Alaska State Library bibliography on Digital Preservation
The Alaska State Library has posted an annotated bibliography on digital preservation issues to their web site. Please note while the list of articles is available to anyone, you should contact your local library for the full articles and NOT the Alaska State Library. Continue reading
Congress’ hands caught in the cookie jar
Congress' hands caught in the cookie jar, By Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache, CNET News.com, January 6, 2006. While no rule prohibits the use of Web monitoring techniques by Congress many members of Congress have promised not to monitor web use. Now, CNET reports that, "Dozens of U.S. senators are quietly tracking visits to their Web sites even though they have publicly pledged not to do so." Continue reading
GPOexpress aka kinkos.gov
GPO outsources to FedEx Kinko's. BY Aliya Sternstein. Jan. 5, 2006, Federal Computer Week. I'm not sure if this has significance or not. I wonder though if FDLP libraries will be able to get POD deals with Kinko's as part of the new program?
"The Government Printing Office has entered into a business partnership with FedEx Kinko's to expedite agencies’ last-minute production needs, according to GPO officials. A new program, GPOExpress, specifies discounts on most of the stores’ services, such as digital printing, scanning, binding, online printing, and brochure and poster production. Federal employees will also have access to FedEx shipping services..."Continue reading
Federal agencies are tracking visits to U.S. government Web sites
CNET news has done some innovative investigation of government web sites and reports their findings in a new story. "To detect which agencies engage in electronic tracking, CNET News.com wrote a computer program that connected to every agency listed in the official U.S. Government Manual, and then evaluated what monitoring techniques were used." Their findings:
Dozens of federal agencies are tracking visits to U.S. government Web sites in violation of long-standing rules designed to protect online privacy, a CNET News.com investigation shows.... The expiration dates of the cookies detected ranged from 2006 to 2038, with most of them marked as valid for at least a decade or two.
Update on Mass. Open Document Format Issue
An update on the issue of the plans by the state of Massachusetts to adopt OpenDocument-based productivity suites says that they will continue with the plan despite the resignation of their chief information officer.