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Hacking Congress
Hacking The Hill, By Shane Harris, National Journal, 12/19/2008. Also available at: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20081220_6787.php. It seems that it is "exceptionally difficult to protect congressional computers in a uniform fashion" and one panel has determined that Congress cannot manage cyber-security. Continue reading
The Commons on Flickr
The American Historical Association blog has a nice, short writeup on Flickr: The Commons, where national and state government libraries (including the Library of Congress) are displaying photographs of historical interest.
- Snapshots of the Past: The Commons on Flickr, By Jessica Pritchard, December 22, 2008.
GovTrack announces major updates
Govtack.us has announced some major new features!
- Site Updates in September, December 2008, by Josh Tauberer, December 20, 2008
Grants.Gov has a blog, RSS feed
grants.gov, "a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 grant programs and provides access to approximately $500 billion in annual awards," started a blog back in August. It is available at at the commercial, (not dot-gov) site: http://grants-gov.blogspot.com/ I found both the grants.gov site and the blog a bit confusing. It was not clear to me who the audience was. Maybe I should have spent more time evaluating it. But this site has had its problems being user friendly. See Should Grants.gov Be Abolished? and Grants.gov is Windows-only. Continue reading
CRS report on Presidential Libraries
Presidential Libraries: The Federal System and Related Legislation, by Harold C. Relyea, updated November 26, 2008, Order Code RS20825. (PDF, 6 pp). Thanks to FAS. Continue reading
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