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There are alternatives. We have to take them.
Another excellent post from Barbara Fister: Rent Control. Inside Higher Education (Apr 27, 2015). Although Fister is writing about copyrighted information, much of what she says pertains to public domain government information if we continue down the road we are on of “partnering” with the private sector and promoting “digital collections” that we neither acquire […]
Focusing on the essentials at DLC
In anticipation of this week’s Depository Library Council meeting, FGI suggests a focus on the biggest challenges facing long-term preservation and access. The scope of the challenges we face is large and clear. The quantity of government information that is “born-digital” each year is literally orders of magnitude greater than the quantity of government publications […]
House Judiciary Committee Web Page Labeled “Hilariously Terrible”
This is snarky fun. Brenda Barron on the Elegant Themes website recently wrote about Bad Web Design: A Look At The Most Hilariously Terrible Websites From Around The Web. She tags a lot of really bad, even painfully bad, web sites. Although she describes the House Judiciary Committee web site as “appropriate” for the US […]
Government Health Web Sites Expose Personal Data
A new article in Communications of the ACM by Timothy Libert, a doctoral student in the Annenberg School for Communication, demonstrates that web sites – including government web sites such as CDC.gov and Healthcare.gov – pass personal health information to companies that are not subject to regulation or oversight. Libert, Tim. “Privacy Implications of Health […]
Google moves some .gov sites to page 2
Here Are the Agency Websites Google Doesn’t Think are Mobile Friendly, By Hallie Golden NextGov (April 22, 2015). Google’s newly implemented policy to adjust mobile search rankings based on a website’s mobile friendliness could leave some federal websites on a Google search engine’s dreaded second page — at least when users search from a smartphone. […]
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