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- Good intentions aside, lawmakers are stymied by kids who lie about their ages
- The Web is a lawless country. Try as politicians might, they just cant put regulations that really work to keep pedophiles and other ner-do-wells from contacting minors on MySpace - because they they havent found a way to keep minors from lying about their ages. The New York Times...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- A little money encourages Web reporters to confront Chinese government
- China, reknown for arresting journalists who dont tow the party line, has a new phenomenon with a capitalistic twist to deal with--journalists for hire. The Washington Post reports that although reporters may be unwilling to investigate government wrong-doing due to fears of harassment or imprisonment, a little financial incentive just...
- Tags: Government technology, China
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Sale of IRS.com stirs Congress into action on domain names
- When Intersearch.com paid $12.5 million for the domain name irs.com ("Were not the Internal Revenue Service, were the #1 INDEPENDENT resource for tax information"), some in Congress had had enough. Hours after Intersearch president Daniel ODonnell rang the bell to start the trading day at the American Stock...
- Tags: Web, IRS, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- MT posts driving records on the Web
- Not that most people want to be reminded of how many speeding tickets they have, but just in case youre curious, Montana now posts that information on the web, reports the Associated Press. Maybe its not the first thing one would look at on the Internet, but knowing how...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- VA withdraws gun ownership data from the Web
- If Joe citizen has a hankering to see who can carry a registered concealed hand gun in Virginia, hell be sorry to learn that the state police are withdrawing the database of permit holders for public viewing, reports the Times-Dispatch. According to an opinion by Attorney General Bob...
- Tags: Open government, Government technology, Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- ICANN gives final no-no to XXX domain
- ICANN officially rejected the .xxx registry, first proposed seven years ago by ICM Registry. The final vote was 9 to 5, The New York Times reports. “We are extremely disappointed by the board’s action today,” Stuart Lawley, chairman of ICM Registry, said. “It is not supportable for...
- Tags: Web, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- MO puts an end to prisoners use of penpal websites
- The ability to communicate to millions of people over the Internet was not what Missouris Department of Corrections had in mind when the allowed inmates to write letters to people on the outside. But thats just what some inmates are doing, forcing the department to ban offenders from soliciting penpals...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, inmate, Web site, Internet, Web
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Federal agencies don't use Web to distribute information
- Federal agencies have abjectly failed to use the Internet for information dissemination, a new study says, according to the Washington Post. In 1996, Congress passed the "e-FOIA" law to require agencies to put public information online, thus increasing public knowledge and controlling FOIA compliance costs. But the new...
- Tags: agency, E-FOIA, National Security Archive, FOIA, Federal Agency, Web
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- MA website sloppiness excludes blind users
- Blind people of Boston and their advocates are accusing the state government of not doing enough to make online budget information accessible to the visually impaired, reports the Boston Herald. Graphs, charts and other online devices that highlight the governors $26 billion budget plan arent any use to the...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Congressional hearings now safe for the Web
- Following a report in the New York Times ZD Government post here that video of US House and Senate hearings are actually the intellectual property of C-Span, which uses its own equipment to record the sessions by agreement with the government, programmer Carl Malamud hacked up a way to capture...
- Tags: Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- NYC wants a YouTube: 911
- Call it 911 2.0. Well, maybe thats a little awkward but the idea is right. New York City wants to change its 911 system so that citizens can upload digital photos and video, mostly from cellphones, Newsday reports. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Web, Emergency, cell phone
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Grants.gov finally available to Mac users
- Just about a full year after The Washington Post revealed that Grants.gov, the online grants application service the federal government unveiled with great fanfare, was only available to Windows users, IBM has come up with Mac software that allows the service to work on both platforms, Macworld reports. Grants.gov...
- Tags: Government technology, Web, PureEdge Solutions, Apple Macintosh, Grants.gov
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- MT puts lobbyist donation data online
- In the halls of Congress and most state capitols, exactly what lobbying groups are donating how much to which candidates is duly reported on paper and filed away, making it super-difficult for Joe Citizen to find out. In Montana thats all changing, with the states launch of a database of...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Web, database
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- ME Republicans introduce Tax Me More bill
- Call this political bravery - or stupidity. And from a Republican no less. The Bangor Daily News reports that Rep. Scott Lansley is proposing a Web site that would allow citizens to donate money to their favorite state government programs - for people who just think their tax refund checks...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Web, tax
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- TN legislative website improves access to votes
- Voting records of Tennessee legislators are difficult to find online. One has to search through an image file of a print publication, which can be tedious to say the least. That may be changing, though. State House speaker Jimmy Naifeh and newly elected Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey have a plan...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Web, government, Ramsey
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- In GA, pundits' blogs get more buzz than politicians'
- Morris News Service takes a look at some political blogs in Georgia, noting that politicians are disappointed their efforts dont exactly burn up the blogosphere. One local politician, Doug McKillip, a Democrat from Athens, Ga., starting blogging to try to reach younger voters. Mr. McKillips blog is hardly...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, Web, blog
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- For OK, group promotes sunshine Web to disclose spending
- More transparency in government spending is one of the goals for a conservative lobbying organization that promotes a "sunshine Web" - a website that discloses all government spending - reports the Associated Press. The Oklahoma chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a national group that promotes limited government, announced...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Web, government, Web site
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Obama announces - on the Web
- In yet another sign of the central role of the Internet on electoral politics, Barack Obama announced today that he is launching an exploratory committee for a run for the Democratic nomination for presidency. Whats notable is how he made the announcement, not in a press conference or call to...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Barack Obama, Obama, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Arnold leads the nation with high-tech website
- Arnold Schwarzenegger worked with plenty of technology in movies like "The Terminator." Now, as governor of California, hes working with plenty of high-tech again. Gov. Schwarzeneggers website is far and away the most technologically advanced government site in the country - exceeding even the White House, The San...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Web site, Arnold, Jimmy Orr
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- Huffington Post wants online debate in 08
- The Huffington Post is inviting presdential candidates to an online debate - an Internet first, Reuters reports. "2008 is going to be critical, in terms of the coverage of the election," founder Arianna Huffington said. "We are working to put together the first primary online debate among...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, Web, online debate, Huffington Post
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
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