NFAIS Noteworthy Weblog

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

This blog is worth checking regularly:

Selected references from NFAIS Noteworthy
A Current Awareness Weblog for the information community
http://www.nfais.org/Noteworthy.asp

Elsevier completes acquisition of CIMA Publishing, formerly part of the
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/newhpgnews/production/cima/links/link1.htm

Nerac launches eVigilant, a new Web tracking product.  From the press
release: When the selected Web pages are updated, subscribers receive an
e-mail within 24 hours that lists the content revisions and a link to view
the page. Through the eVigilant link, subscribers view a page that
highlights text changes, providing a quick review of the new information.

http://www.nerac.com/site_2/nerac_news/2003/evigilant.htm

And an earlier item I had missed:

Memo from Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld outlines parameters for
determining what information may be disseminated from DOD Web sites.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2003/01/dodweb.html

JAN 03
SUBJECT:  WEB SITE OPSEC DISCREPANCIES

1.  AN AL QAEDA TRAINING MANUAL RECOVERED IN AFGHANISTAN STATES: "USING
PUBLIC SOURCES OPENLY AND WITHOUT RESORTING TO ILLEGAL MEANS, IT IS
POSSIBLE TO GATHER AT LEAST 80% OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE ENEMY."  AT MORE
THAN 700 GIGABYTES, THE DOD WEB-BASED DATA MAKES A VAST, READILY AVAILABLE
SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON DOD PLANS, PROGRAMS, AND ACTIVITIES.  ONE MUST
CONCLUDE OUR ENEMIES ACCESS DOD WEB SITES ON A REGULAR BASIS.

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