American Journalism Review: Style Wars in Cyberspace – Copy editors take to the blogosphere. “The undisputed king of copy bloggers is Bill Walsh of the Washington Post, whose cantankerous posts on language, usage and style (theslot.blogspot.com) have won him a devoted following.” Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Vigilence Needed in Response to Expanded Tech Surveillance
BusinessWeek.com Keeping an Eye on the Snoops: With government eavesdropping getting more aggressive, privacy safeguards need to be beefed up. Postings on domestic surveillance program Continue Reading
Google Seeks to Challenge Excel With New Spreadsheets Beta
AP reports Google plans to release a beta spreadsheet program on June 6, via the Google Labs site. “Google Spreadsheets allows you to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web. For those of you who already struggle to organize multiple versions of spreadsheets and other data and lists, Google Spreadsheets is a great solution…”… Continue Reading
Legal Experts Discuss Federal Marriage Amendment
Federalism, Democratic Values and the Federal Marriage Amendment: “This morning the Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Cato Institute, welcomed the perspectives of four legal experts on the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) up for vote in the Senate this week. The panelists were Dale Carpenter, law professor at the University of Minnesota; Louis… Continue Reading
The Iraqi Virtual Science Library
Department of State Fact Sheet: “The Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL), launched on May 3, 2006, is a digital portal that provides Iraqi universities and research institutes with access to an outstanding collection of millions of full text articles from over 17,000 premier scientific and engineering journals and their archives, in addition to technical content… Continue Reading
New Hampshire Enacts ID Theft Law
Press release, May 31, 2006: “Gov. Lynch today signed Senate Bill 334, which will allows victims of identity theft to ask their credit reporting agency for a “credit freeze.” Once they do, their credit reports cannot be forwarded without their consent or involvement, which will help prevent identity thieves from using people’s good credit against… Continue Reading
Commentary Highlights Digital Strategies of Web 2.0 and Educational Impact
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 3244. Continue Reading
ABA To Investigate Whether Presidential Authority Has Been Exceeded
The American Bar Association Board of Governors decided reportedly “unanimously…to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office.” Continue Reading
The 100 Best Products of the Year – PC World
The 100 Best Products of the Year Continue Reading
Growth of DNA Database Raises Privacy Concerns
Washington Post (reg. req’d) – Vast DNA Bank Pits Policing Vs. Privacy Data Stored on 3 Million Americans: “Brimming with the genetic patterns of more than 3 million Americans, the nation’s databank of DNA “fingerprints” is growing by more than 80,000 people every month, giving police an unprecedented crime-fighting tool but prompting warnings that the… Continue Reading
Characteristics of Drivers Stopped by Police, 2002
Characteristics of Drivers Stopped by Police, 2002, 6/06. Provides data on the nature and characteristics of traffic stops, as collected in the 2002 Police-Public Contact Survey, a supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey. NCJ 211471. Continue Reading
EPA Sector Strategies Performance Report
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites you to learn about the environmental performance of major U.S. manufacturing and service sectors in this 2nd edition of the Sector Strategies Performance Report…The 2006 report also introduces the use of toxicity-weighted data to supplement basic information on emission trends. The toxicity-weighted data provide insights about the greatest… Continue Reading
