In the wake of the Watergate scandal, the US Congress passed the Presidential Records Act (PRA) in 1978. This act changed the legal ownership of official records from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) from private to public and mandated that these records be filed with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Although policies and procedures have been in place for years for preserving and archiving paper and electronic... 

Did President Obama call Kanye West a “jackass”? It would appear that he certainly did, when asked about Sunday night’s incident at MTV’s Video Music Awards in an off-the-record interview  Read More →

Greetings and salutations, music lovers! It’s another Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure. If you’ve been following along so far, you’ll know we’re celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter by offering you some free tunes. We pick 10 tracks, albums or playlists from around the web and offer you either links to the downloads or streams, or embed the streams when possible.  Read More →

Tonight should mark an important moment in U.S.  Read More →

It’s not just you: BlackBerry users are reporting an outage today that’s causing issues accessing email. It would appear the BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) is unresponsive, as BlackBerry users on the Mashable team are unable to reach email.  Read More →

Exactly one month ago, we picked up on a report that said that iTunes 9 would support Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm . However, it was uncertain at the time how iTunes would integrate these popular social media services.  Read More →