U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing: Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans: A Flooded City, a Chaotic Response, October 20, 2005. Witnesses Testimony, Panel 1, Marty Bahamonde [PDF], Regional Director, External Affairs, Region One, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “”There was a systematic failure at all levels of… Continue Reading
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Reinventing the Empire of Secrecy: An Agenda for the First DNI, by Lee S. Strickland The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project, by Jonathan Band Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements – Revised and Updated, by Marci Hoffman Criminal Justice Ethics Sources on the Internet, by Ken Strutin In the Wake of Katrina … Continue Reading
Schumer Asks For Details About Rove-Bush Conversations On Plame
Press release from New York Senator Charles Schumer: “Today, Sen. Chuck Schumer sent the attached letter to President Bush asking him to detail his conversations with his top political adviser, Karl Rove, about the White House’s leak of the identity of covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame.” Related news, from the New York Times: No Final… Continue Reading
Five Publishers Sue Google Contending Print Program Copyright Violations
Reuters via CNN International: Publishers throw book at Google Related documents and links: Complaint (FindLaw, 36 pages, PDF), McGraw-Hill Companies, et al. v. Google, Inc., October 19, 2005. beSpacific postings on Google Print Program The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project Continue Reading
Enterprise Blogging Catches On
Executive Summary from the Guidewire Group Market Cycle Survey, October 2005: Blogging in the Enterprise (8 pages, PDF) Key findings (140 individual survey respondents): “Corporations of all sizes across a wide array of industries are adopting blogging technologies and practices. 89% of respondents are either blogging or are planning to blog.” “Smaller companies have been… Continue Reading
Yahoo! White Paper on RSS
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Blogs Increasingly Become Target Of and Vehicle for Spam
From the Wall Street Journal free content today: ‘Splogs’ Roil Web, and Some Blame Google. Definition of splog from Wikipedia. Continue Reading
Supreme Court Nominee Miers’ Responses to Judiciary Questionnaire, Financial Data and Texans United for Life
From the New York Times (reg. req’d), links to the following documents in PDF: Senate Judiciary Committee’s Questionnaire (57 pages, PDF) 1989 Questionnaire From Texans United for Life (2 pages, PDF) Financial Statement/Net Worth (2 pages, PDF) Financial Disclosure Report – Nomination Filing (6 pages, PDF) From AP: Disclosure forms of Supreme Court nominee Harriet… Continue Reading
Access to Commercial Email Services Abroad Blocked By Armed Forces
As reported by Stars and Stripes today, “On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps blocked all access to commercial e-mail services, such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, America Online and Google, from overseas government computers…The block includes access to e-mail services from computers at base libraries and liberty centers that are connected to an official government… Continue Reading
Updated Citizen’s Guide on Using FOIA To Obtain Gov’t Docs.
House Report 109-226: A Citizen’s Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 To Request Government Records (85 pages, PDF), September 20. 2005. Continue Reading
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month
“Microsoft has teamed up with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to help increase Internet security through a month-long awareness-raising campaign that provides information and sponsored events for consumers, small businesses, educators, and families. This year, the National Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign begins October 1, 2005…Events for this year’s campaign include conferences and workshops… Continue Reading
CBO Paper on Cost of Current Defense Plan
“What level of budgetary resources might be needed in the long term to execute the Administration’s current plan for defense, and what effect on that level would alternative defense plans have? This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper addresses those questions.” (The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans and Alternatives: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2006… Continue Reading
