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Qik Stream
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Lessig on WIPO, USPTO, MS, Open-Source, BBC
September 21, 2003FT.com Home UK “The BBC’s lessons for America” By Lawrence Lessig. Financial Times, September 8 2003. “The US administration remains captured by a simplistic and fundamentally misguided idea: that if some control is good, then more control must be better. That idea is simply wrong.”
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OCLC Sues Hotel over use of Dewey Decimal system
September 21, 2003Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Dewey Decimal Owner Sues ‘Library’ Hotel. AP, Guardian, September 21, 2003. Alas, not a joke. OCLC owns the Dewey Decimal system and it is suing a hotel in Manhattan for trademark infringement because each floor is dedicated to one of Dewey’s 10 categories.
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Libraries bigger than Amazon and other Facinating Statistics
September 20, 2003The Shifted Librarian: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Examples: “U.S. public library cardholders outnumber Amazon customers by almost 5 to 1…. Each day, U.S. libraries circulate nearly 4 times more items than Amazon handles.” “U.S. libraries circulate 1,947,600,000 items a year”
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Banned Books Week
September 20, 2003commons-blog: Contemplating Banned Books and Scanned Books Pointers and excerpts here to “a couple of fabulous posts on librarianship that are especially pertinent given that we are just coming out of a week of battle with John Ashcroft (with more to come, no doubt) and just heading into Banned Books Week (September 21 to 27).”
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An Open Source Word Processing Bibliography Manager
September 20, 2003OpenOffice.org Bibliographic Project Open Office, the successor to “StarOffice,” is an open source alternative to MS Office. It is intended as an office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. The “Bibliographic” project intends to provide a [...]
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A search as an RSS feed
September 20, 2003RollingStone.com Artist Search RSS isn’t just about blogs. RSS feeds can be created from almost any structured information. An excellent use of RSS is to turn the results of a search of a site into RSS. Rolling Stone magazine has done just that with its artist search which resturns an RSS feed as a result. [...]
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The Future of Weblogging
September 20, 2003Spy: Writing: Weblogging (Spiked) A draft of an article to appear next week. “Nico Macdonald puts Weblogging in the context of the history of online publishing, explaining its novelty and value, and indicating where it needs to innovate. He concludes with a proposal encouraging publishers to properly embrace the Weblogging model.”
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More Government Secrecy
September 20, 2003Academics sidelined in battle against computer worms by Declan Butler, Nature 425, 228 (18 September 2003); doi:10.1038/425228b. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has decided to classify a major research programme aimed at building defences against computer worms. The move has angered scientists who argue that both universities and the military would benefit [...]
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GAO’s report on Ashcroft FOIA policy
September 19, 2003The Center for Democracy & Technology reported today that “GAO Finds Ashcroft FOIA Policy Has Impact on Fewer Agencies than Expected”. Seems that agencies are aware of Ashcroft’s 2001 memo to agencies requiring a change in freedom of information standards, but *only* 31% have decreased their release of information.
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Blog trend tracker
September 19, 2003Waypath Buzz Maker Interesting… Connections, trends. This engine returnes a graph that shows you word frequency of each term on blogs over the past 10 weeks. You can enter up to five topics and build a “Buzz-o-meter graph,” then click on the graph to visit the blogs that included the words you searched for.
