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The Copyright Cage
July 18, 2003Legal Affairs: May | June 2003. Think you know what is wrong with the Copyright Law? This article by Jonathan Zittrain (Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and a director of its Berkman Center for Internet & Society) goes into the details that you probably didn’t know. (What does the size of [...]
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Government Statistics On the Web
July 17, 2003Finding Governmental Statistical Data on the Web: Three Empirical Studies of the FedStats Topics Page. by Irina Ceaparu and Ben Shneiderman Department of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland College Park Draft: May 13, 2003 This paper summarizes the results of three empirical studies with 15 users in each group of [...]
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Problems with Google
July 17, 2003Digging for Googleholes A really solid examination of the limitations of Google.
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EPA interactive mapping
July 17, 2003EPA – Window to My Environment “A powerful new web-based tool that provides a wide range of federal, state, and local information about environmental conditions and features in an area of your choice. This application is provided by U.S. EPA in partnership with federal, state and local government and other organizations.” # Interactive Map – [...]
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Doubts about electronic voting
July 17, 2003Safeguarding the Vote By Doug Pibel. It’s extremely worrisome that election officials will accept a 10% error rate. “Touch-screen voting machines are vulnerable to both error and “downright sabotage,” computer-science and computer-security experts told Mr. Pibel. He says such voting machines have produced many “glitches, miscounts, odd results, and other problems.” In response, some election [...]
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NISO: Metadata demystified
July 17, 2003Here’s a new publication from NISO called, “Metadata Demystified: A Guide for Publishers”. Written by Amy Brand, Frank Daly, and Barbara Meyers, this online book does a good, succinct job at defining what metadata is–and ISN’T–as well as describing metadata standards in the publishing industry.
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Librarians vs globalization
July 16, 2003Librarians plan Montreal convergence against WTO & GAT. Information about how the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) will adversely affect libraries. Thanks to LISnews.com for the link.
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The Protections Unique to Print
July 15, 2003Library Journal Editorial John N. Berry III, Editor-in-Chief — 3/1/2003 Consider the problems of electronic and digital communication. If a government, corporation, or enemy wants to suppress communication, all it has to do is pull the plug. The “system” goes down unintentionally often enough. When governments and virus hackers or spooks and spin doctors put [...]
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PDF good for print, not online presentation
July 14, 2003PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption (Alertbox)