Press release: “The New York Times announced today the launch of DealBook, a new online financial news report on NYTimes.com featuring up-to-the-minute news and exclusives about Wall Street and corporate America. The continually updated report edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin, the Times’s chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, with contributions from Times business reporters, is an extension of the daily e-mail newsletter of the same name that reaches more than 160,000 subscribers and includes among its readers many of the nations most influential executives and leaders. DealBook now includes three separate entities: the DealBook online report, the DealBook e-mail newsletter and the DealBook Sunday column in the newspaper. The new online report will be published weekdays at NYTimes.com/dealbook and will contain in-depth coverage that is updated throughout the market day, Monday through Friday.”
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Daily Archives: March 6, 2006
President Submits Line Item Veto Legislation to Congress
White House Fact Sheet: President Submits Line Item Veto Legislation to Congress Press Briefing on the President’s Line-Item Veto Legislation by OMB Director Josh Bolten Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006 (10 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
National Library of Australia Launches Libraries Australia Portal
“Libraries Australia, a service that enables anyone with an Internet connection to select from more than 40 million items held in over 800 libraries across the nation….[was] launched at 12.30pm Monday 27 February at Parliament House, Canberra by Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. This innovative service is an Australian… Continue Reading
EU eGovernment Economics Project
“…the eGovernment Economics Project (eGEP) aims at producing a measurement framework for the evaluation of e-government impacts and outcomes. Policy makers and practitioners need new instruments to evaluate and monitor the costs, benefits and outcomes of eGovernment. After the first generation e-Government investments at digitalising the public sector, it is now important to show measurable… Continue Reading
FCC’s Independent Panel Reviewing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Networks
“The FCC’s Independent Panel Reviewing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Networks (Hurricane Katrina Independent Panel) was established pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended. The mission of the Hurricane Katrina Independent Panel is to review the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the telecommunications and media infrastructure in the areas affected by… Continue Reading
National Journal Profiles AG Gonzales
National Journal: Defense Attorney, March 3, 2006. “To his backers, Gonzales is a quiet, hardworking attorney general notable for his open management style and his commitment to the administration of justice and to the war on terrorism. To his critics, Gonzales is a Bush yes-man who never really left the White House and who continues… Continue Reading
Success and Challenges of Online Tax Filings Examined by Policy Expert
The Case of Online Tax Filing: “This exerpt from Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance, examines online tax filings in e-government, by Darrell M. West [John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University], February 2006. “In general, citizen satisfaction levels… Continue Reading
Minnesota Governor Announces Proposals to Protect Personal Privacy
Press release: “Citing the need to safeguard the personal information of Minnesotans, Governor Pawlenty today announced a series of proposals that will protect personal privacy and improve the way state government handles personal data…In 2005, more than 3,000 Minnesotans became the victims of identity theft according to the Federal Trade Commission. Continue Reading
Patriot Act Reathorization Means No Changes for Another 4 Years
Follow-up to Patriot Act Reauthorization Passed by Senate, from the Christian Science Monitor today, How the Patriot Act came in from the cold – The addition of new civil liberties protections made the Patriot Act’s final lurch toward passage possible. Continue Reading
Small Donors to 2004 Campaigns Marked Watershed Says Report
Press release from the Institute for Small Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet (IPDI): “The 2004 election was a watershed in presidential campaign fundraising. Three or four times as many people contributed to the candidates in 2004 as in 2000, including an unprecedented number of small donors and Internet donors.” Donors Report, A Study… Continue Reading
Online Searches Conducted in January 2006 Reach Almost 5.7 Billion
Press release: according to Nielsen//NetRatings reports – “Online Search Hits All-Time High of 5.7 Billion Searches…the highest number to date.” Top three search engines remain: Google search, Yahoo search and MSN search. Continue Reading
