Information Roundup – 2 August 2009

Here are some recent links from the domain:

• RT @sectorprivate: FYI Create Job Applicant Screening Policies Up Front to Minimize Risk http://bit.ly/I8Srq Thanks Greg! Been in a hole!
• RT @slaw_dot_ca: SCC decision in R. v. Grant: Do the ends justify the means? http://bit.ly/nJWBb [Timely and good post on important case!]
• Law student disciplined for Facebook posting and then some… First Amendment arguments fail: http://bit.ly/2DwRwO By Bowtielaw.
• Alberta student appeal case noted by ablawg.ca: http://bit.ly/1ZxkMX
• Vexatious and irresponsible questions (from BBC’s Open Secrets blog): http://bit.ly/yfhnl [Like the term “meta-request.”]
• RT @altonassociates Judge orders B.C. Premier to turn over e-mail; may be linked to the 2003 sale of B.C. Rail: http://bit.ly/3uMdAB
• Record-keeping weaknesses limit accountability (Australia and FOI): http://bit.ly/venjY [Not endorsing, but noting w interest. Thx. Peter!]
• Couple of significant prosecutorial independence decisions from BCCA last week: http://bit.ly/V9HQu and http://bit.ly/zsKQK
• RT @toronto_lawyer: Criminal record: The stain that won’t go away http://bit.ly/Vc8zq
• RT @slaw_dot_ca Eady J, Paparazzi and Privacy >> Slaw http://bit.ly/KQszm
• RT @HicksMorley: Fair procedure and managing students at risk – http://tinyurl.com/ln255t
• Calls to re-investigate Virginia Tech shootings linked to mismanaged medical records: http://bit.ly/1kYrr4

Wednesday will be the second anniversary of the day I started this blog. In two years I’ve made 374 posts. I’ll keep the total visit stat private, but will tell you that this is not a high traffic blog, something I attribute to the technical nature of the content that I’m wedded to. All About Information’s highest traffic day was 283 unique visitors on May 13th of this year, where a link from Michael Geist on the Cole case gave me a good spike.

I’ve been torturing myself over this decision for the last couple of weeks, but I’ve decided to set the blog to terminate (at least as you know it) at the end of February 2010. I’m having great fun blogging still, but am a believer in forced change. If I keep going indefinitely I’m bound to get bored (or boring), so need to make a commitment to shake things up. Maybe I’ll feed this content into a text? Or keep blogging on information management and privacy in a new format? Maybe I’ll use different social media to stay engaged online and finally figure out how to use LinkedIn? I don’t really know, but if you have any ideas please make a suggestion!

One thing I’ll certainly do is try and rediscover my athletic self. I’ve picked a February end date because March is really the start of the paddling season here, with some beautiful water. No commitments yet, but if things go as planned I’ll do some good crossings later in the year.

Hope you’ve enjoyed and keep coming back for the next half year!

Dan