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RAIN 01/13: Weekend Update 01/07/02 Part 2



There are 10 stories in this posting.

Federal Computer Week 12/21/01
Labor tightening data security
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1217/web-labor-12-21-01.asp

by William Matthews
The Labor Department has begun emphasizing tighter management and security of its vast trove of electronic records. The agency wants to prevent unauthorized access to data that could endanger department employees, said the director of the agency's information technology center.



Federal Computer Week 12/10/01
Tapping a data mother lode
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1210/tec-data-12-10-01.asp

by Dan Caterinicchia
About 85 percent of the information in the databases of agencies or private corporations is so-called unstructured data - e-mail messages, word-processing documents and other files that do not fit neatly into organized rows and columns - but rarely do organizations tap into it.
Looking to reverse that trend, In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, has invested more than $1 million in Stratify Inc., a specialist in managing such data, and signed on as a customer.



Richmond Times Dispatch 01/07/02
Gilmore's papers
http://timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBGYKYM5WC.html

by Michael Hardy
It happens every four years in Virginia.
Position papers. Speeches. News releases. Photographs.
But it's not the quadrennial campaign for governor.
Instead of pushing a candidacy, outgoing Gov. Jim Gilmore and his staff are busily packing to make way for his successor, Democrat Mark R. Warner.



Greenbiz.com 11/2001
Is your office stacked against you?
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/columns_third.cfm?NewsID=18334&pic=3

by Dan Ruben
Whatever happened to the paperless office? Use of copy paper is surging. According to the American Forest & Paper Association, the paper industry distributed 1.7 million tons of office paper in 1982. By 1997, that amount soared to 4.6 million tons. The state of affairs today? According to the Worldwatch Institute, the average American office worker plows through approximately 12,000 sheets of paper per year.



CNET News.com 01/07/02
Group builds onto wall of Web standards
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8353604.html?tag=lh

by Paul Festa
A key Web standards group is moving quickly to seize the initiative in a seesaw battle over methods for creating and viewing Web pages, following a short but deeply felt crisis late last year.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) closed the calendar year with what it called a record number of drafts and a recommendation targeting technologies from interactive TV to Web authoring tools.



Orlando Sentinel 01/07/02
Three Stooges heirs win legal fight
http://orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/sns-scotus-stooges.story?coll=orl%2Dcaltop

by Gina Holland
AP
WASHINGTON -- Thanks to the Supreme Court, heirs of the Three Stooges will get profits from depictions of Moe, Larry and Curly.
The court bypassed a chance to give First Amendment protection to photographers and artists who specialize in celebrities, turning back an appeal from Los Angeles artist Gary Saderup. Justices did not comment in refusing to review the case that pitted freedom of _expression_ against property rights.



Pasadena Star News 01/07/02
Law opens door to public data
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1002,542%257E319059,00.html

by Lisa Faught
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY -- Local gadflies have always complained about the difficulty of getting public documents from City Hall.
But that may change now that a new state law has passed, requiring public agencies to help residents find the information they need, even if they don't ask for it by name.



Washington Post 01/07/02
Preserving History is Soldiers' Target
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6136-2002Jan6.html

by Susan Levine
They are soldiers in camouflage on a special mission, equipped with tape recorders instead of tanks. Officially, their company is only three men strong, yet their focus is terrorism on a vast scale.
As the 305th Military History Detachment, they must chronicle that for posterity.



Providence Journal 01/07/02
Town makes financial information easy to see
http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/blackstone/06815701.htm

by Michael Smith
CUMBERLAND -
Mayor Daniel J. McKee is asking residents to comb through the town's financial documents. Please.
You can go to the town's Web site, for starters, where some of the information is posted.
And if that doesn't satisfy your craving to know how much the town is spending on electricity, snow removal, or whatever else it spends money on, you can go to Town Hall. A computer has been set up in the town's Finance Department for the public to peruse all financial documents.


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