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Diebold apologizes for device flaws
April 22, 2004Tri-Valley Herald Online – Diebold apologizes for device flaws By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER It is an uncommon day when the nation’s second-largest provider of voting systems concedes that its flagship products in California have significant security flaws and that it supplied hundreds of poorly designed electronic-voting devices that disenfranchised voters in the March presidential [...]
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Open Information and Data the Earth 911 Way
April 20, 2004Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – Earth 911, Model of E-Governance, Not Part of Government Gillmor describes the innovative environmental web site Earth 911 where “government workers and volunteers are feeding all kinds of environment-related information into Earth 911, an environmental clearinghouse of unparalleled scope and value, serving both governments and communities.” Gillmor notes [...]
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Good Overview of Amazon’s New Seach Engine A9
April 15, 2004Amazon’s Much Discussed a9 Goes Live Gary Price, ResourceShelf, Wednesday, April 14, 2004. Best overview and links so far on Amazon’s new search engine, a9.
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Auerbach on ICANN
April 7, 2004[Politech] Karl Auerbach on ICANN, Commerce Department, and broken promises Today ICANN/US-DoC has made it plain that under their form of Internet governance, the users of the net are excluded from any role except that of paying the bills…. You and I as internet users will have about as much say in who becomes the [...]
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Google FAQ
April 7, 2004google.public.support.general FAQ. “This article includes answers to questions that appear especially frequently in the newsgroup google.public.support.general. It is not intended to replace Google’s official FAQs and information for webmasters.” (Thanks to Research Buzz!)
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Danny Weitzner on Internet Governance
April 7, 2004Governments and governance | Perspectives | CNET News.com. Danny Weitzner is technology and society domain leader at the World Wide Web Consortium and principal research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass. In this opinion piece he addresses the issues of who governs the Internet and U.N. Secretary General [...]
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Interview with Mike Godwin
April 7, 2004Slashdot | Attorney Mike Godwin Answers ‘Cyberlaw’ Questions An excellent Slashdot interview with Attorney Mike Godwin, author of Cyber Rights, Defending Free Speach in the Digital Age. “Now the senior technology counsel for Public Knowledge, Mike Godwin served for nine years as the first Staff Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation” (more…).
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Blogs at Harvard
April 5, 2004Harvard-hosted weblogs” href=”http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/directory/36/harvardWeblogs/harvardhostedWeblogs”>Harvard Weblogs: Harvard weblogs > Harvard-hosted weblogs. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School supports weblogs for anyone who has a harvard.edu email address. There are almost 500 listed at the moment and, from the names, i’m guessing that many of them are tests without much content. But this [...]
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University of Minnesota Libraries offers blog space for faculty staff and students
April 5, 2004UThink: Blogs at the University Libraries — Announcement Archives UThink is available to the faculty, staff, and students of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. All you need to login and start blogging is your U of M Internet ID and Password. You can create as many blogs as you want, and attach as many [...]