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RAIN 11/20: Lost in Cyberspace, Afghan archives, County e-mail



There are 19 stories in this posting.

Daily Herald 11/19/01
Banks broaden ID requirements
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cdh/20011118/lo/banks_broaden_id_requirements_1.html

by Mike Comerford
Firstar banks in the Chicago area have joined a growing number of banks that are accepting Mexican-issued identification cards to open checking and savings accounts.
The subsidiary of Minneapolis-based US Bancorp began its new policy at about 15 of its 42 local branches on Nov. 1.


Canoe 11/18/01
Bill would give Inuit their names back after 30-year-old government mistakes
http://www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.Nunavut-Names.html

CP
IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) -- For three decades, Inuit in every part of Nunavut have lived with officially assigned names they knew were not their own.
Now, the territorial government is considering legislation to make it easier for them to get their real names back.


Rocky Mountain News 11/19/01
CBI criminal records to go online
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_882048,00.html

by John Sanko
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation hasn't lacked for business since the events of Sept. 11, but it expects things to get even busier when the new year arrives.
That's when it anticipates going online with a program that will allow criminal background checks to be made on the Internet by people wanting to check out job applicants, renters, neighbors or maybe even boyfriends.



New York Times 11/19/01
Companies compete to provide Saudi Internet veil
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/technology/19SAUD.html

by Jennifer 8.Lee
Nearly a dozen software companies, most of them American, are competing for a contract to help Saudi Arabia block access to Web sites the Saudi government deems inappropriate for that nation's half- million Internet users.
For the companies, the Saudi account would be important not only for the direct revenue - which analysts say could be worth several million dollars - but also for its value as a flagship that could help win similar contracts from other governments.



Daily Record 11/19/01
Internet could speed tax work
http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/news4-111901.htm

by James A. Duffy
Morris County residents soon could save themselves a trip to Morristown by accessing tax records and forms on the Internet.
The Board of Taxation Web site, still very much in the developmental stages, could allow people to download forms for deductions and exemptions, among other tasks that today are completed by submitting documents either through the mail or by hand delivering them to the board's office in Morristown.



Grands Rapid Press 11/19/01
Editorial: Executive privilege?
http://gr.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20011119gedit1104804.frm

A recent executive order by President Bush turns back the clock on open government and needlessly handicaps historians and journalists in their pursuit of timely information. Congress should review the decree, which restricts public access to former presidents' papers, and correct its unnecessary restrictions.



New York Times 11/19/01
Fast search engine says it now offers quick news updates
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/technology/19FAST.html?searchpv=nytToday

The search-engine service provider Fast Search and Transfer has added constantly updated news stories to the results provided by its flagship site, Alltheweb.com.



The Globe and Mail 11/19/01
Come to your census, Statscan
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20011119&dateOffset=&hub=headdex&title=Headlines&cache_key=headdexComment&current_row=4&start_row=4&num_rows=1

by Bill Waiser
Statistics Canada is getting desperate. How else can one explain the recent Department of Public Works contract tender to convene 14 town hall meetings (one in every province and territory) and 24 focus group sessions (two in every centre) to survey the public's attitude to the release of historical census records? There's nothing wrong with public consultation. But Statscan has already been down this road.



Reuters 11/19/01
Image archive offers window on Afghan life
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011119/lf/life_afghanistan_dc_1.html

by Christopher Noble
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (Reuters) - The video footage shows a small boy, who looks about 10 or 11, crouched on the ground trying and failing repeatedly to insert a magazine into the AK-47 assault rifle cradled between his knees.



Adweek 11/14/01
Is advertising art? A Smithsonian show fuels the debate
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/bpiaw/20011114/ad/_b_h1_is_advertising_art_a_smithsonian_show_fuels_the_debate_h1_b__1.html

by Wendy Melillo
Inside America's largest museum complex, the untutored eye might assume the image of a woman adorned in a bright yellow dress, one white-gloved hand gripping a parasol, is something by an Impressionist. And after a cursory glance, the poem of love and longing printed beneath her could be confused with a Robert Browning work.



Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 11/19/01
School bus drivers' names must be released appeals court says
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov01/bus19111801a.asp

by Tom Kertscher
The names of the 1,400 bus drivers who transport Milwaukee Public Schools students are a matter of public interest and, in most instances, must be disclosed under the state public records law, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.


New York Times 11/8/01
Online Shopper: Know thy retailer: Help for mail phobia
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/technology/circuits/08SHOP.html

by Michelle Slatalla
NO one loved the surprise of mail more than I did. I have even been known to start humming the tune to "Wells Fargo (news/quote) Wagon" when I spied a package waiting on the stoop.


Computerworld 11/19/01
Lost in Cyberspace
Corporate archivists look to save digital records after early Web sites vanished
http://computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO65876,00.html

by Todd R. Weiss
Librarians and archivists have been saving artifacts, newspapers, photographs and books for years to preserve historical records. Today, their work is made even more complicated because so much of our unfolding history is chronicled on the Internet.



ComputerWorld 11/19/01
Sept 11 Web site postings archived
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO65875,00.html

by Todd R. Weiss
Last month, the Library of Congress announced it had begun collecting a massive digital record comprising gigabytes of data culled from thousands of news, personal and tribute Web sites related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. The project began when a library official realized that if the electronic history of the unfolding events wasn't carefully preserved, it would probably be lost forever.



Associated Press 11/17/01
Media use Neb. Afghanistan Center
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011117/us/afghanistan_experts_1.html

by Margery Beck
AP
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Deep in the geology department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha lie unpublished, detailed maps of Afghanistan's cavernous terrain. The library guards one of the largest foreign-held collections of Afghan manuscripts, and the professors are among the top U.S. experts on the region.


Cincinnati Enquirer 11/15/01
Meet the Freedom Center's executive director
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/11/15/loc_meet_freedom_centers.html

by John Johnston
WASHINGTON - The museum that displays Lincoln's top hat, the Star-Spangled Banner and the desk on which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence also has a place for a picture of a rather ordinary American, Rufus Franklin Crew.


Los Angeles Times 11/19/01
Commentary: New privacy policy hinders public's right to know
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000092476nov19.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

by Martin E. Halstuk
Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's new policy on how the executive branch should treat requests for federal records under the Freedom of Information Act holds a potentially alarming consequence for open government in the United States.



Federal Computer Week 11/19/01
Pa. Police to unite e-records
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2001/1119/web-patch-11-19-01.asp

by Brian Robinson
The Pennsylvania State Police have awarded a $17 million, three-year contract to combine their extensive criminal records systems, including one that holds some 2 million paper-based files, into a single electronic document system.



Providence Journal 11/18/01
Racial profiling data not reported
http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/news/06567041.htm

by Bruce Landis
PROVIDENCE -- The Providence police kept records of fewer than 20 percent of the cases where officers stopped motor vehicles in June, according to the department's figures.


InternetWire 11/19/01
Press Release: TrueArc ™ and Microsoft ® receive DoD 5015.2 certification for SharePoint portal server
http://www1.internetwire.com/iwire/release_html_b1?release_id=34821

ARLINGTON, VA -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 11/19/2001 -- TrueArc, Inc., a recognized leader in the intelligent classification, storage and retrieval of electronic and non-electronic communications, and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), announced today that their integrated solution - SharePoint Portal Server and TrueArc's ForeMost Enterprise - has been tested and is now certified as being compliant with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 standard (STD) for electronic recordkeeping systems (ERS).


Wichita Eagle 11/19/01
Is county e-mail a public record?
http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2001/11/19/localnews/1119county_txt.htm

by Dion Lefler
When Sedgwick County commissioners unanimously rejected domestic partner benefits for county employees, they said they did so because of the overwhelming volume of calls and e-mails they had received opposing the benefits.
Maureen Horowitz had a simple question: How many e-mails were for and against?








Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va