Winners, Nominees, Honourable Mentions 2005 (9 pages, PDF)
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Monthly Archives: November 2005
America’s Most Literate Cities, 2005
America’s Most Literate Cities, 2005: Seattle, WA ranked as the number one city for Internet literacy, defined in terms of “Internet resources available to the population.” These resources include library Internet connections, commercial and public WiFi access, Internet book orders, and reading newspapers on the Internet. Continue Reading
Cunningham’s Use of Classified Gov Docs Will Be Scrutinized
According to Roll Call (subscription req’d): “House Democrats, led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), are calling for a bipartisan Congressional investigation into former Rep. Duke Cunningham’s (R-Calif.) handling of classified information while serving on the Appropriations and Intelligence committees.” Mr. Cunningham is still under investigation following his guilty plea for having accepted in excess… Continue Reading
Hurricanes Katrina & Rita Web Archive
“Internet Archive and many individual contributors created a comprehensive list of websites documenting the historic devastation and massive relief effort due to Hurricane Katrina. The sites were crawled between the dates of September 4 – October 17th. This collection, containing more than 25 million searchable documents, will be preserved by Internet Archive with access to… Continue Reading
SEC Votes to Propose Rule to Provide Investors with Internet Availability of Proxy Materials
Press release, November 29, 2005: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose for public comment rules that would allow companies and other persons to use the Internet to satisfy proxy material delivery requirements…The company would post its proxy materials on an Internet Web site (other than EDGAR) and would send a ‘Notice of… Continue Reading
Microsoft Offers Free PC Security Beta Application
Windows OneCare Team Blog: “WOC is devoted to helping users’ get their machines in a secure and healthy state.” Windows OneCare Live beta Continue Reading
Release of Additional Records Pertaining to Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
Following up with a link to resources referenced in my posting yesterday, Additional Gov Docs. Released From Alito’s DOJ Tenure, see today’s press release: “The National Archives at College Park will release 31 documents totaling 336 pages from Record Group 60, Records of the Department of Justice, Files of Charles Cooper and Files of the… Continue Reading
Administration Presents Strategy For Victory in Iraq
November 30, 2005: President Outlines Strategy for Victory in Iraq, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland Fact Sheet: Training Iraqi Security Forces In Focus: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq Related documents: LA Times (reg. req’d), U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press Rep. Waxman Calls for an Investigation of U.S. Military… Continue Reading
Online Research Tools White Paper
Online Research Tools White Paper Link Compilation, by Marcus P. Zillman, updated December 1, 2005. Continue Reading
Researchers Report on Flaw in Wiretapping Security
Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems, Micah Sherr, Eric Cronin, Sandy Clark and Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania, November/December 2005 issue of IEEE Security and Privacy (21 pages, PDF). Overview New York Times, Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds Continue Reading
Federal Criminal Proceedings Against Mining Companies
The Memory Hole posts database of Federal Criminal Proceedings Against Mining Companies, 1979-2005, 148 pages, PDF. Continue Reading
Trademark and Copyright Lawsuit Focuses on Google Search Rank
From The Nutritional and Dietary Supplement Law Blog: “In a complaint filed last week in federal court in California, Salu, Inc., the owner of the popular cosmeceutical site SkinStore.com has sued the owners of competitor NewSkinSpa.com for trademark and copyright infringement accusing them of copying the SkinStore.com html code and using it to create the… Continue Reading
