This week’s issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is up and ready for your consumption. Enjoy!
Online government services up 15%
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Web and Online Culture
A report by a London-based market research company finds that about 30% of citizens using the Internet have accessed online government services, up from 26% a year ago.
Yawn
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Miscellaneous
A Japanese study reveals that people who spend more than five hours in front of a computer screen each day report significantly higher complaints of sleep-related systems and mental stress. I’d write more about this article, but I’m just too tired.
Compare old web pages
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software, Useful Web Sites
Have you used the Wayback Engine yet? If not, what are you waiting for? It’s a great way to view old, no-longer-used web pages. Now, you can use a program called DocuComp to instantly identify the differences between any two historical web pages versions in the archive. Very cool.
Rich only in our heads
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Fun Stuff
As if Forbes Magazine doesn’t have enough lists, here’s a list of the Forbes Fictional Fifteen, the fifteen richest fictional characters ever. Santa Claus tops the list with $Infinity — Richie Rich is a distant second at $24.7 billion.
It’s a great week for privacy…
By Tom Mighell on
The Navy had to take one of its websites offline after Internet surfers found they could access confidential Navy databases.
And the Bank of the West mistakenly exposed the e-mail addresses of over 3,300 of its customers when an employee put the addresses in the “To” line of an e-mail rather than the “BCC”
Best sites for business
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
Time Magazine has a nice listing of the most useful sites for business people who don’t have time to search for them on their own. (Via The Virtual Chase)
Awash in a flood of spam
By Tom Mighell on
Since 1998, the Federal Trade Commission has requested Internet users to forward unwanted spam to it for investigation. The agency now receives over 70,000 forwarded e-mails a day. What does it do with all of them?
A blawg worth reading
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Thanks to Ernie Svenson for the nice mention today. His weblog Ernie the Attorney is a great daily read, with posts on law and technology, weblogging, and current events.
Call me Koma
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Fun Stuff
Your mindless diversion of the day: learning your Hawaiian name.