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How Congress and FCC can destroy the Internet
April 5, 2004Tech heavyweights explain how to destroy the Internet By Thomas C Greene, The Register April 2004 23:10. “A group of tech celebs gathered on Capitol Hill this week to brief Congressional aides on how Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can, and probably will, make a complete mess of the Internet in about a [...]
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National Security vs. Academic Freedom Update
April 5, 2004IEEE SCORES FIRST AMENDMENT VICTORY FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING IEEE scored a victory for freedom of the press and the scholarly publishing community with the ruling it received Friday from the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The ruling exempts peer review, editing and publication of scholarly manuscripts submitted to IEEE by [...]
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The Decline of BroadcastersÕ Public Interest Obligations
April 5, 2004The very useful BENTON’S COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES reports in its April 5, 2004 issue that the New America Foundation has a new publication: The Decline of BroadcastersÕ Public Interest Obligations New America Foundation, Spectrum Policy Program, Policy Backgrounder, March 29, 2004. Benton describes the publication this way: The indecency debate and the transition to digital television [...]
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Google does not have a sense of humor
April 2, 2004Guardian Unlimited | Feedback | The joke’s on us The Guardian removed its April Fool’s Day hoax from its website. “It’s gone. Removed. Try a litter bin instead – or your local library.” Why? Among other reasons, Google doesn’t have a sense of humour. Type “Peter Mandelson” into the Google News search and our spoof [...]
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RSS feeds of library blogs
April 2, 2004blogwithoutalibrary.net. These three feeds list new library blogs. One each for public, academic, and special libraries.
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Find ‘Congressional Research Service’ Reports
April 2, 2004This search looks into every* CRS report on the Web and only into CRS reports. Peter Suber reports that “Steve Stoft has rigged up a custom Google search to search “just about every CRS report available on the web”. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research arm of the US Congress. With [...]
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Lessig and Doctorow on free e-books
April 1, 2004Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford and author of the new book Free Culture, is “guest blogger” at Glenn Reynolds’ Slate Blog. Lessig is making his book available free online under Creative Commons license, and it is widely available. In his March 30, 2004 entry, “Amazon helps free culture,” Lessig writes about this. The [...]