Commerce Dept. Expands Data Access
The Commerce Department has announced a redesigned section of its website to better integrate its catalog of its more than 40,000 publicly available data sets into Commerce.gov via Data.Commerce.Gov. Commerce Announces Redesigned Website, Furthering Commitment to Expand Data Access U.S. Department of Commerce, Blog (April 20, 2015). Commerce Data Hub. The announcement says: Data.Commerce.Gov is […]
May 1 is PACER Protest Day!
May 1 Named National Day of PACER Protest, by George H. Pike Information Today NewsBreaks (April 21, 2015). Advocates for free access to legal information on the internet have proposed May 1 as the National Day of PACER Protest to encourage the federal courts to remove cost barriers to a wealth of information from the […]
Peek at Space Pix
Software Engineering Patrik Göthe has a nice little project called PeekSpace in which he curates free·to·use space photography — much of it from NASA. As he says, there are plenty of free images of space on the web, but they are scattered in “an unaccessible sea of quantity and flash-slide shows.” So, Patrick has gone […]
Official New FCC Net Neutrality Rules Published
Document of the day: Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet; Final Rule Federal Register Vol. 80 Monday, No. 70 (April 13, 2015) Part II, Federal Communications Commission, 47 CFR Parts 1, 8, and 20. [Official PDF version at FDsys.] SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) establishes rules to protect and promote […]