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By Stephen Shankland. October 28, 2003.
No-Brainer
by David L. Kirp. The Nation, October 23, 2003.
“The blame game” is what is what the Chronicle of Higher Education calls it:
With the Higher Education Act up for renewal next year, the
White House is expected to join those who blame colleges and
universities for “making higher education unaffordable to
students from low- and middle-income families, as well [...]
Setting the Record Straight: An Analysis of the Justice Department’s PATRIOT Act Website. Center for Democracy and Technology. October 27, 2003.
The PATRIOT Act continues to be controversial. While the administration has vehemently defended its actions under the act and the act itself, it arguments have not been convincing to many including the library community. [...]
An increasingly common thread in the news is the future of the net. The technical political, and regulatory decisions made in the next few years will affect what digital libraries can do and how they can do it. Two recent stories and a couple of background articles are:
The irony of ‘network neutrality’, [...]
Launch of the IFLA/FAIFE World Report 2003
The The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Report 2003 from the Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression has responses from 88 different countries.
The World Report 2003 focuses on libraries and the Internet. It discusses the digital divide, filtering and blocking of information, [...]
[Politech] Microsoft offers . This posting from Tim Bishop to Declan McCullagh’s excellent mailing list Politech includes an excerpt from an article in New Scientist
Microsoft offers ’self destructing’ documents by Will Knight. 21 October 03.
Bishop comments:
“While I suspect that people will quickly figure out how to break this first
generation DRM with the equivalent [...]
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beSpacific: New Survey Highlights Lack of Gov’t Website Accessibility
This posting on beSpacific includes links to a report from the
Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University
that reviewed more than 1,600 local, state and federal websites. Among the findings are that more than 100 million Americans are not online and that less than half of federal [...]
Wired News: The Great Library of Amazonia
By Gary Wolf. Oct. 23, 2003;
This story will appear in Wired magazine’s upcoming December issue, 11.12.
Over the past spring and summer, the company created an unrivaled digital archive of more than 120,000 books. The goal is to quickly add most of Amazon’s multimillion-title catalog. The entire collection, which [...]
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