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Baltimore Sun
Cold War figure still looms over Washington
History: Alger Hiss case echoes in debate over nominee for national
archivist
By Michael Ollove
Sun Staff
Originally published June 13, 2004
Alger Hiss won't go away.
No matter that his conviction was more than half a century in the past. That the Berlin
Wall and the Soviet Union have vanished. That Hiss himself - traitor or martyr - is
nearly eight years dead. Somehow, some way, Alger Hiss manages to slip into the
public conversation.
So here he is again, this time as sideshow in the debate over the Bush administration's
nomination of Allen Weinstein as the new national archivist, the executive who
oversees preservation and access to historic government records.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/arts/bal-as.hiss13jun13,1,2861872.story
SEMISSOURIAN
Cape's history in pictures
By Mark Bliss ~ Southeast Missourian
The photographic images -- most of them black
and white -- remain as sharply in focus as when they were taken even
though most are decades old.
Babies. Politicians. Families. Fender benders. Store window displays.
Polished bank lobbies from bygone eras. Weddings. Funerals. Flooded Main
Street. Women operating a local telephone switchboard after World War II.
http://www.semissourian.com/story.html$rec=139801
3,000 blogs lose their voice
Last modified: June 16, 2004, 12:21 PM PDT
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Software developer Dave Winer disabled roughly 3,000 Web logs from
his former company this weekend, a move that drew sharp criticism
from some people in the publishing community.
Winer, a champion of blogging and the publishing format Really Simple
Syndication (RSS), said in an interview that he had to move the Web logs,
or blogs, to his personal server from UserLand, a software company he
founded in 1998 and left two years ago. But upon discovering the traffic load
and time commitment involved in hosting the free sites, he chose to turn
them off without notice.
http://msn-cnet.com.com/3%2C000+blogs+lose+their+voice/2100-1038_3-5236308.html?
The Daily Texan
Opinion | 6/17/2004
Viewpoint: Missing records, empty
explanations at A&M
Article Tools: Page 1 of 1
The Texas A&M business school needs to learn a few sound business
practices. We'll start with record keeping.
"It's not a record we are required to keep. We simply do not
track that information. We collect the data, and that's that."
Carroll Scherer,
director,
Texas A&M MBA program
The Texan reported Wednesday that the school cannot verify the data
that suddenly propelled its U.S. News and World Report rankings in two
job-placement categories from No. 62 and No. 74 to No. 1 in both.
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2004/06/17/Opinion/Viewpoint.Missing.Records.Empty.Explanations.At.Am-688144.shtml
http://snipurl.com/75vf
GCN
06/17/04
NARA looking for a few good records
managers
By Jason Miller
GCN Staff
The National Archives and Records
Administration is looking for agency records
managers to test prototypes of the Electronic
Records Archive system.
http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/26248-1.html
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Taft calls for training in public-records law
Thursday, June 17, 2004
Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Associated Press
Columbus - Gov. Bob Taft said Wednesday that he was disappointed with the
results of a survey that tested the ability of average Ohioans to view basic
public records and said more needs to be done to educate local government
officials about state open-records laws.
"I was very disappointed in the lack of compliance with our public-records law
because that's the way that we hold public officials at all levels accountable,"
Taft said.
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/108746488047450.xml
Forbes
Business
Andersen: Still Dead; Scrushy: Still Kicking
Dan Ackman, 06.17.04, 9:40 AM ET
NEW YORK - Two years after Arthur Andersen was convicted and put out of
business by a jury verdict convicting the firm of obstruction of justice in the Enron
affair, an appeals court yesterday upheld the verdict.
More From Dan Ackman
For Andersen, it may be a good thing that it's
dead already; otherwise its accountants might be
facing more charges stemming from the
WorldCom bankruptcy, another scandal-plagued
company whose frauds went undetected by its
once highly regarded audit teams.
http://www.forbes.com/business/services/2004/06/17/cx_da_0617topnews.html
Salt Lake Tribune
Police academy employee accused of
trading records for drugs
By Michael N. Westley
The Salt Lake Tribune
A Salt Lake County woman was charged in 3rd District Court Tuesday
for allegedly trading confidential state records for drugs and cash,
according to court documents.
Lisa Cutburth, 34, is facing two counts of receiving or soliciting a bribe
or bribery by a public servant, a third-degree felony, one count of
possession of an illegal substance, a second-degree felony, and
misdemeanor counts of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and the
misuse of access to criminal history records.
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jun/06172004/utah/176230.asp
Allstream Launches Digital Ink Solutions
Unique Disruptive Technology First to Market in Canada
Pen and Paper Solutions Streamlines Data Capture and Information Access
for Enterprises
TORONTO, June 17 /PRNewswire/ - Allstream, Canada's largest alternative
communication solutions provider, today announced the launch of its newest
service Digital Ink Solutions - the first offering of its kind in Canada.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK1.story&STORY=/www/story/06-17-2004/0002194964&EDATE=THU+Jun+17+2004,+07:47+AM
http://snipurl.com/75vo
The Inquirer
E-mail is dead, long live Spam
Killer app is close to death
By McFeelme Johnson: Thursday 17 June 2004, 19:32
E-MAIL WAS truly the killer app, along with the Web, that made the Internet
what it is today. A barren wasteland of adverting, conspiracy theories, and trite
urban legends passed on as fact. Anyway, e-mail truly revolutionised our society
in a very short period of time. It allowed us to communicate in ways never
imagined. Brief notes to friends, relatives, or business colleagues can be passed
around the world almost instantaneously, essentially for free.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16648
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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