New York Times
July 11, 2004
In Deaths at Rail Crossings, Missing Evidence and
Silence
By WALT BOGDANICH
Jenny Nordberg contributed reporting for this article. Tom Torok contributed data analysis and
reporting. Eric Koli contributed reporting from San Francisco.
t 5:45 p.m., with the autumn sun dipping toward the horizon, Blas Lopez, a father of four young
children, drove his truck loaded with potatoes bound for market onto a railroad crossing in southcentral
Washington State. In an instant, a 4,700-ton Union Pacific train rammed Mr. Lopez's truck with
the force of an explosion, ripping apart his body.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/national/11RAILS.html
Fayetteville Observer
Whispering Pines records access lacks accord
By Julia Oliver
Staff writer
WHISPERING PINES - The Village Council came to no clear consensus Wednesday on a proposed
ordinance that would restrict access to public records.
The council is considering the ordinance because it says a few residents have plagued its staff with
complicated requests for documents.
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=region&Story=6444282
The Pilot
W.P. Ordinance on Excessive Public Records Requests Debated
By Brian Klimek: Staff Writer
The Whispering Pines Village Council discussed a proposed ordinance aimed at controlling excessive public
records requests Wednesday but took no action.
After discussions during the work session, some of which involved two residents who have sued the village
over access to public records, Mayor Giles Hopkins said the council would revisit the issue in August.
http://www.thepilot.com/news/070904wpordinance.html
Seattle Times
Gravel-pit lawsuit triggers e-mail hunt
By Keith Ervin
Seattle Times staff reporter
King County officials, responding to a
lawsuit from the owner of a Maury Island
gravel pit, hired a consulting firm to help
search for deleted e-mails on the
computers of County Executive Ron Sims
and other officials.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001974568_search08m.html
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Crash data collection stuck in pre-digital age
By JOEY LEDFORD
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/08/04
Most motorists consider a police accident report a must-have document to get the insurance company rolling after a fender-bender.
To local police and state and federal highway safety officials, crash reports, when collected in a database, provide a road map of the job they
need to do. They pinpoint problem roads and intersections, classes of drivers, like teenagers, more likely to crash and even what offenses
most often lead to mishaps.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0704/09ranger.html
Legal Week
Media, Sport and Entertainment: A
qualified privilege
The Freedom of Information Act, while a bold move for the Government,
is unlikely to provide the full transparency that media organisations had
hoped for. Lawyers must encourage their clients to go on the offensive if
they are to reap the full benefits of the act, says Keith Mathieson
http://www.legalweek.com/ViewItem.asp?id=20582
The Straits Times
Past it forward
How do you preserve history and make it ''living'' for today's
generation? Tay Suan Chiang speaks to three young professionals
IN a laboratory at the National Archives of Singapore at Canning Rise, a
container of wheat starch paste is being cooked.
It is not part of a food recipe but is used for repairing torn paper.
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,4386,260451,00.html
Shanghai Daily news
The Shanghai Archives Museum yesterday made 26,838 volumes of archived documents
available to the public, including many memos written about government meetings when
foreign powers settled in the city.
"These archives, dating back from 1849 to 1943, are very valuable for the study of the city's
modern history," said Liu Nanshan, curator of the museum.
http://english.eastday.com/epublish/gb/paper1/1326/class000100005/hwz202297.htm
Stephenville Empire Tribune
Cell phone customer records are recovered
By ANNA BOUDREAU
News Editor
The Erath County Sheriff’s Department is in the process of calling several
hundred Cellular One customers after a box containing papers with
personal information was found in a dumpster behind the business
Wednesday afternoon.
http://www.empiretribune.com/EMPIRETRIBUNE/myarticles.asp?P=1007541&S=425&PubID=16324
e-Media
Growth in archiving segment
By Cynthia Peterson
Companies are taking cognizance of the need to manage electronic mail and other data more efficiently
in the region.
According to Legato’s area consulting director Ron Demone, companies are looking at technologies like
archival solutions, and are exploring options such as tiered level storage, implementing an archival
framework or applying snapshotting technologies to deal with the data.
http://www.emedia.com.my/TECH/BizComp/NewsAnalysis/20040708101512/wartrevamp
Information Week
$50 Million Plan To Give One Community E-Health Records
Amid a national drive for electronic health records, Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Massachusetts will spend $50 million to get one community using the records.
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek
July 8, 2004
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22104465
If electronic medical records really can deliver revolutionary improvements in the quality and cost of
health care, one Massachusetts community is going to find out.
Funded with $50 million from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, a group of health-care payers
and providers in the state plans to begin early next year wiring one community with interoperable
electronic medical records. Their hope is that the pilot project will convince the health-care community
statewide that digitizing and sharing patient records will mean better medical decisions, fewer errors, and
lower costs.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22104465&tid=13692
TechNewsWorld
Electronic Signatures: The Proof Is in the
Process
By Jack M. Germain
TechNewsWorld
07/09/04 6:15 AM PT
According to Thomas Gonser, cofounder and
executive vice president of products and
business development at DocuSign, the
DocuSign Express online e-signature service works with any
business application. In essence, it solves the software
compatibility issue. "We built a system that allows anything that
prints to be digitally inserted into a document," Gonser told
TechNewsWorld. "It's patterned after the law, and it creates a
proof trail."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/35016.html
BBC
War rages over webmail's future
A virtual war is being waged in
cyberspace that will benefit
millions of internet users.
The battleground is e-mail, a
service which, for many, virtually
defines their online existence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3871371.stm