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The Google Art Project at the White House is pretty darn cool!
Gary’s Thursday Roundup: NLRB, Internet Archive, Ancestry.com, U.S. Census, and Much More (17 Items)
Hello From DC (I mean Shakeytown, it Was My First Quake) Everyone.
As we prepare for our next event around hear and elsewhere along the east coast I thought it might be a good time to share a mountain of news, new resources, and other goodies with all of you.
The material comes from posts Shirl Kennedy and I made to our INFOdocket.com site. This is just a small amount of what we post seven days a week. Plus, we also provide FullTextReports.com. New reports are listed in the left rail (Thanks Jim and James)
We both hope you find and item or two of interest in the following update. More very soon. (-:
2. New Web Site: Feds Launch Performance.gov, Now Publicly Accessible
3. Acquisitions: Bloomberg is Buying BNA for $990 Million
4. US Department of Labor Improves Enforcement Databases Including Visualization/Animation Tools
5.U.S. History: “Rare Footage Unearthed Online”
6. New From the Internet Archive: “Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive”
7.“Google Forfeits $500 Million Generated by Online Ads & Prescription Drug Sales by Canadian Online Pharmacies”
The full text of the statement from the USDOJ and FDA
8. Washington Post Op/Ed: “Don’t Kill America’s Databook” (U.S. Census Statistical Abstract)
9. NLRB — Acting General Counsel Releases Report on Social Media Cases
10. Back to School 2011-2012: Facts About Schools, Students and Teachers From the U.S. Census
11. 1940 U.S. Census to be Free on Ancestry.com
12. Government Information: GPO Releases API For FederalRegister.gov (Formal Announcement)
13. Teen Dating Violence: A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography
From the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress
15. A Look at a Few Resources Using U.S. Department of Agriculture Open Data
16. Cook County, IL: New online database lets anyone see who has outstanding warrants
17. Federal Agencies Take Action to Digitally Document Nearly 50 Endangered Languages
NSA wins FOIA battle over request for information on any work with Google
In a recent court decision the National Security Agency acknowledged working “with a broad range of commercial partners and research associates” but it obtained from the court the right to keep secret documents that may, or may not, show a working relationship with Google.
- NSA spooks win fight to keep secret possible ties to Google, by Mike Doyle, Suits & Sentences legal affairs blog, McClatchy Newspapers (July 13, 2011).
In a decision made public Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon denied a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the curious souls at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. EPIC sought documents relating to NSA’s possible relationship with Google following news of an alleged cyber attack by hackers in China and of a subsequent cooperation agreement between Google and NSA.
- EPIC v. NSA: Agency Can “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” Google Ties, EPIC (July 13, 2011).
A frustrated scholar warns of trusting Google
We’ve written here before about Google cancelling its newspaper digitization project. Here is a new story with some details about how Google took the most extensive searchable archive of Mexican historical newspapers in the world (The “Paper of Record” archive) and abandoned it.
- How Google Disrespected Mexican History, By Richard J. Salvucci, Miller-McCune (July 10, 2011).
So you want Google (or perhaps any commercial enterprise) to digitize your books and papers and make them available to everyone for all eternity? Profits and losses come and go, but history is forever and not necessarily responsive to market incentives. Be careful what you wish for. Google may give it to you, or, then again, maybe not.
Another Google Search Is Gone
Google Realtime Search Goes Missing, by Vanessa Fox. Search Engine Land (Jul 3, 2011).
As Deal With Twitter Expires, Google Realtime Search Goes Offline, by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land (Jul 4, 2011).
Google Doesn’t Need Twitter Anymore, So It Just Let Their Deal Expire, by Matt Rosoff, Business Insider (July 4, 2011).
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