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WSJ on Wikis
July 31, 2004‘Wiki’ May Alter How Employees Work Together by Kara Swisher. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Jul 29, 2004. pg. B.1. [subscription required]. A wiki can gather, in one place, the data, knowledge, insight and customer input that’s floating around a company or other organization. And it’s a living document, since workers who [...]
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E-voting does not have to be “Direct-Recording Electronic”
July 31, 2004[Politech] More on electronic voting, security, and seeing source code This posting to the email list “Politech” describes the differences between “Direct-Recording Electronic” (DRE) voting and other electronic voting systems. It is important to differentiate between “electronic voting”, which has immense promise to make voting more accessible to many people, as well as improving the [...]
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Unreliable voting continues in FL
July 30, 2004Washington > Campaign 2004 > Lost Record ’02 Florida Vote Raises ’04 Concern” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/28/politics/campaign/28vote.final.html”>Lost Record ’02 Florida Vote Raises ’04 Concern. By Abby Goodnough, NYT July 28, 2004 (login required). Almost all the electronic records from the first widespread use of touch-screen voting in Miami-Dade County have been lost, stoking concerns that the machines are [...]
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Call him SIR Tim!
July 27, 2004Call him Sir Tim Berners-Lee | CNET News.com Berners-Lee, in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, was dubbed a Knight Commander, the second highest rank of the Order of the British Empire. For Berners-Lee, a British citizen living in the United States, the knighthood marked the latest honor he has received since creating the protocols for [...]
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House of Commons ok’s OA
July 22, 2004House of Commons – Science and Technology – Tenth Report The report, entitled “Scientific Publications: Free for all?” is a result of the UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee’s inquiry into scientific publications that has investigated pricing, access and availability issues.
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P2P for democracy
July 20, 2004Wired News: Downloading for Democracy What a great idea. We can all be proactive about collecting government information. Outragedmoderates.org, launched two weeks ago, has aggregated more than 600 government and court documents to make them available for download through the Kazaa, LimeWire and Soulseek P2P networks in the interest of making government more transparent and [...]
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Ashcroft on USAPA “successes”
July 19, 2004American Civil Liberties Union : Ashcroft’s Patriot Act Report to Congress Omits Key Information, ACLU Says …The ACLU said the Justice Department also continues to inflate its claims of Patriot Act success. Numerous investigative reports have revealed that while the DOJ prosecuted about 180 cases defined as international terrorism, close to half received jail sentences [...]
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FCC open meeting in Monterey
July 19, 2004Corporate Media and Local Interests / Downsizing the monster The issue is whether a few large conglomerates will be ceded content control over our music, entertainment and information; gatekeeper control over the civic and political dialogue of our country; and veto power over the majority of what we and our families watch, hear and read. [...]
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Privacy
July 12, 2004Consumer buying habits honed to a science By Cheryl Hall Indianapolis Star July 11, 2004. [The Dallas Morning News] More and more data are being collected for marketing purposes as it becomes increasingly possible to do so. This is relevant to libraries as more information is available on the Web, as libraries make more information [...]
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SPARC Open Access Brochure
July 10, 2004Open Access Association of College and Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, SPARC, SPARC Europe. [PDF. 6pp] The Open Access brochure presents a more specific approach to change, by describing the benefits of open access to authors, readers, teachers, scholars, and scientists. Facts and figures demonstrate how open access to scholarly research capitalizes on Internet [...]