Only one govt web site reportedly affected by Amazon Cloud outage
Nextgov reports that one Energy Department website, which is devoted to sharing clean energy practices with industry, was affected by the recent Amazon Cloud Failure. Continue reading
America.gov closed
State Department shifts digital resources to social media, By Alicia M. Cohn, The Hill (04/24/11).
With little fanfare, the State Department has abandoned America.gov -- an ambitious digital project launched three years ago to promote Democracy abroad -- and shifted its resources to social media projects.The site, which provided original content translated into at least three languages besides English, "was meant to be a resource for cultural and policy information serving America’s interests abroad." An announcement at http://America.gov says, "This site is being archived..." but provides no further information on what that means and if content that was on the site will be preserved or made available to the public. Hat tip to Benton's Communications-Related Headlines! Continue reading
Preservation of Google Videos driven by users
From Slashdot:
don9030582 writes "After Google announced it would permanently shutter its Google Videos collection, dozens of volunteers from around the world sprung into action in a massive effort to make a copy of the entire site. It was originally slated to go dark on April 29th, but now they have eliminated any such deadline and furthermore they will be migrating the collection to YouTube. We wish Google would have planned to do that from the beginning, but ultimately this is a victory for the preservation of user-generated content on the Internet."Continue reading
Free Daily and Weekly Opinion Summaries for all Federal Courts and selected State Supreme Courts
Justia Opinion Summaries, Justia is providing FREE Daily & Weekly Opinion Summaries for all Federal Courts, and selected State Supreme Courts. U.S. Federal Courts, U.S. State Courts, Opinion Summaries by Practice Area. Justia offers free case opinion summary newsletters for many US Appellate Courts. To sign up for the Case Summary Newsletters you first need to login to or create a Justia Account. Then you will be able to select the free newsletters you wish to subscribe to. Subscribe to summaries of US appellate court opinions at Daily.Justia.com. Practice area emails with summaries from all reviewed courts are sent weekly. Hat tip to Sabrina I. Pacifici! Continue reading
Census Blog
Random Samplings: The official blog of the U.S. Census Bureau. Thanks to the Scout Report for pointing out this useful blog!
The U.S. Census Bureau provides a wealth of data about the population and economy of the United States, and certain aspects of their work are covered in this eminently engaging blog, "Random Samplings". The intent of this blog is "to describe the objective of their work and explain census and survey results". The blog began in September 2010, and visitors can search the archive of previous posts by category or date of publication. Some of the categories include "business ownership", "income", and "poverty". -- U.S. Census Bureau: Random Samplings, Scout Report (2011-04-22)Continue reading