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RSS of Supreme Court Decisions
February 29, 2004beSpacific: RSS Feeds For Summaries of Recent Supreme Court Decisions From Thomas R. Bruce, Co-Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School.
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Have a quick look at any RSS feed without loading into your RSS Reader
February 29, 2004toolbot.com : rss Toolbot has several practical tools. I use this one when I come across a new RSS feed and want to have a quick look at it before I decide if it is one I want to see every day. Sure, I could just visit the home page, but a) some feeds don’t [...]
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A directory of RSS readers and Services
February 29, 2004Rss Readers The AbbeNormal wiki hosts this page of links to RSS readers for handhelds, Macs, Windows, and multi-platform, as well as Mozilla-specific readers, web-hosted aggregators, and tools to convert to and from RSS. Since this is a wiki, you can add your own!
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Court doesn’t extend database protection
February 29, 2004CNET News.com, February 26, 2004, By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com. U.S. District Judge Naomi Buchwald said in an opinion released this week that Berkshire Information Systems did not run afoul of the controversial 1998 copyright law by allegedly downloading up to 85 percent of a proprietary advertising-tracking database from the Web site of [...]
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HP to Create Digital Archive of All Time Magazines
February 29, 2004Top News Article | Reuters.com Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:15 AM ET. Computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. will create a digital archive containing every issue of Time magazine published, which Time will then make freely available to subscribers on its Web site…. HP said the digital archive would total more than 4,000 issues from [...]
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FOIA Facts: What Ever Happened to Frequently Requested Material?
February 29, 2004LLRX.com . By Scott A. Hodes. Published February 23, 2004. If youÕve tried to surf the net and find out what frequently requested information has been posted to agency websites recently, youÕve probably been greatly disappointed. Under the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996 agencies are required to post frequently requested FOIA material [...]
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Database Protection Legislation needs immediate grassroots action!
February 28, 2004ALAWON. Volume 13, Number 9. 19 February 2004. H.R. 3261 would create what amounts to ownership rights in a wide variety of data including facts. Despite opposition from the libraries, an array of business concerns including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, telecommunications, financial services and high technology organizations, the House leadership has been committed to [...]
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Toward Equality of Access
February 28, 2004Toward Equality of Access The Role of Public Libraries in Addressing the Digital Divide. This report has been sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and developed in partnership with: AARP AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEAUMONT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA BENTON FOUNDATION INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS NATIONAL LEAGUE OF [...]
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New feed for ITRU
February 27, 2004A new feed is born! The Forum on Information Technology and Research Universities (part of the National Academies’ Policy and Global Affairs division) has just created an RSS feed. “We link to news and other items on information technology and research universities, as well as selected items on IT industry, IT and society, and higher [...]
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Information Technology Leadership in Higher Education
February 24, 2004ECAR Research Publications. The Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has published a study, Information Technology Leadership in Higher Education: The Condition of the Community (PDF, 122 pages), which is available to members of ECAR Subscribing Organizations. The document “reports the results of a quantitative survey of 1,850 IT leaders and professionals at 765 higher [...]