Pew Internet & American Life Project: “Web 2.0” has become a catch-all buzzword that people use to describe a wide range of online activities and applications, some of which the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been tracking for years. As researchers, we instinctively reach for our spreadsheets to see if there is evidence to inform the hype about any online trend. This article provides a short history of the phrase, along with new traffic data from Hitwise to help frame the discussion.”
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Daily Archives: October 5, 2006
DOJ Launches Project Safe Childhood Website
“The new Project Safe Childhood web site provides information to our community partners that will help protect our children from online exploitation and abuse.” Refer to Project Safe Childhood Guide (all documents are in PDF), for: chart of federal statutes; list of relevant national programs; list of relevant state and local programs; roster of Internet… Continue Reading
Google Subpoenas Competitors in Defense of Copyright Suit
Following up on articles by Jonathan Band published on LLRX.com – The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate, and The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project – news from Bloomberg: “Google Inc. will subpoena information from Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to help fight copyright lawsuits over its book-scanning project.” Continue Reading
Presidential Signing Statements Continue to Interpret Public Access to Gov't Docs.
Charlie Savage, Boston Globe: “In a 27-page report written for lawmakers [see related info below], the research service said the Bush administration is using signing statements as a means to slowly condition Congress into accepting the White House’s broad conception of presidential power, which includes a presidential right to ignore laws he believes are unconstitutional.”… Continue Reading
Google Code Search Launched
“…Google Code Search…gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code.” Continue Reading
Congress and DOJ Launch Investigations of Foley
Follow-up to previous posting, Hastert Issues Preliminary Report on Ex-Rep Foley’s Improper Email Exchanges, these related government documents and news. H.RES. 1065, Raising a question of the privileges of the House. Sponsor: Rep Pelosi, Nancy [CA-8] (introduced 9/29/2006): “Directs the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to: (1)… Continue Reading
Telephone Record Seller Settles FTC Charges
Press release: “An Internet business that advertised and sold consumers’ phone records and records of credit card accounts to third parties has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law. The settlement bars the defendants from obtaining or selling consumers’ confidential phone and credit account records unless authorized by law or… Continue Reading
Newspaper Association Survey Tracks Increase in Online Readership
Press release, October 4, 2006: “Significant growth in newspaper Web usage is continuing to redefine the traditional newspaper audience, according to results released today by the Newspaper Association of America in its fall 2006 Newspaper Audience Database (NAdbase) report. The report shows that during the first half of 2006, unique visitors to newspaper Web sites… Continue Reading
