• Maybe you should tell your doctor about this site. The American Medical Association’s Web resource center at www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/6206.html offers information about biological and chemical weapons; resources for coping with disaster; and medical journal articles about biological and chemical weapons, bio-terrorism preparedness and diagnosis and treatment of biological weapons.

• The National Emergency Management Association’s Web site (www.nemaweb.org/Trends_in_Terrorism_Preparedness/Index.htm) features information on trends in state terrorism preparedness, including sources of information, key issues, contact information at the state level, and legislative initiative information.

If you live in California, Maine, North Carolina, North Dakota and Pennsylvania: you’ve got a friend. But, Web life isn’t so easy for citizens hoping to access services in New Jersey, South Dakota, West Virginia, Nevada and Tennessee.
So says a newly released report, based on a study conducted by researchers at Indiana University on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers. The study, reported by Newsbytes, found that the states with the best Web sites offered citizens a chance to customize the sites by creating personal profiles and choosing relevant content based on those profiles. The report awarded the highest marks to states that organized online service delivery around events such as vehicle registration — rather than government departments. Yet researchers found that many sites failed to offer even basic contact information.
You can read more, and access the full report, by going to www.washtech.com/news/govtit/14712-1.html.

More Americans did business with a government Web site last year than paid their credit card bills or traded stocks online, according to a study conducted by the Center for e-Service at the University of Maryland and Rockbridge Associates.
About 55 percent of adults with access to the Internet visited a government Web site last year, said the National Technology Readiness Survey. The study was reported in The Washington Post. If you’re interested in learning more, you can access the report at www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ces/National%20Technology%20Readiness% 20Survey.htm

Brunswick County, N. C. has become the first jurisdiction in the state to offer an online database as well as images of not only real estate recordings but also all vital records. The Web address: www.co.brunswick.nc.us/rod8.asp.