Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act By Dan Eggen
Washington Post.
Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A17.
The American Civil Liberties Union disclosed yesterday that it filed a lawsuit three weeks ago challenging the FBI’s methods of obtaining many business records, but the group was barred from revealing even the existence of the case until now.
Wired News: State Allows E-Vote for November
SACRAMENTO, California — A panel of state election officials recommended on Wednesday to give all voters the option of voting on paper ballots instead of paperless electronic touch-screen voting machines in the November presidential election.
While officials didn’t recommend that the state decertify all touch-screen equipment, as some voting activists had hoped, they called on the California secretary of state to forbid purchases of any new types of e-voting equipment before the November election. And they want touch-screen machines already in place to be used only under the condition that voting companies and counties comply with several security procedures.
There’s some more background in the Sac Bee’s April 23, 2004 story, State’s touch-screen voting left hanging.
By Margaret Talev.
MyFiles : ScholarsWhoBlog. “This is an aggregated list of scholars who maintain blogs. It was created on April 20, 2004.” More information from
Alexander Halavais.
Library Journal - The Case of the Disappearing Article
by Tony Greiner — 4/15/2004.
Greiner became intrigued by the removal of an article by George Bush Sr. and his National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft from the Time magazine website. The article, a sidebar to an article on the public’s reaction to President Clinton ordering air strikes against Iraq, “Selling the War Badly,” was titled “Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam,” and was an excerpt from the book A World Transformed. It laid out the reasons Bush decided not to send forces on to Baghdad in the 1991 Gulf War.
TIME removed the piece, H.W. Wilson removed it but maintained a link to another site, and Gale and EBSCO kept it. FirstSearch had it under a different name.
Greiner draws several conclusions. Of the sites he found on the web that noted the article’s disappearance, none mentioned that it could be found in a libraries or that it might be in
electronic databases. “Libraries continue to do a lousy job of marketing their services” Greiner notes. Also:
The concentration of print media outlets into a few corporate hands remains cause for concern. Would this column appear here if Library Journal were owned by Time-Warner? It is vital that larger libraries continue to keep and use printed indexes and copies of the historical record.
He closes by urging “libraries to take responsibility for the preservation of electronic information.”
The Webby Awards: 2004 Nominees
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AIFIA | IA Library
Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture.
The IA Library is a selection of resources related to the field of information architecture. The collection includes articles, books, blogs, and more.
Pattern Recognition È The Perils of Strong Copyright
A chart showing how a few ALA publications compare to Creative Commons licenses