05.16.07

Web Junkie news & links

Posted in News at 9:18 am by Paloma Cruz

It seems “Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual-property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including “attempts” to commit piracy.” How do you prove attempted copyright infringement?

Social Networking giant MySpace is refusing to turn over info on registered sex offenders using their site. The information has been requested by attorneys general from 8 states. They are citing the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act and stating that the AGs didn’t follow legal processes.

ClickZ’s Karen Gedney has a great how-to, or how-she-did-it, article about marketing a conference with e-mail for last-minute preparation. Not something I expect to use, but still a nice article to bookmark.

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05.10.07

blogging in the Army

Posted in News at 12:41 pm by Paloma Cruz

For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, the Army recently set forth new rgulations regulating blogging and e-mailing from soldiers. Basically, the text stated that every blog post and e-mail would have to be cleared by a superior officer or they could get in trouble (I’m paraphrasing here). That doesn’t sound like a very practical thing to do, but then, I’m not at war.

Now, it looks like they might be taking a step bacK. From Wired Blogs:

The Army appears to be backing away from new regulations that require soldiers get their approval from their bosses before they blog and send e-mail.  In a fact sheet and in comments
to the Associated Press, Army officials are saying, in essence, not to
worry about the precise wording of the rules.  The service won’t
enforce ‘em anyway, they promise.

What does the regulation actually state? That army personnel must:

Consult with their immediate supervisor and their OPSEC Officer for an OPSEC review prior to publishing or posting information in a public forum.

(1) This includes, but is not limited to letters, resumes, articles for publication, electronic mail (e-mail), Web site postings, web log (blog) postings, discussion in Internet information forums, discussion in Internet message boards or other forms of dissemination or documentation.

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