Quite a concept: Public records should be made public

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staugustine.com: Local News: Public
records audit: Some records requests met
with suspicion and threats 02/07/04

staugustine.com: Local News: Public
records audit: Some records requests met
with suspicion and threats 02/07/04 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
staugustine.com: Local News: Public records audit: Some records requests met with suspicion and threats .. tested how officials responded to a routine request to inspect records .. The St. Augustine Record .. Not so well, sadly .. Best excuse

staugustine.com/stories/020704/new_2111766.shtml
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"Public records audit: Some records
requests met with suspicion and threats"

"Public records audit: Some records
requests met with suspicion and threats" 02/10/2004 09:26 PM

Public Records vs. Right to Privacy

Public Records vs. Right to Privacy 02/19/2003 10:11 PM
You might just do a Google search on your name or do an advanced search looking for birthday sites or high school sites," suggests Pierce. ...

Free Public Records - BRB Publications

Free Public Records - BRB Publications 08/12/2004 05:57 AM
Free Public Record Sites- BRB Publications
http://www.brbpub.com/pub recsites.asp

At this web page, BRB provides a core group of links to FREE government searchable public records sites along with some important non-government sites. You will not find superfluous sites or multiple listings of the same link. We have indicated if a site is not searchable by name. The links list is updated weekly. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Informatiuon Blog. This has also been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides.

Public Access to Court Records

Public Access to Court Records 11/13/2003 07:40 AM
Public Access to Court Records
http://www.courtaccess.org/

This site is an information clearinghouse on the topic of public access to court records and the current debate on privacy concerns that arise as courts improve and expand their court information systems and put more information on the Internet.

Public Records Online Directory

Public Records Online Directory 08/20/2004 06:06 AM
Public Records Online Directory
http://www.netronl ine.com/public_records.htm

The Public Records Online Directory is a Portal to official state web sites, and those Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices that have developed web sites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet. For example, some Recorders' offices have marriage and birth records available online. Although not every county and parish has data online, many have home pages, and where neither is available a phone number has been provided. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Disputed SCO Code Won't Be Made Public

Disputed SCO Code Won't Be Made Public 12/16/2003 12:31 PM
I'm sure all of the many many sites focusing on the SCO lawsuit will have more thoughts on this, but the latest news is that, despite an original ruling saying that SCO needed to make the disputed code public, SCO has now convinced the judge that they should o nly present the "evidence" of infringement to the judge, jury and IBM. This means that the open source crew, who have been doing an excellent job picking apart each sample of "infringing" code that SCO has shown so far won't have the ability to go through the rest. The reasoning, of course, from SCO's point of view is that opening up their source code to the public means that it will never get to put it back in the genie bottle. However, that makes no sense. If the entire claim is that this code was taken out of SCO's source code and put into Linux, then the code is already public. Displaying it again does nothing to lessen SCO's control over the code if it really is already out there. The only thing it really does (and the real reason SCO wants to do it this way) is make it more difficult for IBM to go through the code and figure out if (as has been the case so far) SCO is wrong in their claims. This is not a surprise, of course, as SCO has done everything possible to make the process as difficult on everyone else - including the news last week that they delivered the "infringing source code" to IBM on a million sheets of paper. You get the feeling, sometimes, that SCO believes this is all a big game. They're acting like the bratty first-grader who insists on some sort of strict interpretation of what he's been told just for the sake of annoying everyone around him.

Firefox flaw made public

Firefox flaw made public 04/06/2005 04:39 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 6 2005 8:21AM GMT

Search Systems Free Public Records
Directory

Search Systems Free Public Records
Directory 08/16/2004 06:07 AM
Search Systems Free Public Records Directory
http://www.searchsystems.net/

The largest directory of links to free public record databases on the Internet. Find business information, corporate filings, property records, unclaimed property, professional licenses, offenders, inmates, criminal and civil court filings, and much more. Click on the links below to browse the public record links by geographic location or use their "Public Record Locator" to search for a type of public record in a specific area. Now over 20,848 Free Searchable Public Record Databases! This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer&tradel Information Blog and Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

WRAL.com - News - N.C. Cities Want To
Sue Over Public Records Requests

WRAL.com - News - N.C. Cities Want To
Sue Over Public Records Requests 03/28/2005 05:45 AM
N.C. Cities Want To Sue Over Public Records Requests .. these people even in office .. wral-tv report .. reports

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All of European Antitrust Ruling Made
Public

All of European Antitrust Ruling Made
Public 04/23/2004 01:31 AM
New York Times Apr 23 2004 5:53AM GMT

E-Commerce Standard Plans Made Public

E-Commerce Standard Plans Made Public 01/29/2003 01:01 PM
OASIS releases a public draft of the Universal Business Language schemas, which it hopes will become a legal standard for international trade.

Two more Iraq prison deaths made public

Two more Iraq prison deaths made public 05/05/2004 05:06 PM

Affordable PCs made available to public
school teachers

Affordable PCs made available to public
school teachers 08/28/2004 09:28 AM
INQ7.net Aug 28 2004 12:38PM GMT

CNN.com - Records:
Candidate's ex-wife alleged
he pressured her for public sex - Jun
21, 2004

CNN.com - Records:
Candidate's ex-wife alleged
he pressured her for public sex - Jun
21, 2004 06/23/2004 02:07 PM
"It was a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling" .. Jeri Ryan is accusing .. divorce papers

cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/21/ryan.divorce.ap/index.html
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Bush fears his personal e-mail would be
made public

Bush fears his personal e-mail would be
made public 04/17/2005 01:27 AM
Techzonez Apr 17 2005 5:13AM GMT

Inevitably the Kobe case got tried in
public with leaks and press releases,
and once it got tried in public, Justice
lost

Inevitably the Kobe case got tried in
public with leaks and press releases,
and once it got tried in public, Justice
lost 09/02/2004 05:43 PM
Bryant charge dismissed, accuser's lawyer says .. The case didn't even go to trial .. as he wants

cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/01/bryant.trial/index.html
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Guidance for public sector web sites
which sell online to the public

Guidance for public sector web sites
which sell online to the public 12/15/2003 03:35 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 15 2003 3:11AM ET

Chicago's public sculpture can't be
photographed by the public

Chicago's public sculpture can't be
photographed by the public 02/07/2005 02:07 AM
Cory Doctorow: Chicago spent $270 million on its Millennium Park, placing a big public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in the middle of it, bought with public money. Woe betide any member of the public who tries to photograph this sculpture, though: it's a copyrighted sculpture and Chicago is spending even more money policing Chicagoans who try to photograph it and make a record of what their tax-dollars bought.

If I were them, I'd ask for my money back. What kind of jerk sculptor sells the city a piece of public art for a public park and then demands that no one take pictures of it? Christ, they should run this guy out of town on a rail and melt the goddamned sculpture down for scrap. Then they should fire the politician who signed a purchase contract that reserved the photographic rights and run him out of town on the same rail. Between the artist's greed and the procurement officer's malfeasance, this is about the vilest display of human venality I've heard of all day.

The copyrights for the enhancements in Millennium Park are owned by the artist who created them. As such, anyone reproducing the works, especially for commercial purposes, needs the permission of that artist.

Link (via Electrolite)

""Want to learn how to create and
sustain psychosis on a national scale?
Look carefully at the public statements
made by the Department of Homeland
Security.""

""Want to learn how to create and
sustain psychosis on a national scale?
Look carefully at the public statements
made by the Department of Homeland
Security."" 08/28/2004 02:53 AM

A Public Editor for an Internet Public

A Public Editor for an Internet Public 01/07/2004 03:13 PM
For the majority of readers, the New York Times is now an online newspaper with a print edition. Suppose the new public editor began with that fact. Something surprising--even radical--could emerge. Of course it's all speculation...

Public enemy number one – the public.

Public enemy number one – the public. 05/02/2004 12:14 AM

Fun with Public Officials and Public
Databases

Fun with Public Officials and Public
Databases 07/23/2004 02:58 PM
Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood is lying, and I can prove it.

Patriot Act designed to protect Patriot
Act by preventing challenges to it to be
made public

Patriot Act designed to protect Patriot
Act by preventing challenges to it to be
made public 04/29/2004 05:40 PM
Great headline from the Washington Post: "Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act." It has to do with the ACLU filing a lawsuit challenging something in the Patriot Act, but a different provision in the Patriot Act made it illegal for the ACLU to reveal the lawsuit. Neat! Link

How Public is Public Radio?

How Public is Public Radio? 05/31/2004 05:19 AM
revealing how conservative NPR is .. How Public is Public Radio? .. closer look .. study

fair.org/extra/0405/npr-study.html
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"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..."

"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..." 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment---The
Pentagon deleted from a public
transcript a statement Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob
Woodward suggesting that the
administration gave Saudi Arabia a
two-month heads-up that President Bush h

Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment---The
Pentagon deleted from a public
transcript a statement Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob
Woodward suggesting that the
administration gave Saudi Arabia a
two-month heads-up that President Bush h 04/22/2004 05:17 AM

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28729-2004Apr20.html
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Records of UK war heroes made available
online

Records of UK war heroes made available
online 08/16/2004 08:18 AM
BBC Aug 16 2004 12:37PM GMT

MLB.com May Go Public?

MLB.com May Go Public? 08/03/2004 12:32 PM
Major League Baseball is always claiming that they're about to go broke, though it seems like it's more due to some questionable accounting than anything else. However, one "bright" spot appears to be their "Advanced Media" division, which earlier this year announced plans to run the web operations of other sports. The group hasn't been without its problems. They had trouble staying online when they launched and they still seem to be having some problems underst anding that they can't own facts as they attempt to claim control over anyone explaining what's happening in a game unless they've first paid MLB.com. Either way, MLB.com apparently wants to take advantage of an open IPO window for .coms and may try to go public this fall. Now, the timing is especially interesting. The plan, according to the article, is to go public right around the World Series. While they wouldn't necessarily be hyping themselves, it does make you wonder if that will cause some trouble with the SEC's "quiet period." A lot of attention will be geared towards MLB.com during the World Series, and it could raise questions about how fair an IPO at that time would be. Any proceeds from the IPO would be split among the teams who funded the project -- and will then promptly be placed in the owners' pockets rather than on anything useful for the game of baseball.

Going Public Ain't What It Used To Be

Going Public Ain't What It Used To Be 05/25/2004 11:55 AM
Ah, yes, the buzz of the IPO is back. However, as this article points out pretty clearly, too many companies believe that going public in 2004 will be just like going public in 1999. However, the times are quite different, and some companies are realizing that, even if the IPO window looks wide open right now, going public is costly, and it may not be the windfall they're hoping for. At the same time, the article suggests that the increased difficulty in going public will play into the hands of big, established companies who realize that their tiny competitors won't be able to raise tons of cash on Wall Street. Of course, if you read the details of the article, you realize that the companies that won't be able to raise so much Wall Street cash are in that position for a reason: they're not ready to be a public company. They're usually more of a one product company, rather than a real, sustainable business offering. Basically, the entire article can be summed up by saying "companies that shouldn't go public will find it more difficult to go public these days." That seems like a good thing. The only problem is that too many one-product companies don't realize they shouldn't be public, and still hope to cash out like it's 1999. While some of their investors certainly realize that the companies are too young to be public, investors like the idea of cashing out - and are likely to push those companies to go public anyway, which may be troublesome for their long term prospects.

OpenURL for Joe Q. Public

OpenURL for Joe Q. Public 02/16/2004 05:21 PM

How on earth do you explain OpenURL to your patrons? You don't! Here's a great explanation posted on the Library News Blog for Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore:

TRICO : Turbocharge your Research with more!

"When you see the button near a citation in an online database, be sure to click on it! You’ll call up a menu of links that will allow you to connect directly to the full text of an article (if available), a Tripod search, ILL request form, or Live Help."

Public email

Public email 09/21/2004 11:02 AM
Doc Searls: There have been prolific times in the history of this blog. But, on the whole, I doubt its bulk exceeds the outbound text in my daily emails, or even (lately) my daily instant messaging. In fact, I think of this blog as public email. A way to do cc: everybody.

Public yet Proprietary

Public yet Proprietary 12/19/2004 03:06 PM

News about Google Print raises some interesting questions.

If John has the only copy in existance of a physical book of which content not available anywhere, and its copyrights have expired, what rights does John have over the content of the book?

If Dave makes a deal with John to digitize the book's content, what rights does Dave have over the digitized content?

John owns the physical instance of the book, therefore he has full control over access to it even though he does not own the content.  Can John legally dictate terms of use over the content which he does not own in exchange for access?

Dave has a virtual instance of the book, so he also has full access control.  Can Dave provide online access to the book's content under whatever terms he dictates?

Now replace John with an public or government-funded institution.  What rights does the we have over the book and it's digitized contents?

Another twist.  Suppose Evan breaks into Dave's system, takes a copy of the digitized content, and posts it in newsgroups which Phil downloads.  Did Phil break any laws?  Can Phil use the content?

I am not a copyright lawyer so I don't know the answers to these questions.  Perhaps Professor Lessig can answer.

To me, ownerless doesn't mean community property.  It means free for the taking.  Google is doing exactly that, taking.  I have mixed feelings about what they are doing.  On one side, they are making new information readily available which is good.  On the other side, they seem to be claiming stewardship over orphaned information.

Opera Going Public

Opera Going Public 02/10/2004 06:40 PM
The Web browser maker plans a March public listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange in its home country of Norway.

""a public editor,""

""a public editor,"" 10/28/2003 11:09 PM

Why Google Should Go Public

Why Google Should Go Public 12/29/2003 02:51 PM
Search Engine Lowdown Dec 29 2003 1:24PM ET

The Inquiring Public

The Inquiring Public 09/10/2004 04:39 PM
The World's Shortest Blog has "One Simple Question" for George Bush. Nasty. What would you ask Kerry?

How Not To Do Public Relations

How Not To Do Public Relations 09/08/2004 08:21 PM
For a couple minutes I ponder if I should hate this company, and that's not what a real public relations person wants anyone to think after a meeting. By Brian D Foy, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Only in the public sector

Only in the public sector 01/18/2004 03:51 PM

Only a government agency would have hours like this. Not only can a real business not get away with something that complicated, I don’t think it would occur to anyone to do that in the first place.

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