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Wi-Fi year in review: The Seattle Times runs through the major Wi-Fi stories of 2002 in a concise and interesting fashion, hitting the high points and telling the business story behind them.  [80211b News]

The Village Voice: Nation: Nat Hentoff: We'll All Be Under Surveillance. Without any official public notice, and without any congressional hearings, the Bush administration–with an initial appropriation of $200 million–is constructing the Total Information Awareness System. It will extensively mine government and commercial data banks, enabling the FBI, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies to… Continue reading Nation: Nat Hentoff: We'll All Be Under Surveillance

Library Usability. – “People use libraries in many different ways, for many different purposes. Making libraries more usable means helping people successfully acheive their goals and complete their tasks in the most efficient and effective way possible. “Library-usability.org is a clearinghouse of sorts, and a forum. It is a place to share knowledge, skill, and… Continue reading Library Usability

Fire destroys librarian's work. – “A librarian who worked for 20 years on a collection of books and journals which was destroyed in Edinburgh's Old Town blaze has spoken of her “despair” at the loss. Olga Franks is employed by the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and has helped collate the department's… Continue reading Fire destroys librarian's work

Net Library – The Sequel. – “In a 30,000-square-foot, sun-flooded office building in Boulder, 63 employees work on leading-edge technology as part of a growing cog in a large corporate wheel.” “It's an exciting place for a technology startup to be — but netLibrary's story is a bit more complicated than that.” “NetLibrary's survived bankruptcy,… Continue reading Net Library – The Sequel

Dreamweaver MX 6.1 update released – In all the excitement of the Contribute and DRK2 Launches, I did not explicitly mention that the bug fix for DMX is in fact avaliable from the MM site. The update fixes a number of bugs. In what I think is utterly counterintuitive though, this update is called the… Continue reading MM site

Jennifer Klyse: “I want to build a service that allows individuals to monitor, on a daily or weekly basis, all official activity of their elected officials in Washington.” Amen. [Scripting News]

Snowstorm Sweeps Up East Coast. Snow and sleet fell on the eastern United States today, slowing the engines of commerce and transportation from the South to New England. By David Stout. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Boston Church Panel Will Allow Archdiocese to Weigh Bankruptcy. In order to deal with the lawsuits it faces over abuse by priests, a finance panel of the Archdiocese of Boston voted to allow the church to file for bankruptcy. By Pam Belluck. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Information Needs Analysis. Lou talks about selecting IA components to fulfill information needs. [ia/ – information architecture news]