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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Bipartisan Presidential Commission to Conduct Review of Walter Reed Conditions, and Hearings on Privatization of Hospital Services
From the transcript of the President’s Radio Address, released March 2, 2007: “As we work to improve conditions at Walter Reed, we’re also taking steps to find out whether similar problems have occurred at other military and veterans hospitals. So I’m announcing that my Administration is creating a bipartisan Presidential Commission to conduct a comprehensive… Continue Reading
RSS Service Tracks Price Changes on Amazon Products
“RSStalker.com provides RSS feeds to track price changes of Amazon.com products. Generate a feed for a single product or for an entire wishlist. Add it to your favorite aggregator and you will be automatically notified when the price changes. Simply unsubscribe to the feed when you are done…Amazon.com doesn’t advertise it, but they have a… Continue Reading
Will ICANN Approve Limiting Access to Domain Registery Data?
Web Site Owners May Get Tougher to Find – Proposal could aid infringers on the Net, by Lynne Marek, The National Law Journal: ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – is considering a new policy that will allow domain name holders to keep their registration information private.” EPIC Supports Privacy for WHOIS… Continue Reading
Random House and HarperCollins Launch Services for Browsing and Searching Book Pages
“Browse and search is a new way of browsing and searching pages from books in a Web browser using a “widget.” Thousands of titles are available for browsing and searching and are denoted as such with the “Browse and Search” icon. To get started right away, you can search the Random House catalog for any… Continue Reading
Commentary on Whether Newspapers Will Endure in Print
Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2007 – The Race, by Robert Kuttner: “By the usual indicators, daily newspapers are in a deepening downward spiral. The new year brought reports of more newsroom layoffs, dwindling print circulation, flat or declining… Assuming that most dailies survive the transition, my guess is that in twenty-five years they will be… Continue Reading
Hearing on Digital Future of the United States: Part 1 — World Wide Web
Testimony of Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, CSAIL Decentralized Information Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet – Hearing on the “Digital Future of the United States: Part I — The Future of the World Wide Web”, March 1, 2007: “Digital… Continue Reading
DOJ Seeking Industry Cooperation in Tracking File Uploading Activity
News.com: “The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned. That proposal surfaced Wednesday in a private meeting during which U.S. Department of Justice officials,… Continue Reading
Developing Best Practices to Combat ID Theft
E-Commerce Times: Developing Best Practices to Combat ID Theft, Part 1 Developing Best Practices to Combat ID Theft, Part 2 Securing Your Online ID: Beyond Username and Password Is That Really You? ID Theft and Authentication, Part 1 New Layers of Defense: ID Theft and Authentication, Part 2 Continue Reading
Army Casualty Program Regulation 600-8-1, February 28, 2007
Via FAS, Army Casualty Program 600-8-1, February 28, 2007 (135 pages, PDF): “This consolidated regulation prescribes policies and mandated tasks governing U.S. Army casualty operations, to include casualty reporting, casualty notification, and casualty assistance.” Related postings on casualty data from Iraq Continue Reading
FDA Publishes Guidance on Communication of Drug Safety Information
Press release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued final guidance that describes FDAs current approach to communicating drug safety information, including emerging safety information, to the public. The guidance also includes the factors that influence when such information is communicated. Important drug safety information has the potential to alter the benefit/risk analysis… Continue Reading
Preliminary Analysis of the President's Budget Request for 2008
CBO Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget Request for 2008, March 2, 2007. Budget Options, February 2007 (373 pages, PDF) Testimony on Economic Volatility – statement by CBO Director Peter R. Orszag before the Joint Economic Committee, February 28, 2007 AP: CBO says budget fails to balance by 2012 – “…Bush’s February budget plan would… Continue Reading
