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The internet is rife with thousands (millions?) of websites
and documents which are well-suited to be included in any listing of "Random Thoughts on Information Systems & Technology
for Plant, Office, and Home". Below are just a few that have caught my eye.
- Voting via the Internet? Electronic voting? If you
thought that Florida's 2000 presidential elections were a
fiasco, you ain't seen nuthin' yet. Check out
A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration
and Voting Experiment (SERVE), "a
review and critique of computer and communication security
issues in the SERVE voting system (Secure Electronic
Registration and Voting Experiment), an Internet-based
voting system being built for the U.S. Department of
Defense's FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance Program)". My
gosh, even the venerable New York Times
agrees! As do many of our most noted
political and technology columnists. Read more at
the
Electronic Frontier Foundation and
CountTheVote.org
-
Taking Computers to Task, an article by staff writer W.
Wyat Gibbs published in the July, 1997 issue of
Scientific American magazine. An insightful piece which
discusses the real and imagined productivity gains brought
about by the increasing use of personal computers in the
workplace. Remarkably, this article is possibly more
relevant today than when first published in 1997!
Note: Scientific American has apparently decided to limit
the number of past issues available online, hence this
article no longer available at the main sciam.com website.
It is however available on a subscription basis at
sciamdigital.com. A search turns up several other possible
locations for the article; a fairly complete summary can be
found
here.
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Usability and privacy: a study of Kazaa P2P file-sharing,
a report by Nathaniel S. Good of the Information Dynamics
Lab, HP (Hewlett Packard) Laboratories and Aaron Krekelberg
of the Office of Information Technology, University of
Minnesota. An examination not only of the popular
file-sharing software ("with millions of users online
exchanging files daily") but of the persons who use it and
the dangers of misconfigured software.
- Vincent Flanders'
Web Pages That Suck. The legendary and often hilarious
website "Where you learn good Web design by looking at bad
Web design." An absolute must-read for anyone who is
thinking of building (or hiring someone to build) a web
site.
- Andy McFadden's
CD-Recordable FAQ. Wow! 815+ KB of everything you
could possibly want to know about CDs, CR-Rs, CD-RWs. What
they are. How they are made. How they work. How to burn
them. How to ruin them. In all of my years in this
business, I don't believe I have ever seen a FAQ that covers
its topic so thoroughly.
- Do you know where your resume
is? Do you care? Before you answer, check out Pam Dixon's
2003 Job Search Privacy Study - Job Searching in the
Networked Environment: Consumer Privacy Benchmarks.
Definitely something to think about...
- If you must live in the "digital age" (and you really
don't have much choice in the matter, do you?), you will
want to visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Do it now, do it often.
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