Thursday, November 21, 2002

Administration Responds to Negative Press on "Total Information Awareness" Evidently, the Bush administration is worried about recent negative press surrounding John Poindexter's new project at the Pentagon (see Gillmor, Robb for run down of early stories).  Today and Yesterday, WSJ, Washington Post, New York Times, all carried explanation of why we need not worry about the initiative. Basically, they say we are only looking for the bad guys...   12:55:26 PM

Are Tax Payers going to subsidize Content Kings? Free Web Research Link Closed Under Pressure From Pay Sites By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 21, 2002; Page E01 The Energy Department has shut down a popular Internet site that catalogued government and academic science research, in response to corporate complaints that it competed with similar commercial services. Department officials said abandoning PubScience, an electronic service that cross-indexed and searched roughly 2 million government reports and academic articles, will save the government $200,000 a year because two equivalent services exist in the private sector. 12:32:56 PM

Radical Center or Emerging Majority? Where Republicans invaded Democratic turf. GOP gained among women, unions, Hispanics. A sign for 2004? [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] 9:32:58 AM

Small Government and the Right to be Left Alone... Republican virtues? Security act to pervade daily lives. The new law centralizes all the snooping activities allowed by the Patriot Act. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] 9:31:05 AM