the California State Library, in partnership with the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System has been involved in a project over the past year to evaluate the current California state document depository library program and begin planning for development of a digital repository system for California state government publications and published information. As part of this project, [...]
DIY radio with PODcasting | Doc Searls’ IT Garage
That’s do-it-yourself radio by creating MP3 audio files
that folks can listen to on their iPods and other music/audio players!
Thanks to Dan Gillmor
No Joke: Daily Show Viewers Follow Presidential Race
According to a study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Daily Show viewers are “more likely to know the issue positions and backgrounds of presidential candidates than people who do not watch late-night comedy.” The data can be found in their Sept. 21, [...]
What if the IRaqi war were happening in the US?
While I haven’t made it a practice to comment on the war in Iraq, I found this short sobering blog post by Juan Cole, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, to be insightful and disturbing.
[thanks to the Votemaster at electoral.vote.com where you'll find [...]
Wired News: Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws
A programmer wrote a 5 line script that changes vote totals in the Diebold e-voting Global Election Management System (GEMS).
Diebold says not to worry. The system wasn’t designed to be used that way. And anyway, “no one would risk manipulating votes in an election because it’s against the [...]
OMB Watch – Administration Obstructs Regulation Across Agencies, Fails to Complete 70% of Rules
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 15, 2004, Noon — An analysis of four key federal agencies charged with safeguarding the public’s air, water, food, health, transportation and workplaces reveals consistent and widespread obstruction, neglect and weakening of protections. The report attributes the pattern to [...]
EFF: E-voting
The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides this page of links to information about electronic voting. Categories include: Electronic Voting Machine Quick Reference Guides, an audio of a Technical presentation at a conference, court cases (e.g., ACLU v. Connor (Texas), Stewart v. Blackwell (Ohio)),
Standards for Electronic Voting Machines, Independent Research into E-voting Security, Media Coverage, [...]
ACNM library – what’s new! : ACNM free journals information guide
The Australian College of Natural Medicine provides this lists of “Lists Of Free Full-Text Journals Online.”
Special Investigations
Rep. Henry A. Waxman has released a comprehensive examination of secrecy in the Bush Administration. The report analyzes how the Administration has implemented each of our nation’s major open government laws. It finds that there has been a consistent pattern in the Administration’s actions: laws that are designed to promote public access to information [...]
National Lawyers Guild
The National Lawyers Guild last month released a report entitled, “The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent.” (PDF) In it, they interviewed people from across the United States and documented the “ongoing reaction of law enforcement to the legal exercise of free speech in the US.” In short, they found [...]
Bad Behavior has blocked 181 access attempts in the last 7 days.