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Absentee Ballots by Email?

Absentee Ballots by Email? 08/30/2004 12:18 PM

Concern grows over postal ballots

Concern grows over postal ballots 05/26/2004 03:08 PM
Printing problems could delay delivery of millions of postal ballots, the BBC has learned.

More uncounted ballots found in Wash.

More uncounted ballots found in Wash. 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
With Washington state in the middle of a recount of its amazingly close governor's race, election officials in Seattle's King County entered a warehouse Friday and found a plastic tray containing 150 misplaced ballots.

E-Vote Machines Drop More Ballots

E-Vote Machines Drop More Ballots 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
Election officials discover another set of electronic voting machines that lost votes, this time in North Carolina. Still, makers of election machines resist calls for mechanisms to produce audit trails. By Kim Zetter.

Voters Urged Not to Eat Their Ballots
(Reuters)

Voters Urged Not to Eat Their Ballots
(Reuters) 06/28/2004 11:24 AM
Reuters - Canadians went to the polls in a federal election on Monday with a firm warning from election officials: Please do not eat your ballots.

Teachers call for strike ballots

Teachers call for strike ballots 03/26/2005 01:21 PM
The biggest education union votes to support ballots for industrial action over the way teachers and assistants work.

Union ballots SBC workers on strike
action

Union ballots SBC workers on strike
action 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
What do we want? Job security and healthcare

Ralph Nader's name can appear on Florida
ballots for the election:

Ralph Nader's name can appear on Florida
ballots for the election: 09/15/2004 12:38 AM
Ralph Nader will be stealing votes .. Bush and Hood .. works

olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&story ID=6224278
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Ballots ask voters to decide on more
than candidates (USATODAY.com)

Ballots ask voters to decide on more
than candidates (USATODAY.com) 09/24/2004 07:53 AM
USATODAY.com - More is at stake on Election Day than who goes to the White House or Congress. On Nov. 2, voters will consider ballot initiatives that could alter the legal, economic or social topography in their states.

IBM looks to improve Web usage for
visually impaired

IBM looks to improve Web usage for
visually impaired 07/15/2004 08:40 AM
IBM on Thursday will preview technology intended to assess and grade Web sites on their accessibility to people who are visually impaired and blind.

Florida shuns paper backup of computer
ballots

Florida shuns paper backup of computer
ballots 02/19/2004 10:02 AM
Miami Herald Feb 19 2004 2:03PM GMT

Wired News: E-Vote Machines Drop More
Ballots

Wired News: E-Vote Machines Drop More
Ballots 02/10/2004 05:01 AM
E-Vote Machines Drop More Ballots .. happens if the vote .. Read article

wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62206,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
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Excellent New Library Service for the
Visually Impaired!

Excellent New Library Service for the
Visually Impaired! 10/31/2003 01:38 AM

InfoEyes: an Online Information Community and Virtual Reference Services for the Visually Impaired

"Under the leadership of the Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille Service, the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center and the Southern Illinois Talking Book Center are pleased to announce the opening of InfoEyes(http://www.infoeyes.org) on November 3, an online information community and virtual reference service for the visually impaired.

Talking book readers, other visually impaired individuals, and librarians are invited to use the trial service. Through the service, library customers can get assistance using the Internet, finding information on the Internet and in periodical databases and reader advisory service. Librarians will be using OCLC Question Point Enhanced software to provide services which include voice over IP, co-browsing, and application sharing. The trial will run through July 30, 2004. It is hoped that more libraries in other states serving the visually impaired will join Illinois in providing these services. Customers will be asked to evaluate the service and resources to help librarians in developing the service. Hours of service are posted on the web page and it is hoped that as more libraries join the service that hours can be extended. If customers want service outside of those hours, they can schedule an appointment or a reference session.

As the project develops, more information will be posted on the website. Tom Peters of TAP Information Services is the project evaluator and will write an evaluation of the project which will be made available when the project ends. If you have questions on the service, please contact Lori Bell (lbell@alliancelibrarysys tem.com) of the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center or Diana Brawley Sussman (dbrawley@shawls.lib.il.us< /A>) of the Southern Illinois Talking Book Center." [The Handheld Librarian]

Tech grant aids visually impaired

Tech grant aids visually impaired 06/28/2004 11:23 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 29 2004 2:59AM GMT

Cingular Makes Phone for Vision-Impaired
(AP)

Cingular Makes Phone for Vision-Impaired
(AP) 09/16/2004 01:19 AM
AP - A new cellular application promises to help vision-impaired people who can't read the screen of a mobile phone. It responds to spoken commands with voice recognition technology and reads back menu options, text messages, and other information to the user.

An innovative computer tool for visually
impaired:-

An innovative computer tool for visually
impaired:- 01/03/2005 12:53 AM
Webindia123 Jan 3 2005 4:39AM GMT

An innovative computer tool for visually
impaired

An innovative computer tool for visually
impaired 01/03/2005 12:53 AM
Webindia123 Jan 3 2005 4:40AM GMT

U.S. web sites inaccessible for the
visually impaired, says Forrester

U.S. web sites inaccessible for the
visually impaired, says Forrester 12/30/2003 04:09 PM
InternetRetailer.com Dec 30 2003 3:08PM ET

Six web sites commended for visually
impaired access

Six web sites commended for visually
impaired access 01/05/2004 03:38 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jan 5 2004 3:11AM ET

Cingular Makes Phone for Vision-Impaired

Cingular Makes Phone for Vision-Impaired 09/16/2004 01:47 AM
AP via Daily Press Sep 16 2004 5:31AM GMT

Use Ballots Not Bullets, Iraq President
Tells Sadr (Reuters)

Use Ballots Not Bullets, Iraq President
Tells Sadr (Reuters) 06/15/2004 06:40 AM
Reuters - Fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr can join Iraqi politics after the U.S.-led occupation ends on June 30, Iraq's interim president said on Tuesday.

HOWTO defeat Pentagon censorware and
cast absentee ballots

HOWTO defeat Pentagon censorware and
cast absentee ballots 09/21/2004 02:31 PM
Cory Doctorow: The Pentagon is blocking websites that help overseas military personnel cast absentee ballots in the upcoming Federal election. The Verified Voter Foundation has initiated a program to create a distributed mirror of absentee voting info and to provide anonymizing proxy services to defeat the military's unconstitutional censorware.

The International Herald Tribune reported on September 20th that "the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots." Pentagon spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Ellen Krenke confirmed that a number of Internet service providers worldwide had been blacklisted "to thwart hackers." Such measures are generally recognized to be ineffective against hackers while blocking legitimate users.

Apparently, the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) website is now blocked to civilians overseas trying to find out how to obtain absentee ballots in at least 25 countries--including Japan, France, Great Britain, and Spain--although military personnel overseas have other mechanisms for requesting absentee ballots.

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Apple offers free fix for visually
impaired iBooks

Apple offers free fix for visually
impaired iBooks 01/29/2004 01:59 PM
Unknown problems become known

Braille for your Feet: A New World for
Blind and Visually Impaired

Braille for your Feet: A New World for
Blind and Visually Impaired 02/01/2005 09:12 PM
New ADA design standards featuring “Universal Design” allowed user groups with conflicting needs to come to a “compromise” solution on detectable warnings. These new standards eliminate earlier lack of continuity in installed systems. [PRWEB Jan 12, 2005]

Kerala News: An innovative computer tool
for visually impaired

Kerala News: An innovative computer tool
for visually impaired 01/05/2005 03:11 AM
KeralaNext.com Jan 5 2005 6:48AM GMT

New Browser Companion Brings the Web to
Children, Speakers of Foreign Languages,
and the Visually Impaired

New Browser Companion Brings the Web to
Children, Speakers of Foreign Languages,
and the Visually Impaired 07/07/2004 02:59 AM
Infowalker 2.0, released today, is a unique, free browser companion for Internet Explorer, which instantly analyzes web pages and dynamically illustrates, translates, and reads them aloud, displays them in large-type, and links directly to on-line catalogues. [PRWEB Jul 7, 2004]

Vanguard Introduces New “FailSafe”
System of Detectable Warnings for Blind
and Visually Impaired.

Vanguard Introduces New “FailSafe”
System of Detectable Warnings for Blind
and Visually Impaired. 12/17/2004 06:31 PM
Vanguard ADA Systems of America resolves deterioration problems in pedestrian ramps for cities nationwide, incorporating its highly effective detectable warning system while cost effectively repairing ramps and vehicular way areas where installation of other brands of detectable warnings have failed. Vanguards R&D team effectively cut the cost in half while tripling the lifespan of these necessary repairs. [PRWEB Dec 2, 2004]

OcuSource Creates Alliance with
InternetSpeech to Allow Vision Impaired
Visitors to “Listen” to the Internet by
Telephone

OcuSource Creates Alliance with
InternetSpeech to Allow Vision Impaired
Visitors to “Listen” to the Internet by
Telephone 03/24/2005 04:20 AM
OcuSource.com, LLC and InternetSpeech, announced the alliance between the companies designed to make the internet more accessible to the elderly, the visually impaired and novice web-surfers via the telephone. [PRWEB Mar 24, 2005]

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over 07/29/2004 05:21 PM
fun post about the blogger breakfast

boston.com/news/blogs/dnc/2004/07/blogging_crosse.html
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Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs? 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?
http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm

Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com.

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs 06/06/2004 06:45 PM
Kansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago• BlogPulse.com offers a blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google to search for “blog” and keywords of interest. ...

Syndication-ESF-0.04

Syndication-ESF-0.04 09/20/2004 01:11 AM

Syndication and CSS

Syndication and CSS 12/31/2003 07:18 AM
This topic seems to have resurfaced now that Joi is putting this in his feeds and there even is a howto... like Shelley, I've yet to be convinced that syndicating CSS is appropriate, but on a purely technical level, here's a few comments ...

oh god not again: syndication and css

oh god not again: syndication and css 01/01/2004 05:42 AM
technical guidance .. Sam Ruby

intertwingly.net/blog/1679.html
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More on syndication

More on syndication 08/05/2004 11:16 PM

Previousl y someone asked about the word syndication and what it means in the blog world. Prompted by a question I received, here are some more thoughts on the use of “Syndicate this Site” and what it means to have and use an RSS feed.

Typically “syndicate this site” means that the site owner has an XML feed (RSS and ATOM are the popular formats) that you can use to read their content. While syndication in the offline world refers to the fact that you can purchase certain content (comics, old TV reruns) for use in your publication, bloggers don’t often think of it that way.

For a variety of reasons, the word syndicate is misused by bloggers. What a blogger means is that they offer a feed that can be used to read their site in a news reader or on a site like My Yahoo or Blo glines that aggregates feeds. They don’t typically mean that you can use their feed on your commercial site.

That said, if you contact some of these blogs, you may be able to get permission from them to use their material on your site with attribution. Some bloggers are open to this and some aren’t. The answer you get will depend greatly on what you intend to do with the feed, who the blogger is, and how nicely you ask.

Associated Press on RSS and Syndication

Associated Press on RSS and Syndication 03/06/2004 02:09 AM
In Enthusiasts Call Web Feed Next Big Thing, Frank Bajak (an AP Technology Editor) does a good job of briefly explaining what RSS, who's using it, and why it's important. The technology behind them is called RSS and I rely on it daily to consult The New York Times, the BBC, CNET News, Slashdot and a few dozen other Web sites that employ RSS to make the very latest news stories or bits of commentary available for the plucking. Of...

Content Syndication with RSS

Content Syndication with RSS 03/19/2003 10:24 PM

Through our arrangement with O'Reilly & Associates, we are pleased to bring you Chapter 2: Content Syndication Architecture, from the new book, Content Syndication with RSS, by Ben Hammersley.

From the chapter introduction:

In this chapter, we'll look at how RSS feeds are structured: both the feed itself and the way RSS fits into the whole web publishing picture.

Read the full text online!

getting excited about syndication again

getting excited about syndication again 06/17/2004 02:57 PM
as always, it's the cool apps that make the effort worthwhile

Syndication By The Numbers

Syndication By The Numbers 04/21/2004 12:54 AM
I spent today at a conference, speaking and listening. The best listening was to a guy named Dave Morse, who helps run a big chunk of network behind a particularly thick firewall. He’s saving time and money big-time using syndication and he can prove it...
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