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MSNBC.com 02/27/01
A Substitute for surfing?
http://msnbc.com/news/536031.asp#BODY

by Elliot Zaret
Feb. 27 - Back when the number of Web sites could be counted in thousands or
even hundreds of thousands, the idea of surfing made sense. But now that Web
pages number in the gazillions, even the best search engines have trouble
getting you to the information you really want.
SO, AS THE SAYING goes, instead of going to the mountain, companies are
looking for ways to bring the mountain of information to you - with a new
breed of passive search products that scour the Web for information similar
to what you're interested in and present it to you in the background while
you're working.


Editorial & Publisher Online 03/02/01
Orlando Sentinel seeks Earnhardt Autopsy Photos
Pictures normally considered public documents
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/030201n6.htm

by Randy Dotinga
The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel is trying to reach an agreement with the widow
of race car driver Dale Earnhardt that will allow the newspaper - and the
public - to view the NASCAR champion's autopsy photos. The Sentinel wants to
hire a medical expert to inspect the photos, said newspaper attorney David
Bralow.


Sports Illustrated 03/05/01
Wanting answers
Earnhardt autopsy photos could end controversy
<http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/news/2001/03/05/photos_thomas_
viewpoint/>

by Stephen Thomas
In the aftermath of Dale Earnhardt's death at the Daytona 500 two weeks ago,
beneath the whys and behind the tributes, there were those few soft voices
that expressed the quiet hope that, please, let's at least learn something
from this.
Not least among those expressing that hope were some of Earnhardt's peers
within the NASCAR community.




New York Times 03/05/01
Court: FOIA applies to Indian Tribes
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-FOIA.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Indian tribes cannot claim that correspondence with the
federal government is exempt from the federal Freedom of Information Act,
the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The tribes and the federal government had argued that seven documents were
protected under an exemption to the sunshine law.
The unanimous ruling is a blow to tribes that hoped to stop opponents in a
water rights dispute from seeing records passed between the tribes and the
federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.



Orlando Sentinel 03/05/01
Earnhardts welcome at photo exam, Sentinel says
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/motorracing/orl-spt-photos05030501.st
ory?coll=orl%2Dsports%2Dheadlines>

by Pamela J. Johnson
Hoping to re-emphasize that Dale Earnhardt's autopsy photos would not be
published, the Orlando Sentinel on Sunday invited representatives of the
Earnhardt estate and the courts to accompany the newspaper's medical expert
when he reviews the photographs.




New York Times 03/05/01
Compressed Data: protection for networking systems
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/technology/05YANK.html?searchpv=nytToday>

"Unauthorized Change in the Wiring Closet."
The title of an experimental techno-punk rock album? An alarm that Lex
Luthor might sound as Clark Kent morphs into Superman?
No. Simply one manifestation of a new weapon in the war that corporate
technology managers wage against would-be saboteurs and the just plain
clueless.




Los Angeles Times 03/05/01
Firm must use its new equipment to earn badge of efficiency
http://www.latimes.com/business/20010305/t000019527.html

by Cyndia Zwahlen
Special to the Times
In his search for high-tech innovations for his low-tech manufacturing
company, Everett Visk found that it was his front office, not the shop
floor, where the fastest, cheapest and biggest productivity gains could be
made.
Productivity and efficiency have become increasingly important at V&V
Manufacturing Inc., which makes commemorative pins, awards and police
badges, as price pressure from computerized U.S. competitors and low-cost
overseas companies has mounted.



BtoB ONLINE 03/05/01
Software uupdates records within law
As barriers between banks and insurers fall, Acxiom's new tool protects
privacy
http://www.btobonline.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=5239

by John Evan Frook
Acxiom Corp., a Little Rock-based direct mail data integration specialist,
is trying to turn regulation into opportunity.
Last month, it released new versions of its real-time AbiliTec data
management service, designed to give financial institutions an upper hand
when dealing with required updates of customer files mandated by the federal
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.




Washington Post 03/05/01
Spy case prompts computer search
Hanssen's access brings systems probe
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22451-2001Mar4.html

by Vernon Loeb
Experts are combing government computer systems to try to ensure that Robert
P. Hanssen, the veteran FBI agent accused of spying for Moscow, did not
sabotage them or create software vulnerabilities that could allow Russian
intelligence agencies to steal information while Hanssen is in jail, senior
U.S. officials said.




The Times 03/04/01
Firms will have to buy over the net to stay competitive
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/03/04/stibusnws02003.html

by David Sumner Smith
Websites are just the start of the e-business revolution, says James Dobree,
president of Zygon Systems. "E- procurement will bring far more fundamental
changes. The role of every company in the supply chain will change."
Bob Davis, executive director of the Association of Manufacturing
Excellence, is even starker in his warnings. "If businesses have not
implemented an e-procurement system within the next four years they won't be
able to survive. It offers such huge cost savings that companies will be
unable to compete without it."




CNET News.com 03/05/01
Hack at Amazon-owned service exposes thousands
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-5031805.html?tag=mn_hd

by Troy Wolverton
Amazon.com-owned book service Bibliofind.com restarted its Web site Monday
in the wake of a hacker attack that compromised some 98,000 customer records
and forced the company offline.



CNET News.com 03/05/01
Hotmail users unwittingly opting for spam?
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5031018.html?tag=mn_hd

by Associated Press
WASHINGTON--Hotmail, the free e-mail service from Microsoft, is divulging
subscribers' e-mail addresses, cities and states to a public Internet
directory that combines the information with telephone numbers and home
addresses.
Hotmail customers are automatically added to InfoSpace's Internet White
Pages directory unless they remove the check from a box in their
registration form and "opt out," company representatives said.



Businesswire 03/06/01
CourthouseDirect.com Builds largest public record depository to date
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/210650082&ticker=

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2001--CourthouseDirect.com, a specialized
Internet portal headquartered in Houston is now providing public records
from four boroughs in New York and three counties in Michigan. Courthouse
document images containing real property and official records including
deeds, mortgages, liens and abstracts of judgment in Manhattan, Bronx,
Queens and King in New York and Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties in
Michigan have been added to the database. CourthouseDirect.com currently
supplies images for 65% of the U.S. population centers online.




Daily Yomiuri 03/06/01
Ministry trashed papers proving misuse of funds
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010306wo03.htm

The Foreign Ministry disposed of internal documents, including accounting
records from 1994 that could have been used to prove that classified
government funds were misappropriated, after the embezzlement scandal
involving a former ministry section chief came to light, ministry officials
said Monday.




New York Times 03/06/01
Frick mementos to be restored in New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/06/nyregion/06FRIC.html?searchpv=nytToday

Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, March 5 - The letters, home movies and even a cigar belonging to
the industrialist Henry Clay Frick will be shipped to New York City for
restoration as part of a settlement between the Helen Clay Frick Foundation
and the attorney general's office.
The agreement, announced today, ends a lengthy tug of war that pitted
Frick's great-granddaughter Martha Frick Symington Sanger against the
foundation's board members, some of whom are also Frick's descendants.




New York Times 03/06/01
Interpreting the images of slavery on the Confederacy's money
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/06/arts/06SLAV.html?searchpv=nytToday

by David Firestone
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Without a magnifying glass, it is difficult to see the
faces on the slaves as they harvest cotton and hoist overflowing baskets to
their shoulders. Minutely engraved on the tattered currency of the old
South, the images are faded and smudged, and their message has languished in
the vaults of collectors.
About four years ago, a collector took one of the old Confederate bank notes
into a North Charleston blueprint shop and asked an employee, John W. Jones,
to have it enlarged. Mr. Jones, an artist and commercial illustrator who
frequently paints African-American themes, studied the engraving on the note
and was struck by the Confederacy's decision to use as its monetary symbol
an accomplished image of a black field hand straining at the cotton harvest.




New York Times 03/06/01
Library of Congress cited for fire risks
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/06/national/06LIBR.html?searchpv=nytToday

WASHINGTON, March 5 - The Library of Congress was ordered today to fix fire
safety violations that threatened treasures like a Gutenberg Bible, Thomas
Jefferson's personal library and 30,000 recordings on cylinders that predate
phonograph records.



The Irish Times 03/06/01
Songs from the left and right
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2001/0306/fea5.htm

by Alex Bell
I can do a very good impersonation of someone humming badly to the
Internationale. Singing is a gift that never got delivered to me. I've
always envied those who can conjure up rattling tunes and defiant lyrics at
the drop of a whiskey. This is why people like Janey Buchan make me feel
terrible. Janey is an ex-communist, former Labour MEP and a woman with more
songs in her head than most of us will have thoughts. She doesn't just know
Scottish and Irish political songs, but can quote freely from American folk
to Italian opera.




Ottawa Citizen 03/06/01
Blood agency 'frightening' in its secrecy
Victims of tainted blood denounce CBS's policy of hiding information
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010305/5041647.html

by Mark Kennedy
Canada's blood agency, despite promising to shed the secrecy of its
predecessor, is under fire from tainted-blood victims for designing a
freedom of information policy that gives it the power to keep crucial
records hidden from the public.
Critics say that by adopting such a closed-door approach, the Canadian Blood
Services (CBS) has ignored the lessons of the tainted-blood tragedy of the
1980s, which led to the downfall three years ago of the Red Cross as the
nation's collector.




The Kentucky Post 03/05/01
'Foolproof' system may be illegal
http://www.kypost.com/2001/mar/05/online030501.html

by Jeanne Houck
Questions from a Northern Kentucky district judge have led a New
Jersey-based online company to pledge to stop selling a $99 booklet
purporting to tell people how to leave bad driving and credit records
behind.
Stan Billingsley, a district judge in Carroll, Grant and Owen counties,
contacted authorities after learning about Nature's Dezign and its booklet.
Billingsley's inquiry led the Kentucky Attorney General to launch a review
and got the attention of the New Jersey Attorney General.



Ninemsn 03/05/01
Patient medical records up for sale: report
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/story_9419.asp

More than half of Australia's doctors reportedly have links with a private
software company which plans to sell patients' medical records.




Roanoke Times 03/06/01
The next files
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story108481.html

by Duncan Adams
In days of cuneiform and clay, document filing and retrieval must have been
a real grind.
Millennia later, filing and file retrieval remain for many companies a
cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming task.
Enter the gigabyte; and Integrated Imaging of Roanoke with its scanners,
custom software, and Information Age savvy.
>From bulky blueprints to 3-inch-square Post-it notes, from legal briefs to
accident photos, Integrated Imaging can transform paper documents into
electronic images and then integrate them with existing computer databases,
company networks, and the Internet.




U.S.Newswire 03/05/01
Robert Wolfe to assist historical research effort
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0305-134.html

COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Steven Garfinkel,
chairman of the War Crimes Records Interagency Working Group (IWG),
announced the addition of Robert Wolfe to the IWG's historical
research staff. The group advises the IWG regarding the historical
context of newly declassified materials. It comprises researchers
and other historians, including Richard Breitman, Timothy Naftali
and Edward Drea.




Jerusalem Post 03/06/01
A cyber Sherlock Holmes
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/03/06/Features/Features.22495.html

by Gwen Ackerman
(March 6) - Israel's Computer Crimes Squad has made headlines recently, but
much of its work goes on behind the scenes and depends on technology that
teens often know better than professionals
The criminal of the Information Age has forsaken ski masks, safe-cracking
equipment and other classic tools of the trade. The PC and modem are his
weapons of choice; the Internet, his get-away car. In response, Sherlock
Holmes and his magnifying glass are giving way to cyber sleuths who look for
clues on hard drives and pursue suspects in Web chat rooms.



The Daily Illini 03/05/01
1975 time capsule unveiled, new capsule buried at U. Illinois
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010305/odd-8

by Jadine Young
U-WIRE) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Using a 9-volt battery that survived a 25-year
burial in a time capsule, an electronic device lit up at the Engineering
Open House on Saturday.
Mark Kushner, University of Illinois professor of electrical and computer
engineering, presented the device, a light-emitting diode, to a packed tent
of onlookers beside Engineering Hall.




Chattanooga Times-Free Press 03/06/01
Judge may decide who owns historical scrapbook
http://www.timesfreepress.com/2001/mar/06mar01/webscrapbookclaim.html

by Dick Cook
A Chattanooga judge will decide ownership of a historical scrapbook once
owned by Charles M. Seward, the grandson of President Abraham Lincoln's
secretary of state.
"It really disturbs me that (Heather Nelson) found my father's scrapbook and
turned it into police ... then she decides she wants it,'' said Mary Charles
Seward McDonald of Marietta, Ga. "I just want my dad's scrapbook back.''
Ms. Nelson discovered the scrapbook that contained among other memorabilia,
a letter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to Mr. Seward. She found the book
in a trash can at a car wash next door to where she works on Feb. 17, and
promptly turned the book over to police.




Nando 03/06/01
New museum to tell the story of D.C.
<http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500460535-500701550-503820938-0,
00.html>

by Derrill Holly
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (March 6, 2001 3:57 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - The
District of Columbia will soon have a museum honoring its ordinary people to
stand alongside the monuments and memorials honoring the nation's most
powerful.
By March 2003, a library built in the early years of the last century will
become a showcase for the history of the nation's capital, officials
announced Tuesday.



Gloucester Daily Times 03/05/01
Tierney pays for record-keeping snafu
http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/g/gmon.pl?slug-GTIER5

by Alan Burke
Essex County Newspapers
PEABODY -- In a settlement with the Federal Election Commission, U.S. Rep.
John Tierney has paid a $4,500 fine for violating rules governing campaign
finance reports dating from 1994, when he first ran against then-Rep. Peter
Torkildsen.
Tierney says the violations are technical, inadvertent reporting errors that
had no impact on his campaigns. The fine represents a civil penalty.




Indianapolis Star 03/06/01
Lawmakers try to shield computer files
Late amendment would make e-mails and Internet records of public officials
private
http://www.starnews.com/news/politics/articles/secret0306.html

by Michele McNeil Solida
In a sneak attack on the state's public records, legislators on Monday
amended a bill to make e-mail and Internet files of public officials
private.
State representatives are expected to vote today on House Bill 1083, which
would convert these now-public computer records into confidential files.
The state's public employees -- whether they be the governor, a school
superintendent or an office secretary -- are held to a higher standard than
private citizens because they're paid with taxpayer dollars, and are doing
the public's work. Their business is public business, which means anyone can
inspect their records -- including memos and e-mails.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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