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The Pool: collaborative online environment
December 16, 2003Copyright Doesn’t Cover This Site By Michelle Delio. Wired News Dec. 16, 2003. This article describes the University of Maine’s Still Water new media lab project, “the Pool,” a collaborative online environment for creating and sharing images, music, videos, programming code and texts. “We are training revolutionaries — not by indoctrinating them with dogma but [...]
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God considers smiting pirates
December 15, 2003BBspot – God Considers Smiting Bible Pirates. Just too funny NOT to post!
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The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
December 14, 2003Fear of Book Assasination Haunts Bibliophile book review by AndrŽ Bernard in The New York Observer 12/15/03, page 12, of the book A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, by Nicholas A. Basbanes. HarperCollins, 444 pages, $29.95. Mr. Basbanes … fixes his eye … on the killing fields of cultural [...]
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How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power
December 13, 2003MSNBC – A Net of Control This brief Newsweek / MSNBC “special report” looks at how the technology that the DRM and private sector folks want (including digital certificatesÓ that identify who you are) could do away with anonymity, and facilitate censorship and surveillance.
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Myth of doomed data
December 11, 2003Simson Garfinkel has just published an article called The Myth of Doomed Data in Technology Review (login required, but free). In it, he attempts to debunk what he calls the “myth of doomed data”. He cites the concept of the “Digital Lock Box” being touted by David Stork, chief scientist at Ricoh Innovations. Stork says [...]
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Librarians
December 11, 2003Mary Ellen Bates discusses personality types of librarians and how that affects our service in her “InfoPro” column in EContent. “Are your clients data-intolerant?” EContent, Dec 2003 v26 i12 p59(1). The article is not on the EContent web site yet, but is available through subscription services Expanded Academic ASAP here She notes that “almost half [...]
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Questions about Voting Machines
December 11, 2003Robert X. Cringely’s “The Pulpit” column over at PBS this week(No Confidence Vote: Why the Current Touch Screen Voting Fiasco Was Pretty Much Inevitable, December 4, 2003) raises a lot of questions about eVoting and the Diebold machines in particular. Cringely is in full rant mode here, but not without reason since the integretity of [...]
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RSS from library catalogs
December 9, 2003The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has a New Acquisitions List that includes an RSS feed. Very cool! [Thanks Shifted Librarian]
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Intl child labor legislative database
December 9, 2003The U. of Iowa Center for Human Rights has recently created their Child Labor legislative datatabase. The database is a collection of child labor-specific text of laws from nations around the world. Currently, there are laws from 10 countries (Cambodia, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Mexico, Philippines, S. Africa, Tanzania, UK and US) with plans for 25 [...]
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WSIS Principles and Action Plan
December 7, 2003Late Saturday, negotiators at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) reached agreement on two draft texts — a declaration of principles and an action plan — to be put to their governments in Geneva. Reuters Story