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Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy
November 14, 2004How could the exit polls in this year’s presidential election have diverged so drastically from the results that election officials and the media announced? Professor Steven Freeman, a statistician at the University of Pennsylvania, offers a disturbing answer. Looking at the exit polls and announced results in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, he concludes that the [...]
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Sweeping Scope of FCC Broadcast Flag Rule
November 14, 2004Susan Crawford blog :: Does the White House know? Susan Crawford, Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, has an excellent overview of how the Federal Communications Commission is attempting to arrogate to itself more power and the potential effects of this power over a broad range of consumer electronics. The broadcast flag rule, [...]
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Reuters offers RSS news feeds
November 12, 2004Latest News and Financial Information | Reuters.com Reuters news and television is now available through the Reuters RSS service. News feeds include: Top News, Business News, US News, International, Politics, Entertainment, Technology, Science, Sports, Health news, ‘Oddly Enough,’ and Life & Leisure. Television feeds include: World News, Business, Entertainment, Life!, and ‘Oddly Enough.’
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ALA renews call for privacy protections
November 12, 2004ALA | In wake of Ashcroft departure, American Library Association renews call for return to privacy protections That’s all well and good, but the library community shouldn’t count on a change of policy from Alberto Gonzales, Bush’s new nominee for Attorney General. This is the same person who wrote the memo to the president calling [...]
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US Gov. says: “We seize servers, you can’t complain”
November 12, 2004We seize servers, you can’t complain – US gov, By John Lettice, The Register, 11th November 2004 12:22 GMT. In case you haven’t been following the rather bizarre case of the seizure by the US Government of web servers in London, [yes, London, UK], here is a bit of an update. The adjective “Kafkaesque” is [...]
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CA First Amendment Coalition
November 10, 2004CFAC: California First Amendment Coalition There’s some great information on CFAC’s website including the song, “You’ve Got a Right to Know”, an interview with Seymour Hersh at their most recent assembly, and tons of other information on first amendment rights and open government news.
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NRC pulls its online library over security concerns
November 10, 2004OMB Watch – NRC Removes All Nuclear Information from Its Public Website This just in: NRC Restores web docs. Thanks Jim! The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) pulled its entire public reading room offline (editor’s note: Oct 25th, and as of today, Nov10th, they’re still offline!) after stories broke about possibly sensitive material on the website. [...]
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NYT gives portrait of the electoral
November 7, 2004Week in Review > How Americans Voted: A Political Portrait” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/weekinreview/07conn.html?ex=1257483600&en=d7d3c29173baef8b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>The New York Times: How Americans Voted: A Political Portrait Here’s an interesting article for you data wonks out there. See the historic portrait of the electoral from 1976 – 2004. This portrait of the 2004 electorate emerges from interviews with 13,600 voters conducted by [...]
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Historians To the Editor of the New York Times
November 7, 2004To the Editor of the New York Times History News Network. The History News Network web site invites historians “If you write to the NYT and your letter isn’t published, please send it to us.” Many do, and the results are here.
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Government in XML
November 5, 2004GovTrack.us GovTrack.us is “a nexus of information about the United States Congress.” This site is a project of a single person, Joshua Tauberer, a University of Pennsylvania first-year graduate student in linguistics. The site is not fast and is sometimes not even reachable. But it is worth your time to take a look because it [...]