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Abstract
pub107 The State of Digital Preservation: An International
Perspective
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
DOCUMENTATION ABSTRACTS, INC.
INSTITUTES FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
APRIL 24-25, 2002
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub107abst.html


First Monday July 2002
Management Responsibility in Protecting Information Assets: An Australian Perspective
by Adrian McCullagh
Information is a vital and valuable asset of all modern businesses. The law has treated
information, in most common law jurisdictions, as not being property. Consequently, it is not possible at common law to steal information. In Australia, the Federal Government has recently brought into force a suite of legislation that has the purpose of deterring hackers who unlawfully try to gain access to a computers located in Australia. Further there have been a number of recent judicial determinations that now impose a positive duty upon management (Directors and Officers of a corporation) to implement reasonable steps to prevent a crime from being effected against the corporation. This positive duty includes the protection of information assets of the corporation from hacker attacks and loss of information and its value. Hence computer security is now a board issue in Australia and not just an IT issue.
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_7/mccullagh/index.html


Village Voice 7/24-7/30/02
Buying Trouble
by Erik Baard
They thought they were making routine purchases—the innocent, everyday pickups of  charcoal and hummus, bleach and sandwich bags, that keep the modern household running. Regulars at a national grocery chain, these thousands and thousands of shoppers used the store's preferred customer cards, in the process putting years of their lives on file.
Perhaps they expected their records would be used by marketers trying to better target consumers. Instead, says the company's privacy consultant, the data was used by government agents hunting for potential terrorists.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0230/baard.php


Sun-Sentinel 7/27/02
FedEx jet crash sends candidates scurrying
By Linda Kleindienst
Tallahassee Bureau Chief
Posted July 27 2002
TALLAHASSEE · As qualifying papers and checks for filing fees lay burning
on the tarmac where a Federal Express cargo jet crashed before dawn
Friday, candidates frantically called the state elections division while others
scrambled to find charter planes.
The crash -- and the airport's five-hour closing -- sent what was supposed
to be the last day of qualifying for state offices into total disarray and
forced Gov. Jeb Bush to extend the filing deadline.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-ffedex27jul27.story?
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/28/State/Candidates_make_most_.shtml


The State-Journal Register 7/28/02
Petterchak turns uncle's letters into
personal look at World War II
By DOUG POKORSKI
STAFF WRITER
A Rochester author has taken a collection of letters from an uncle she
never knew and turned them into a history of a little-known aspect of
the U.S. Navy's activities in World War II.
In "Out to Sea Again," Janice Petterchak tells the story of the Navy's
Armed Guard, a unit of 145,000 men who were assigned to serve on and
protect merchant ships, manning guns and performing other functions
during the war.
http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/N07282002,o.asp



Washington Post 7/28/02
Relics From the Ruins
Army Unit Works to Return Belongings of Pentagon Victims
By Avis Thomas-Lester
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 28, 2002; Page C01
The singed piece of cloth brought back memories as soon as Martha Jackson-Holley saw
it.
"I knew it was Jimmie's handkerchief," Jackson-Holley said, remembering her husband.
"Jimmie always folded his handkerchiefs the same way. The edges were never even. He
didn't like me to iron his handkerchiefs. He liked the softness from the dryer."
Sgt. Adalberto Colon also remembers the handkerchief.
He handled it when it came into the Joint Personal Effects Depot at Fort Myer, where
Army Reservists are still working to match jewelry, clothing and other personal effects
with victims of the Sept. 11 Pentagon attack.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10914-2002Jul27.html



Technology Review 7/29/02
How the Postman Almost Owned E-Mail
By Stuart N. Brotman July 29, 2002
A short history of the Postal Service's long relationship with electronic mail.
Imagine that the U.S. Postal Service was in charge of email.
Sound absurd? It does to most people—until they realize that it almost happened.
In 1977, when I first came to Washington, DC, I joined the communications policy program of the Aspen Institute, where I was assigned to research how the impending telecommunications revolution would affect postal service. Instead of muddling through backwater, I uncovered a goldmine of plans and policy dilemmas.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/7045.asp?p=0


Richmond Times Dispatch 7/30/02
Coal mine maps faulty
Miners were misled by incomplete charts
FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS
Jul 30, 2002
SOMERSET, Pa. - Incorrect maps and improper mining techniques are behind
the accident that trapped nine miners in a flooded coal mine, says a retired
miner.
http://timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBGEXR494D.html


FastCompany.com 8/3/02
She's a Paper Tiger
Is your office a mess? Is your company cluttered? Then don't mourn,
organize! Barbara Hemphill teaches companies and their executives
how to do more with less paper.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/61/hemphill.html


International Herald Tribune 8/3/02
Shanghai mailbox opens on past
Craig S. Smith The New York Times
Saturday, August 3, 2002
Since 1951, letters from New York have reached a ghostly
address
SHANGHAI Jean-Michel Dumont, a public relations executive
from France, lives here on Jianguo Xilu, or West Nation-Building
Street. Yet every few weeks he finds a piece of ghostly mail in
his letter box addressed to 47, 506 Pass, Rue Frelupt.
The street has not been officially called Frelupt since 1943,
during the Japanese occupation, when the city's administration
changed the foreign street names to reflect the country's
presumed bright future as part of Japan's Greater East Asia Co-
Prosperity Sphere instead of its supposedly dark, quasi-colonial
past.
http://www.iht.com/articles/66670.htm



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