Technology Review – Searching for Humans – Various websites are trying to make it easier to find friends and colleagues online: “Jaideep Singh, cofounder of the new people-search engine Spock, says he wants to build a profile for every person in the world. To do this, he plans to combine the power of search algorithms with online social networks.”
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Daily Archives: August 20, 2007
New CRS Reports on Iran, Iraq, Enemy Combatant Detainees, Pakistan
Iraq: Government Formation and Benchmarks, Updated August 10,2007 Iran’s Influence in Iraq, Updated August 9, 2007 Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, Updated August 6, 2007 Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America: An Overview and Selected Issues, August 2, 2007 Iraq and Al Qaeda, Updated July 27, 2007 Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges… Continue Reading
White House Fails to Comply With Subpoenas on Domestic Surveillance Program
Follow up to previous posting on the government’s domestic surveillance program, today’s Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, On The Bush Administrations Failure To Comply With Subpoenas For Warrantless Wiretapping Documents, August 20, 2007: “Today was the deadline for the Administration to comply with the Judiciary Committees subpoenas for documents related to… Continue Reading
DOD OIG Audit of Missile Defense Agency Purchases
Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General — Audit, Missile Defense Agency Purchases for and from Governmental Sources – Report No. D-2007-117 (50 pages PDF) – Project No. D2006-D000FH-0160.000, Date: August 20, 2007. Continue Reading
Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Creates Free Archive of Federal and State Cases
Public.Resource.Org, In Re: State and Federal Cases and Codes [the current source material is ultrafiche]: “The short-term goal is the creation of an unencumbered full-text repository of the Federal Reporter, the Federal Supplement, and the Federal Appendix. The medium-term goal is the creation of an unencumbered full-text repository of all state and federal cases and… Continue Reading
GAO Launches Web Site Improvements
“The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today unveiled its newly redesigned Web site, www.gao.gov. The updated site makes the agencys work easier to find, and it better explains what GAO is and what it does. New features on the homepage include a prominent dynamic display of GAOs latest products, a streamlined In the Spotlight section, and… Continue Reading
Department of State Declassification Plan, 2004
Via FAS, Department of State Declassification Plan 2004 Update and FY05-07 Projections, 13 pages, PDF. “prepared pursuant to…Executive Order 12958 [Classified National Security Information, as Amended]…The Order and Directive required executive branch agencies to institutionalize the declassification of permanent, classified records and establish an implementation date of December 31, 2006 for the introduction of automatic… Continue Reading
Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate Seeks Shoe Screener System
Shoe Screener System: “The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS/S&T) is interested in identifying potential vendors with prototype Shoe Screener systems for Government-conducted laboratory assessment. TSA is interested in establishing a Qualified Products Listing (QPL) as a method to regulate equipment used in Registered Traveler (RT) services provided by a commercial security… Continue Reading
Executive Order: Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife Conservation
Executive Order: Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife Conservation, August 17, 2007: “…Federal agencies shall, consistent with agency missions: (c) Manage wildlife and wildlife habitats on public lands in a manner that expands and enhances hunting opportunities, including through the use of hunting in wildlife management planning…(e)…foster healthy and productive populations of game species and… Continue Reading
WorldCat Registry More Global With Addition of ational libraries in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Press release: “Since its launch earlier this year, the WorldCat Registry continues to help libraries manage and share essential data that define their organizations, such as institution type, location, URLs for electronic services, circulation statistics and population served. National libraries in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa recently agreed to load their files into the… Continue Reading
UCSC's Open Archive of Congressional Proceedings
“Metavid, hosted by The University of California at Santa Cruz, is a project which seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective [re]mediation of legislative proceedings. Metavid makes use of entirely free and open source software and video codecs to make both the footage and the architecture of the site available, accessible and recontextualizable.”… Continue Reading
University of Michigan Study Tracks Growing Income Gap Among American Families
Press release: “The rich really are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, a new University of Michigan study shows. The studythe most recent available analysis of long-term wealth trends among U.S. households is based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR) since… Continue Reading
