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Daily Archives: December 4, 2010

Dutch Journalist Group Launches Full-text Search Engine of WikiLeaks Cables

Follow up to WikiLeaks Releases Secret US Embassy Cables, news via Computerworld of a new search engine, CableSearch.org, lets users search the disclosed cables by word, source, security classification, classification tag and date. CableSearch was the brainstorm of Henk Van Ess, chairman of VVOJ (Vereniging van Onderzoeksjournalisten), or Association of Investigative Journalists, a Dutch-Flemish reporters’ group, and the co-founder of the European Center of Computer Assisted Reporting (ECCAR). In a Twitter message Thursday, Van Ess said the search engine was an “initiative of investigative reporters from eccar.org.”

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  • New GAO Reports: Aviation Security, Displaced Iraqis, FEMA Flood Maps, USPS

    September 11: World Trade Center Health Programs Business Process Center Proposal and Subsequent Data Collection, GAO-11-243R, December 03, 2010 Aviation Security: DHS Has Taken Steps to Enhance International Aviation Security and Facilitate Compliance with International Standards, but Challenges Remain, GAO-11-238T, December 02, 2010 Displaced Iraqis: Integrated International Strategy Needed to Reintegrate Iraq’s Internally Displaced and… Continue Reading

    Facebook's plan – posed to be the web's virtual driver's licence

    FT.com: Facebook’s grand plan for the future: “This is a somewhat different Mark Zuckerberg to the one the public knew just a year ago. In recent months he has transformed from an awkward wunderkind with a preternatural ability to anticipate where the web is going, into an amicable executive unafraid of laying out his grand… Continue Reading