Saturday, November 1, 2003

Toward a paperless government When Congress passed the Government Paperwork Elimination Act in 1998, proponents talked about the remaking of an enormous paper-bound bureaucracy into the prototypical 21st century organization, complete with e-signatures and the electronic storage of documents. If you want an inkling of what this involves, consider that the federal government's computer systems stretch back some four decades, thus representing what may be the biggest IT petri dish in the world. The deadline for complying with the bill came and went last week with little of the fanfare that accompanied the start of the project. CNET News.com caught up with Ray Wells, IBM's top software executive in Washington, D.C., to gain some perspective on how close Uncle Sam is to realizing the ambition of a hard-copy-less system.... By Charles Cooper , Staff Writer, CNET News.com, October 27, 2003 2:16:50 PM

	Sunday, April 20, 2003

on the difference between marks and locks. JD Lasica has a nice pointer to a story about progress in the digital watermarking debate. She wonders about this progress because of work (in part by Ed Felten) suggesting “that all such encryption systems can be defeated.” But there is an important distinction that this debate needs. I’m a strong supporter of flawed (in the sense of defeatable) watermarking. Here’s why: [Lessig Blog] 2:06:00 PM

	Monday, March 31, 2003

E-records management moves front and center. Documentum, Surety target compliance, content archiving [InfoWorld: Top News] 7:02:07 PM

	Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Revealing Ohio's Buried Treasure. Centuries ago, earthen structures of great scientific and cultural significance were built in the Midwest, but farmland and parking lots replaced them in the modern age. A new digital project will create virtual renditions of these earthworks. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 4:23:16 AM

	Thursday, February 27, 2003

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Preparing for Computer Disasters. Most colleges have some sort of plan to protect their computer information, although few have faced the kind of disaster that would demonstrate whether those plans actually worked. Experts say staging a mock computer disaster can highlight a preparedness plan's shortcomings, but such tests happen only rarely. [Tomalak's Realm] 4:46:04 PM

	Monday, February 17, 2003

SJ Mercury: Disk-drive capacity continues to grow. Dan Gillmor. The kinds of files we store keep getting bulkier, but the disk-drive wizards are moving fast enough to stay ahead. In the next few years, given their continuing innovation, they're likely to do something I didn't imagine possible until recently -- give us so much storage at such a low cost that we genuinely don't know how to use it all. [Tomalak's Realm] 4:44:13 AM

	Thursday, February 13, 2003

A more varied range of opinion than the title suggests Health care CIOs: Paperless hospital not ready for prime time. The development of paperless hospital and medical record systems is apparently a time-consuming process inhibited by costs and risks. [Computerworld News] 6:42:17 PM

A Cash Infusion for Digital Archives. Congress has set aside $100 million to carry out a plan for collecting and preserving digital information, including images, CD's, Web pages and electronic journals. By Katie Hafner. [New York Times: Technology] 5:11:11 AM

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