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More than browser wars, a war over the future of the web itself
May 31, 2004Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite By Nigel McFarlane, InformIT, May 28, 2004 . Web browsers and the open, public web are essential tools of modern libraries. But imagine a world without either and in its place a “proprietary global infrastructure.” Could this happen? This article says that is about to happen. Slashdot [...]
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Open Voting Consortium
May 30, 2004The Open Voting Consortium Open Voting Consortium (OVC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development, maintenance, and delivery of open voting systems for use in public elections. Read more from the NYT magazine story, “A Really Open Election”
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NYT critiques its Iraq coverage
May 30, 2004International > Middle East > From the Editors: The Times and Iraq” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/26FTE_NOTE.html”>The Times and Iraq (registration required) Amazing! The New York Times, paper of record, has done the unthinkable. They’ve gone back and reviewed their entire coverage of Iraq and found some disturbing evidence: “But we have found a number of instances of coverage [...]
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Today’s Papers
May 29, 2004This site is still in beta testing, but check out TodaysPapers.com, a combination news aggregator and discussion community, pulling data feeds from sources around the world. RSS feeds are categorized, top stories wade to the top based on a combination of clickthroughs to story, number of comments, and number of trackbacks. [Thanks Research Buzz]
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GAO reports on data mining
May 29, 2004A GAO report issued yesterday entitled, Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses reveals that government agencies are conducting or planning nearly 200 data mining programs for a variety purposes, from identifying terrorists and other criminals to managing human resources. Requested last year by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI), the report also explained [...]
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UNESCO guidelines on public domain govt info.
May 28, 2004Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information by Paul F. Uhlir, UNESCO, May 2004. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has published a new set of policy guidelines intended to encourage member nations to publish government information. “One of the greatest values associated with placing governmental information [...]
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Lessig’s keynote to Open Source Biz conf.
May 28, 2004IT Conversations: Lawrence Lessig – The Creator’s Dilemma “The Creators’ Dilemma: Open Source, Open Society, Open Innovation.” This keynote presentation was recorded at the Open Source Business Conference 2004 held in San Francisco, CA. BTW, IT Conversations has some great audio archives of IT speakers like Lessig, Gillmor, O’Reilly, Norman etc…
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Moyers addresses News Guild
May 26, 2004Bill Moyers | An Eye On Power: Address delivered at the Newspaper Guild/Communication Workers of America dinner on May 19, 2004. as secrecy grows, and media conglomerates put more and more power in fewer and fewer hands, we have witnessed the rise of a new phenomenon-a quasi-official partisan press ideologically linked to an authoritarian administration [...]
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GPO hunts for fugitives
May 24, 2004GPO hunts fugitives. I’ve got an idea: convince the various agencies to add RSS feeds to their websites. Then GPO catalogers could simply open their favorite aggregator and catalog/index/capture everything that comes through. OR…they could give $$$ to a private vendor to come up with some highly technical solution that doesn’t answer the problem. As [...]
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Blogging your reps
May 24, 2004Wally Watch. Here’s a great culture-jamming idea: blog your Congressperson! Pat Berry has decided to keep a close watch on Wally Herger, the rep from California’s Second Congressional District, who is Pat’s congressman. So he’s sending Herger letters, asking him to answer for the government’s mess in Iraq — and other messes — and blogging [...]