A while back I blogged about the made-up story in The Onion about Pres Bush being asked to shut down his blog. Now, as it turn out, the White House may actually be incorporating blog-like …
Year: 2004
Access Thousands of Electronic Journals & Newspapers at No Cost Through Badgerlink
In case you haven’t discovered it yet, let me introduce you to an awesome resource called Badgerlink. I just mentioned it in my last post and it dawned on me that maybe not everyone is …
Article: Digital Video System in Police Cars
Here’s an interesting article from the Patriot News (8-12-04), “Police Plugged In; Digital Video Gives Officers Solid Evidence” on the use of digital video in police cars. (Wisconsin residents can view the article at no …
Article: New Survey on How People Use the Internet
TVC Alert has a nice summary of the article, Searching for Maps Tops Net Survey, from CBS Marketwatch. Survey: How the U.S. Uses the Net (11 Aug) A new survey by the Pew Internet & …
Free Public Domain Photo Database
PDPhoto is a database of photos that are in the public domain and can be used for any purpose. From the site: PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly …
Tech Tip: Create Basic, Low-cost Animations in PDF
A blog I read called yclipse had a neat tech tip for using Adobe Acrobat to create basic, low-cost animations in PDF. An example shows an animated diagram of an auto accident. From yclipse: Use …
Article: American Library Association to Educate Kids About Copyright
From Wired News comes “Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools,” an article about the American Library Association’s campaign to educate kids about copyright and fair use. For the third year in a row, software companies are supplying …
Text Messages as Evidence
There is an article in PC Magazine.com this week entitled “Messages Can Be Forever” about the retrievability of text messages sent via cellular phones. Here are a couple bits from that article: This was cast …
Article: Spam Filters Junking Legit Emails
There is a good article in TechNewsWorld this week called “Filters Get Smarter, But So Do Spammers” about spam filters and the dangers of filtering about legitimate emails. TVC Alert’s Genie Tyburski shared this advice: …
New Service – Dept of Labor Offers Email Alerts
The Department of Labor recently announced a free electronic subscription service, which allows citizens to receive notifications by e-mail alerting them to newly available information. Subscribers can choose to receive alerts on number of topics …