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Houston Chronicle
May 3, 2004, 2:05AM
Keeper of past has shaky future
Money, space running short for library's Ideson Building
By RAD SALLEE
For every dozen readers who browse the Jesse H. Jones Building --
the geometric downtown library with the big red mouse out front --
perhaps no more than one or two has ever set foot in its sedate
next-door neighbor.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2545974 (
The Citizen
Bush hampers archive access
The Bush administration’s secretive ways have made a Washington mystery of something as relatively straightforward as choosing a new national archivist.
On April 8, President Bush nominated historian Allen Weinstein to be the head of the National
Archives and did so without the customary consultation with professional societies of archivists and historians. They now suggest darkly that there might be some ideological agenda at work, especially because the archives administer the presidential libraries.
http://www.citizenonline.net/citizen/archive/article80BB85EC4AEF456CAD00548A29FD317D.asp
Portland Press Herald
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
'Offshoring' wave sweeps through specialty services
By EDWARD D. MURPHY
Ella Hudson recognizes that for
her business to survive, her
medical transcription company has
to focus on quality and customer
service, just as local retailers have
done in fighting off price-slashing
discount chains.
The Post Standard
New shredding industry is tearing up company
secrets
Central New York businesses are catching on to the world of document
destruction.
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
By Elizabeth Doran
Staff writer
Tossing those employee reviews, customer lists or bid quotes into the trash
could leave a dangerous paper trail for businesses.
The solution these days is to destroy your documents. In response, several
businesses are springing up in the Syracuse area to handle companies' papershredding
needs.
http://www.syracuse.com/business/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/business-5/108366211054393.xml
Stuff
Secret police files to be opened
05 May 2004
By PAUL MULROONEY
Thousands of secret files will be thrown open after a select committee ruled
a commission of inquiry, investigating historic rape allegations against
police, could inspect them.
Parliament's law and order select committee has recommended that temporary
provisions in the Police Complaints Authority Amendment Bill be granted allowing
the commission to inspect secret police files.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2897469a10,00.html
New York Post
Quattrone Still Faces NASD
May 4, 2004 -- Frank Quattrone faces other legal problems, as well.
The former power banker still must defend claims made by the NASD in March 2003 that
he handed out hot IPO allocations in exchange for lucrative banking business.
The NASD also charged him with failing to supervise his research analysts by creating a structure that "undermined
research analyst objectivity."
At that time, he was separately charged by the NASD with failing to cooperate in an investigation related to the
"clean up those files" e-mail at issue in his trial.
http://www.nypost.com/business/23666.htm
WTVF Nashville
NewsChannel 5 Investigates:
Sundquist Papers Provide Peek Into Friends and Favors
A federal criminal investigation is targeting insider contracts given to
friends of former Gov. Don Sundquist. Now, Sundquist's own papers
are providing a look into the world of friends and favors that may be
behind those allegation. And what we discovered is getting the
attention of investigators.
In the bowels of the state library, hundreds and hundreds of boxes left
over from the Sundquist administration provide a peek into the past.
http://www.newschannel5.com/content/investigates/4923.asp
Marin Independent Journal
Bill to open more legislative
records stalls in committee
By Associated Press
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger's attempt to open
up more legislative records to the
public got a cold reception yesterday from a state Assembly committee and might be
dead for the year.
http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~26642~2126088,00.html (
Kansas City Star
Open records bill OK'd
Kansas measure clarifies law on what is kept secret
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A bill strengthening the Kansas Open Records Act won final legislative approval Monday and
headed to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
Passed on a 21-13 Senate vote, with six abstentions, the measure clarifies and tightens existing law on what
government records can be kept confidential. It also provides for attorneys' fees to be granted in some cases
where an agency has denied access to public records in bad faith.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8582210.htm
The Star Ledger
Foundation says agencies thwart open public
records law
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
BY ROBERT SCHWANEBERG
Star-Ledger Staff
New Jersey's 22-month-old Open Public Records Act is being stifled by state
agencies that charge exorbitant fees for requests, black out information without
explanation and don't aggressively go after violators, a coalition that lobbied for
passage of the law charged yesterday.
Administration officials disputed those contentions, adding that to the extent
problems do exist, they already are being remedied.
http://www.nj.com/statehouse/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-1/108367998840030.xml
The Times
Groups rip N.J. on public records
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
By KRYSTAL KNAPP
Staff Writer
Advocates for open government yesterday questioned the effectiveness of the
state's Open Public Records Act, asserting that conflicts of interest,
unreasonable charges, inadequate funding and a lack of responsiveness from
officials have impeded the public's right to know.
At a news conference on the steps of the State House, the New Jersey
Foundation for Open Government (NJFOG), a coalition of open government
advocates, protested how the Open Public Records Act (OPRA) has been
enforced since it was enacted two years ago.
http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1083663350129110.xml
The Express Times
Public records still hard to get, group charges
Evasive state officials, exorbitant costs cited as obstacles to those
seeking data.
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
By TERRENCE DOPP
The Express-Times
TRENTON -- State officials are often evasive and make public documents
prohibitively expensive, a government watchdog group said Monday.
The group, the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government, attacked the
state's implementation of open records statutes pointing to a member who was
forced recently to pay $1,877 to view documents on how the state's
Government Records Council operates.
http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1083663322118290.xml
The Miami Herald
Posted on Tue, May. 04, 2004
TECH LAW
Be wary of data retained
BY MARK GROSSMAN
Special to The Herald
Much of what you do every day is recorded some place on some computer somewhere. Your telephone calls,
your e-mails, your ATM withdrawals, what toll booth you passed through and so on are all logged
somewhere. Where there's a record, there is always a risk that somebody will use the information against you.
If that makes you feel a bit paranoid, your fears may not be irrational.
One of the things that make computers an incredible tool is that they have this almost inconceivable ability to
store massive amounts of information. In many contexts, people often don't know that a computer is keeping
a record of their activity. For example, did you know that your car might have the rough equivalent of an
airplane's black box in it? If you're in an accident, your black box may have a record of your speed and other
information about how you were driving right before the accident.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/technology/8583373.htm?
Stuff
Dyson admits leaking 1300
names by email
05 May 2004
By LEANNE BELL
admitted accidentally releasing the names of more than 1300 children in
the department's care.
National's social welfare spokeswoman Katherine Rich said it was a "gross breach of
privacy" and is calling for Ms Dyson to be sacked for inadvertently releasing the
names, ages and locations of 1354 children in the care of CYF, and their caregivers'
names, as part of a written response to her question.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2897463a11,00.html
Washington Business Journal
Iron Mountain buys
Arcemus assets
A Boston records management company has bought the assets of
Dulles-based Arcemus in an effort to expand its intellectual property
protection business.
Iron Mountain bought the assets of Arcemus, a domain name records
management firm. The 2-year-old Virginia company helps other companies
manage global domain name portfolios.
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2004/05/03/daily7.html (
The Register
Ireland to scrap e-voting plan
By Lucy Sherriff
Published Friday 30th April 2004 15:40Â GMT
The Irish government is likely to call a stop to plans to introduce
electronic voting because they can't prove the system is reliable.
Prime minister Bertie Ahearn asked for an independent investigation
after opponents raised doubts over the reliability and accuracy of the
system. The Commission on Electronic Voting published its interim
report today, recommending that the government not implement the
system as it is since the constant updates to the software mean it
cannot be tested in time.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/30/ireland_evote/ (
New York Times
High-Tech Voting System Is Banned in California
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: May 1, 2004
California has banned the use of more than 14,000 electronic voting machines made by Diebold
Inc. in the November election because of security and reliability concerns, Kevin Shelley, the
California secretary of state, announced yesterday. He also declared 28,000 other touch-screen
voting machines in the state conditionally "decertified" until steps are taken to upgrade their
security.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/national/01VOTE.html (
Syllabus
Syllabus Magazine
U. of Michigan Automates Tracking Data on Student’s Improves Its Operations
By David Tucker
Large organizations require access to information on a timely and organized basis to
track the efficiency of their internal processes, understand their performance, and stay
abreast of changes in their external environments. Unfortunately, this information tends
to be located in diverse places, reflecting the fact that the requisite information is
usually embedded in a wide range of files, documents, and other "hard copy" sources.
Gaining access to and organizing this information can be difficult – but it doesn't have
to be this way. The University of Michigan School of Social Work is a model of how an
educational organizations can streamline back end processes and save time and money.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=9372 (
The Wall Street Journal
Is It Possible Google
Is Just the Bling-Bling
Of the Nethead Crowd?
May 3, 2004; Page B1
Not that this will cure the world of what seems to be
a feverish case of Googlemania, but it's worth
remembering that for all the talk of Google's
technological sophistication, it, along with its
search-engine competitors, owes its very existence to
a monumental technological failure. And that failure
may limit how far Google et al. will advance in
coming years.
Despite nearly a half century of intense research
effort, computers still have none of the standard
human ability to understand "meaning." Ask a
computer "How much is first-class postage?" and it
not only won't "understand" the query, it also won't
know that the U.S. Postal Service Web site has the
answer.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108353560455799687,00.html? (
Hospitals Turn Off the Pagers and
Find the Doctor Faster
By BARNABY J. FEDER
New York Times
BIG PLANS for using wireless
devices to streamline business practices by tracking things like an
individual yogurt container from the factory floor to the grocery store
door keep slipping into the future.
But when Brian Horton, the director of the emergency department at
Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Ore., needs to talk to somebody
right this minute, he no longer has to have the nurse or doctor paged.
He presses a button on a palm-size device, speaks the person's name
and, in most cases, gets an immediate reply.
http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040504/ZNYT04/405040398/1051/NEWS01
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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