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OCLC provides RSS feeds from OAI repositories
March 19, 2004About ERRoL [OCLC - ResearchWorks] OCLC’s is providing free value-added services to OAI repositories. The services include URL access to OAI metadata and the content described, HTML displays, OAI version transformations, and RSS feeds. OCLC does all this by invoking OAI requests to the repository and then transforming and manipulating the responses into something new, [...]
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State of the news media 2004
March 18, 2004Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2004 This site provides a comprehensive look at the state of American journalism divided into the major journalism sectors. Much original and aggregated data found here.
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P2P & the CA Attorney General
March 15, 2004Wired News: P2P in the Legal Crosshairs Isn’t that special (think Church lady!). Bill Lockyer, the CA Attorney General , is circulating a draft letter to fellow state attorneys general for this spring’s National Association of Attorneys General, of which Lockyer is president. The document characterizes P2P software as a “dangerous product” and describes the [...]
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Xerox announces categorization software
March 13, 2004From Federal Computer Week : Research scientists at Xerox Research Centre Europe say they have perfected a new method for automatically categorizing electronic messages and documents for future retrieval…..
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Google Hints, Google Dangers
March 12, 2004“The perils of Googling” By Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus The Register March 10, 2004. Lots of tips in this article about clever ways of using Google. The focus of the article is on how web severs that are badly configured or managed can expose sensitive information inadvertently and how Google makes it possible to hunt for [...]
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The new Pentagon papers
March 11, 2004This is *huge*! The new Pentagon papers A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war. [From Salon.com]
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E.R.A. for Iraq
March 9, 2004Iraq now has something the United States does not. The Equal Rights Amendment. Paul Bremer says, Iraqi Interim Constitution Guarantees Women’s Rights. People “lobbied, marched, rallied, petitioned, picketed, went on hunger strikes, and committed acts of civil disobedience” in this country for the ERA for, well, centuries. In 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband [...]
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Salon discusses the Deep Web
March 9, 2004Salon.com Technology | In search of the deep Web By Alex Wright. March 9, 2004. It’s not often you read an article in the popular press (like Salon) that mentions government information as a wealth of information that should be easier to find. This one does. Although the author mentions libraries, he does not mention [...]
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Simson Garfinkel on the Broadcast Flag
March 9, 2004Losing Control of Your TV. By Simson Garfinkel. Technology Review March 3, 2004. ‘The latest anti-piracy move will prevent you from making high-quality copies of broadcast TV programs. And the new “broadcast flag” technology enables all manner of other restrictions.’ In the future, the Motion Picture Association of America will control your television set.
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How will Freedom of Information be Affected by Critical Infrastructure Information Rules?
March 9, 2004DOJ Explains CII OMB Watcher, March 8, 2004 Vol.5, No.5. “The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo explaining the impacts of a new Critical Infrastructure Information (CII) rule on the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) throughout the federal government.” Also “briefly addresses another information policy being developed by DHS Ð Sensitive [...]