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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #183
This week's episode looks at the aftermath of the SOPA battle and the take-down of MegaUpload while looking at some consequences thereupon for the knowledge ecology. A draft resolution for any upcoming...
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Bombing Bridges
CNET's Greg Sandoval reported last year that top Internet Service Providers came to an agreement with the RIAA and MPAA to engage in copyright enforcement. Ryan Whitwam noted at ExtremeTech that the...
View ArticleWhat If You Have A Digital Divide And Nobody Cared?
CNN's online presence is carrying a piece by Amy Gahran that comments on a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project report that notes a lack of interest in the Internet itself by that 20% of the...
View ArticleHow is Google different from traditional Library OPACs & databases?
How is Google different from traditional Library OPACs & databases? In short, the further away your library search is from these characteristics , the more difficult your users will find the search...
View ArticleTroves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
When scientists publish their research, they also make the underlying data available so the results can be verified by other scientists.At least that is how the system is supposed to work. But lately...
View ArticleProposed New York State Ban On Anonymous Posts
CNET's Greg Sandoval brings word of a bill in the New York State legislature prohibiting anonymous communications online. This proposal follows on from another New York State proposal discussed by...
View ArticleBringing "Style" to Academic Writing: Chronicle article
Peer-reviewed library and information science journals are certainly no exception to the scourge of "academese" - a dialect known for its floridness, pedantry, and obfuscatory properties. Rachel Toor,...
View ArticleOn the Media - Data
The radio program "On the Media" did an entire episode on "Data" You can download the podcast here.
View ArticleLibrary World Records is back online
The website for Library World Records, the Guinness Book of World Records for libraries and books is now back online.Library World Records is fascinating book first published in 2004 after research...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #216
This week's episode mysteriously dispenses with Profile America so that attention can be paid to the matter of Diplomats Dancing in Dubai in December...which is to say, we talk about some ramifications...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #223
This week's program has not one but two features from the United States Department of Agriculture that may prove useful to reference librarians and selectors. In the essay we talk about the World...
View ArticleDec. 10, 1944: Web Visionary Passes Into Obscurity
Wired's This Day in Tech Blog remembers Paul Otlet and his dream of organizing the world's information. Sound familiar?"Some historians see in Otlet’s work a prototype of the World Wide Web and the...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #227
The tag line for this week's episode: "Information As Weapon"We've got a bit of an essay talking about that in connection with an awful case in Ohio. Information might want to be free, but couldn't it...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #228
This week's program deals with Wikipedia hoaxing, an Internet icon, and a miscellany of brief items.Related links:The Daily Mail: The war that never was: Most elaborate Wikipedia hoax ever as 4,500...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #229
This week's episode looks around the LISHost galaxy while looking at some ambiguous information in a speculative manner.Related links:LISWire: Worch Memorial Public Library Joins COOL and Goes Live on...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #247
This week's program brings another retransmission from the Voice of America where the continuing cyber-snooping situation is discussed. Stephen tells a tale of how communications metadata can be used...
View ArticleEver Wonder How Third-Party E-mail Providers Work?
A brief discussion is posted about Schnail Mail and how it might not be such a good thing yet how it relates to the deal presented by GMail.(h/t Glyn Moody)
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #249
This special edition deals with the Groklaw shutdown announced on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Groklaw is hosted at ibiblio similarly to LISNews and librarian.net. History of the growth of the National...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #250
And we're back even though we're now illegal in Vietnam! Then again, so is the rest of LISNews as we discuss in the program. The hiatus is over and normal programming resumes notwithstanding September...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #262
Narrowly avoiding discussing the Orland Park Public Library situation, this week's episode presents a news miscellany.Related links:Coyle's InFormation: It's FAIR!The Register: Android mobes outsell...
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