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Word Pirates
September 19, 2003Word Pirates. Marketers, politicians and other short-sighted, self-interested, sticky-fingered people have been stealing our words. Not only do they take them for commercial purposes, but they misuse them entirely. They’re Word Pirates and we’re going to take back what’s rightfully ours. And, if you like the idea, you may enjoy The interview, “Choosing your weapons [...]
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The Hyperlinked Organization
September 19, 2003CAITE: Library without walls?. Comments about and excerpts from the book The Hyperlinked Organization by David Weinberger. See also, the newsletter and the blog! A couple of other fun things in my old bookmarks include The Paradox of the Best Network by David Isenberg and David Weinberger, and World of Ends What the Internet Is [...]
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We were surprised to learn that the Justice Department has never utilized Section 215…
September 19, 2003ALA | ALA renews call for legislative amendments to Patriot Act. In wake of declassified report, ALA renews call for legislative amendments to PATRIOT Act. Details previous statements from the Justice Department that said the Act had been used.
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NYTimes coverage of Ashcroft’s Speech
September 19, 2003Ashcroft Mocks Librarians and Others Who Oppose Parts of Counterterrorism Law Tom Clancy, New York Times Sept. 15, 2003. (Paper edition: September 16, 2003, Tuesday, Late Edition – Final, Section A; Page 23; Column 2.) In an unusually pointed attack as part of his latest speech in defense of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism initiatives, Mr. [...]
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Senate tells the FCC ‘no’
September 19, 2003This is the latest in the fight against media consolidation. Senate tells the FCC ‘no’ Posted 09/17/03 on the AP Wire. “The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday to roll back new media ownership rules that have brought heavy criticism from a broad range of advocacy groups, shifting the fight to the House where Republican leaders [...]
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CPSR’s 2003 Norbert Wiener Award to Mitch Kapor
September 18, 2003CRSR Press Release. Since 1987, the organization Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility has recognized outstanding contributions for social responsibility in computing technology with the Norbert Wiener award. Wiener (1894-1964), who, in addition to a long and active scientific career that brought the word “cybernetics” into the language and laid the foundation for many aspects of [...]
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The Progress Of Science And Useful Arts
September 18, 2003The Free Expression Policy Project This report, “The Progress Of Science And Useful Arts: Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom” is a “Public Policy Report” from the Free Expression Policy Project. It was revised and updated Fall 2003. It examines the “‘difficult balance’ between rewarding creativity through the copyright system and ‘society’s competing interest in [...]
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More on World Summit on the Information Society
September 18, 2003CNN.com – Who will control the Internet? This story from Reuters (September 16, 2003) reports on some of the important issues being addressed by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). A fight over the role of governments in managing the Internet is brewing as policymakers prepare for a U.N.-backed summit on the network’s [...]
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Reliability of Health Information on the Web Questioned in New Study
September 18, 2003Online health sites a worldwide worry – smh.com.au by Jenny Sinclair, The Sydney Morning Herald September 16, 2003. A study of top 100 sites returned on the Yahoo! search engine in the categories of breast cancer, diabetes and depression found that “only a minority conformed to an international standard on how information should be given.”
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Guide to the Patriot Act
September 18, 2003A Guide to the Patriot Act, – Should you be scared of the Patriot Act? By Dahlia Lithwick and Julia Turner. A four-part series about the various troubling sections of the USA PATRIOT Act.