The September 14 launch of William M. Arkin’s blog, “Early Warning”, with its focus on “national and homeland security,” was noted by Secrecy News for establishing what promises to be a significant and useful online archive of government documents not readily available otherwise. See also Arkin’s book, Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Hurricane Katrina News Directory
“The Hurricane Katrina News Directory is a safety information initiative of SafetyIssues.com. Powered by Google News.” Related links: Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Still to be Learned, by Stephen Heath Thibeault, Media Reaction Editor, U.S. Department of State – “This report summarizes and interprets foreign editorial opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S.… Continue Reading
Pacer Surpasses Half Million User Accounts
Press release: “Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), the service that allows users to obtain case information online from federal courts, now has over 500,000 user accounts. The half-million figure was reached in early September.” Continue Reading
Commission Issues Final Report on Election Reform
Today the members of the Commission on Federal Election Reform released the Final Commission Report: Building Confidence in U.S. Elections (113 pages, PDF). Individual sections of the report may be downloaded using this table of contents. Related links: Help America Vote Act beSpacific links on e-voting Continue Reading
Controversy Continues to Percolate Over Google Print Program
From AP today, this article highlights the battlelines that have been drawn, and are hardening, between publishers and Google concerning the expansive plan to digitize significant library collections from throughout the world, thus allowing users to search content on the web. Continue Reading
Recent CRS Reports on Katrina Aftermath Address Tax, Financial Services, Medicaid and Employment Issues
Katrina’s Wake: Restoring Financial Services (6 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: The Response by the Internal Revenue Service (6 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: Insurance Losses and National Capacities for Financing Disaster Risk (23 pages, PDF) Unemployment and Employment Programs Available to Workers from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Affected by Hurricane Katrina (16 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina:… Continue Reading
Launch of the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute
“The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)…announce[s] the launch of the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII). Like other LIIs, CommonLII is a free access and non-profit facility. CommonLII already allows browsing and searching of 464 databases from 50 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories. Most of these databases are located on existing LIIs in Commonwealth… Continue Reading
Anti-Spyware Vendor Recommendations for Corporate Environments
How to Combat Spyware in Corporate Environments – “A vendor contribution from Panda Soft on Spyware…Spyware downloaded to companies can steal confidential information, reduce the performance of the IT infrastructure, due to the resources used by non work-related activity and loss of employee productivity, who have to deal with changes to system settings and unwanted… Continue Reading
Access to 35 Katrina Related Reports Provided by Open CRS Website
Joshua Ruihley of Open CRS contacted me with this link for researchers to facilitate direct access to 35 Katrina related CRS reports that the site makes available for free. The Open CRS Network updates their database regularly, so make this a hot link for your research. See also the State Department’s new website on Hurricane… Continue Reading
House Cmte. Seeks Release of CIA Report on 9/11
AP reports on a bipartisan call from the House Intelligence Committee for the public release of the classified CIA IG report on the agency’s activities related to 9/11. Continue Reading
Google Hurricane Katrina Search
This past week Google launched a search engine specific to locating resources related to hurricane Katrina, as well as a tool, albeit one with its share of limitations due to the challeges of the task, to reunited those separated by the disaster. About Google’s Hurricane Katrina Resources: “We’ve launched two new search features designed specifically… Continue Reading
NYTimes.com Launches TimesSelect
“On Monday, Sept. 19, NYTimes.com will launch a new subscription service, TimesSelect…[subscribers] will have exclusive online access to many of our most influential columnists in Op-Ed, Business, New York/Region and Sports… As part of TimesSelect, The Times is also opening up its vast archive of articles reaching back 25 years and eventually back to the… Continue Reading
