FBI replies to Stingray FOIA request with 5,000 blank pages
This is an unbelievable story about the FBI being complete jerks about the FOIA requests they’ve received from MuckRock in regards to fake cellphone towers called “Stingrays” which are used to “gather identity/location information” on everyone that passes by them — which btw I had no idea these things were real! MuckRock received almost 5000 […]
Survey says most Americans not yet keen on e-government services
A new survey says that less than half of American adults who use the Internet at least once a week want the federal government to dive deeper into digital service delivery. Survey: Most Americans Just Not That Into Uncle Sam’s Digital Services, By Hallie Golden, NextGov (April 28, 2015). The survey, by Forrester Research, also […]
What Are We To Keep? (FAQ)
This document is meant to accompany the article, “What are we to Keep?” by James R. Jacobs, Documents to the People (Spring 2015) p 13-19. FAQ What is a Preservation Copy? Research that was prompted by JSTOR’s desire to determine how to guarantee that all of the printed material within its journals would remain available […]
What are we to keep? thoughts on the National Collection (DttP Spring 2015 feature article)
The Spring 2015 issue of Documents to the People (DttP) just arrived at my door. The feature article in this issue is titled “Thoughts on the National Collection” and was collaboratively written by myself, James R. Jacobs, along with Shari Laster, Aimee C. Quinn, and Barbie Selby. I’m posting my segment titled “What Are We […]
LLIS.gov going away and moving to HSDL.org and FEMA.gov
Are you pointing to documents at LLIS.gov? Those links appear to be broken. LLIS.gov (which points to llis.dhs.gov) has had a generic “Site under maintenance” page since at least December 2014. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS) program’s LLIS.gov website will cease independent operations and consolidate its content […]