Mike Perry, and Dr. Orville Vernon Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing… Continue Reading
