Diplomats take a shine to Wikipedia-like app

Army moves to contain, maybe kill, military blogs.

FEMA plays catch-up on IT infrastructure

Four U.S. States Partner with Google to Improve Public Access to Government Web Sites  

Census approaches field test with fingers crossed

The State of Homeland Security 2007: An Annual Report Card on the Department of Homeland Security

Strategic Plan, Website Released to Combat Identity Theft

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)

"This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)."

MyMoney.gov

Here's a site from the U.S. Financial Literacy and Educational Commission. It contains detailed information on a variety of money-related topics such as:
- Budgeting & Taxes
- Credit
- Financial Planning
- Home Ownership
- Paying for Education
- Privacy, Fraud &
Scams
- Retirement Planning
- Saving & Investing
- Starting a Small
Business

USDA exposes citizen data

These data breaches at various government entities have been happening so frequently that they don't even seem all that shocking anymore. But, of course, exposure of American citizens' data is serious business, especially when it's related to those citizens' receipt of federal aid.

Since I'm not a hacker, I have to wonder: how did the private information of so many people became available to the public via the open Web? What measures are in place, or are lacking, in terms of protecting this information at the federal level? The USDA owes us an explanation.

The American Presidency Project

This online archive, maintained by the University of California at Santa Barbara, contains over 72,000 documents related to the U.S. Presidency.

The searchable database includes:

•The Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington - Taft (1789-1913)

•The Public Papers of the Presidents:
Hoover to Bush (1929-1993)

•The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:
Clinton - G.W. Bush (1993-2007)

These documents include Executive Orders and Proclamations, State of the Union Addresses, Inaugural Addresses, press conferences, and much more.

Testimony Released on Electronic Voting Machines

200,000 Medicare patients get incorrect checks

Library of Congress and PBS Collect and Preserve Oral Histories of U.S. Wartime Veterans

Workgroup may propose extending HIPAA to health info exchanges