Feds plan 'town hall' meetings on online ad tech
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Blog: The move comes in response to privacy gripes from advocacy groups about the practices companies like Microsoft use to target ads to consumers.
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New pay-per-call paid-search engine model has potential for luring new ad business.
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A neighbourhood watch for the digital age, utilising the power of social networking is proposed.
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More than 1,800 summer interns at federal agencies, congressional offices and think tanks have registered to attend a "town hall" meeting tonight, where a nonprofit group will announce plans to create a Roosevelt Scholars program to attract graduate students to the federal government.
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European lawmakers plan to take the unusual step of pressing antitrust regulators next month to look at privacy concerns raised by Google Inc.'s intended takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick.
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So far talks between the two revolve around technology and potential business models such as advertising-sponsored services, one of the sources said.
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Plans are under way for a scheme aimed at encouraging people to inform on others who have a gun illegally.
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Looks to commercial surveillance tools
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By JAKE COYLE  With generators for entering your own info into everything from church signs to Stephen Colbert's "On Notice" board, numerous Web sites are offering you a chance to put your name in lights.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is meeting this week to address critical issues like new generic top level domains, internationalized domain names, and other subjects.
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The Defense Intelligence Agency is becoming a government trend-setter in using Web 2.0 tools for its analysts, who have turned to wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and enterprise "mashups" to collaborate when sifting through data.
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Measures to curb the use of "spyware" -- the computer programs that surreptitiously track people's online movements -- are steamrolling their way through Congress and a combined proposal could reach the President's desk before lawmakers break for the November election.
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Activists are using the Internet to arrange housing for out-of-towners during the Republican National Convention in NYC, organize a mass-flash of underwear emblazoned with anti-Bush messages and tell protesters what to say if they're arrested ("I am going to remain silent. I would like to speak with a lawyer.").
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With political fund raising, campaign advertising and organizing taking place in full swing over the Internet, it may just be a matter of time before the Federal Election Commission joins the action.
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With the campaign jabber of the 2008 elections already getting loud, an organization that promotes transparency in politics hopes one slice of the Web can promote reasonable, intelligent debate about issues.
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A new series of events will allow their users to submit questions to presidential candidates in real time during Web and TV  broadcasts.
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Startups help customize media preferences for getting the information you actually want online.