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Qik Stream
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CDT on The PATRIOT Act and Libraries
September 30, 2003DOJ Says It Has Never Used Key PATRIOT Provision, September 23, 2003. The PATRIOT Act and librarians’ response to it are in the news a lot this week. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has been excoriating librarians; Former Attorney General Edwin Meese has weighed in as well. Tirades from conservatives have begun appearing on op-ed [...]
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State Advisory Committee On FRUS
September 30, 2003Secrecy News 09/25/03. This issue of Secrecy News from the Federation of American Scientists, has a brief article on the State Department publication Foreign Relations of the United States” (FRUS) and the “Historical Advisory Committee.” Steven Aftergood writes, “… Johnson volumes on the Congo and Japan have not yet received clearance for publication. Why not? [...]
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Open-access row leads paper to shed authors
September 27, 2003Nature Publishing Group – Citation Results by Declan Butler, Nature 425, 334 (25 September 2003); doi:10.1038/425334a A spat between the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and one of the leaders of a movement for open access to the scientific literature has resulted in the journal rejecting a paper on kidney transplants at the last [...]
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Good Information, Bad Information
September 27, 2003Information Quality, Liability, and Corrections By Stephen Adams Online, Vol. 27 No. 5 Ñ Sep/Oct 2003.
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Archive of UK Central Government websites
September 27, 2003Public Record Office | UK Central Government Web Archive “This new initiative will collect and preserve 50 government websites, including the Hutton Inquiry, 10 Downing Street and the Northern Ireland Office. Sites are being collected as weekly or 6-monthly snapshots, using a specially-modified version of the Internet Archive’s web crawler. The complete archive is being [...]
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Novelist’s wiki
September 24, 2003Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things had a post yesterday about Neil Stephenson starting a Wiki to support his new novel, Quicksilver. What a great idea for a use for this collaborative tool. For those of you going, “huh, what’s a wiki?!” see wikipedia.
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Torvalds & Cox: Say NO to software patents
September 24, 2003Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox have written an Open Letter to the European Parliament. They ask for strict limitations to software patents in their letter to the members of the European Parliament. The vote on the Directive will be on Wednesday and it is expected to be a very close one. Software patents are also [...]
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Could you patent the sun?
September 23, 2003Uncoupling Campus and Company “A CONVERSATION WITH: SHELDON KRIMSKY” Uncoupling Campus and Company, by Melody Petersen New York Times, September 23, 2003, Tuesday, Late Edition – Final, Section F; Page 2; Column 2; Science Desk. In this interview with the author of Science in the Private Interest, subjects covered include ties between companies and academic [...]
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E-Voting Audit Ready for Public
September 22, 2003Wired News: E-Voting Audit Ready for Public. This will be interesting to see in light of the serious security flaws (PDF) that researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Rice University discovered.
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How Much Does Online News Change Over Time?
September 21, 2003ongoing – Moveable Text This story by Tim Bray uses a feature of the RSS newsreading software NetNewsWire that will show you the differences in successive revisions of a story posted with RSS. Bray has a couple of examples of stories as they changed in online postings from the New York Times. The examples are [...]
