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ibiblio
November 16, 2003Wired News: Where Sharing Isn’t a Dirty Word By Michelle Delio. November 15, 2003. Ibiblio is one of the Web’s oldest and largest digital libraries and all of it is completely free to visitors, thanks to backing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and technology companies like Linux distributor Red Hat.
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Best free web sites 2003
November 16, 2003ALA | MARSBestRef2003 Best Free Reference Web Sites 2003. Fifth Annual List by RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of ALA. “This is an annual series initiated under the auspices of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web.”
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World-Information.Org InfoPaper
November 16, 2003World-Information.Org World-Information.Org is preparing a newspaper that will be distributed at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva in December 2003. The aim of the infopaper is to alert the delegates and the participating public that current and future regulations and practices concerning intellectual property are among the most fundamental issues shaping [...]
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Lecture: The Technology of Copyright: Digital Rights Management
November 16, 2003Karen Coyle: Luminary Lectures @ Your Library. Karen, until recently at the California Digital Library, will deliver what will surely be a thought-provoking lecture at the Library of Congress on Wednesday, November 19th from 10:00am -12:00 noon. The video of the live lecture will available from http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/coyle.html. Karen has over two decades of experience in [...]
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RSS feeds from ABC News
November 10, 2003ABC News” href=”http://rss.lockergnome.com/archives/feeds/007854.phtml”>ABC News. ABC News now has 23 RSS news feeds.
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Plan for UN to manage internet ‘will be shelved’
November 10, 2003FT.com / World / Middle East & Africa By Frances Williams in Geneva. Financial Times November 10, 2003. Another story about ICANN, the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and control of the Internet. An attempt by developing countries to put management of the internet under United Nations auspices is likely to be [...]
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ICANN: Steady as She Goes
November 10, 2003ICANN: Steady as She Goes by David McGuire. Washington Post Monday, November 10, 2003. ICANN is as close to a governing body for The Internet as we have. It has, according to one critic “vanquished any vestige of democracy.” This story is a wrap up of what ICANN has been up to this year.
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Microsoft’s “Longhorn”: goodbye open web, hello Windows-only applications?
November 10, 2003Microsoft: Back to its old ways? By Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com November 6, 2003. Microsoft is developing its next generation operating system, “Longhorn,” and with it, according to this article, are changes that would result in “increased lock-in to Windows.” Microsoft’s wants to offer richer functionality but is doing so by turning “more browser applications [...]
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Comment on the Broadcast Flag
November 10, 2003FCC Deserves a Digital Thanks for Nothing By Rob Pegoraro Washington Post Sunday, November 9, 2003; Page F07. Want a quick overview of the FCC decision on “the broadcast flag”? This short article explains what it will mean to consumers — and that includes libraries. Among other things, “You won’t be able to make a [...]
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Insecurity through Monoculture
November 7, 2003Report: Microsoft dominance poses security risk | CNET News.com September 24, 2003, 4:36 AM PDT By Robert Lemos. The report from the Computer and Communications Industry Association argues that the reliance on a single technology such as the Windows operating system for such an overwhelming majority of computer systems threatens the security of the U.S. [...]