Google, Facebook face more scrutiny on privacy policies - May 31, 2010
US lawmakers have reportedly strengthened their enquiry into the privacy practices of two Internet companies - Google, Inc. and Facebook, Inc. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee recently asked Facebook and Google to cooperate with investigations into privacy practices at both companies. Representative John Conyers… Read More
Library of Congress and Columbia University partner to develop geospatial data preservation clearinghouse - May 31, 2010
The Library of Congress and Columbia University have announced an agreement to create a web-based clearinghouse of information about best practices for preserving significant geospatial data. The Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) will fund development of the clearinghouse at the… Read More
American Academy of Physician Assistants partners with NLM on Information Rx - May 31, 2010
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) has announced that it is now part of the National Library of Medicine Information Rx programme. The partnership was formally launched at the 2010 AAPA annual conference. With the Information Rx programme, physician assistants now have a new tool… Read More
NASA joins World Wide Web Consortium - May 31, 2010
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The consortium is an international organisation that develops protocols, standards and guidelines to ensure universal Web access. According to Chris Kemp, chief technology officer for Information Technology… Read More
STIX Fonts version 1.0 released - May 31, 2010
The Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) Fonts, after more than 10 years in development, are now available for free download at www.stixfonts.org. These Unicode-based OpenType fonts have been designed to support the full range of characters and symbols needed in STM… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 31, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Blogs, Twitter, and YouTube: Just Amplifiers of Traditional Media, or a New Set of Filters?); Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Values); Roy Tennant (Survey Finds Dedicated E-Readers to be "Toast"); Brendan Rapple (Publishing in Open Access… Read More
