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Happy Birthday Web!
On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee published Information Management: A Proposal and, soon, the first web server was running on a NeXT workstation. So, Happy Birthday to the Web! I’m guessing some FGI readers were not librarians (or born) 25 years ago, so return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear and see […]
Zach Galifianakis interviews President Obama Between two ferns
President Barack Obama sits down with Zach Galifianakis for his most memorable interview yet.
FOIA highlighted in Maddow’s Best New Thing in the World!
I’m an admitted [[FOIA]] geek. So it was really cool to see Rachel Maddow highlight the positive changes coming to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The House passed UNANIMOUSLY(!) 410 – 0 H.R.1211 FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014 co-sponsored by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) […]
GISIG: NARA launches Open Data Portal
via LIS-GISIG blog (gov-info.tumblr.com) They’re looking for suggestions; there are many ways to participate! via Doug Ward in National Archives (NARA) Information Services and Meredith Stewart in the NARA Office of Innovation. The Open Data Policy seeks to expand the number of government data assets that are open and available to the public. Those data […]
National Atlas: Another Victim of Austerity
March 5, 2014 / 1 Comment on National Atlas: Another Victim of Austerity
Crossposted from the Writer’s Guide to Government Information blog. The National Atlas from the US Geological Survey has so much of possible interest to fiction writers that it actually has FOUR entries in the Writer’s Guide to Government Information: National Atlas National Atlas Biology National Atlas Climate National Atlas Geology All this is going away on September […]
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