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White House Blog Redesigned
You might want to check out the changes to the White House Blog. It is now mobile-friendly and thankfully, has an RSS feed and RSS feeds for the President’s and Vice President’s schedules. How We Changed the White House Blog by Ashleigh Axios (August 13, 2015 at 12:45 PM ET).
For God’s Sake, Stop Digitizing Paper
A recent ALA publication reports on preservation activities in libraries and questions whether libraries are devoting too much of their limited resources to digitizing paper. This fits what we have long argued here at FGI that FDLP priorities should be on preserving the vast amount of born digital government information rather than on digitizing and […]
White House finally responds to Snowden petition. People’s voice brushed off
167,954 people who signed the White House petition to immediately give Edward Snowden a “full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs” have just received the following response from the White House. Not only did it take over […]
FGI Fugitive Documents webinar now available on YouTube
Jim Jacobs and I gave a webinar in January, 2015 entitled “Community-Based Digital Collection Development of Born-Digital Government Information” for the “Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian” webinar series. You can find our notes and slides at freegovinfo.info/fugitives. And now you can find our presentation on YouTube! Thanks to Lynda Kellam and the Help! […]
State Of Georgia Sues Carl Malamud For Copyright Infringement For Publishing The State’s Own Laws
I don’t know how the state of Georgia got to this convoluted way of thinking, but they’re suing Carl Malamud and public.resource.org for copyright infringement because he had the audacity to try and make states’ laws freely and publicly accessible. Go ahead and read the law suit and see for yourself how twisted their legal […]
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