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CJR on media consolidation
August 26, 2004Who Owns What The Columbia Journalism Review web site offers a searchable list of media properties, timelines for six major media conglomerates, and links to nearly six years of the Review’s articles about media ownership in its Who Owns What section.
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Library of unwritten books
August 24, 2004library of unwritten books File this under “whimsy”. This library is touring around England and Scotland in 2004/05, interviewing folks about the books that they would write. The collection is evidence of the common desire to write a book and is an ongoing survey of this literary phenomenon. [Thanks Librarian.net]
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What if public libraries had IPOs?
August 23, 2004Library Dust: Give Me Ten of NYPL Preferred Here’s a cogent little essay by Michael McGorty. Although he is slightly facetious about initial public offerings for public libraries, he hits the nail on the head regarding why libraries will continue to be important despite the internet — that is IF we librarians don’t buy into [...]
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Herbert: voter intimidation in FL
August 23, 2004Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Suppress the Vote?” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/16/opinion/16herbert.html?hp”> Bob Herbert: Suppress the Vote? (NY Times, 8/16/04) and Herbert: A chill in Florida (NY Times, 8/23/04) . (Free registration required) Here’s more chicanery from the republican party in Florida, a swing state and state where thousands of mostly black voters were disenfranchised in the 2000 election [...]
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EFF Weighs in on Plan to Improve Public Access to Government Documents
August 22, 2004EFF: EFFector Vol. 17, No. 30, August 19, 2004 Comments by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Environmental Protection Agency plans for a new online system. We propose that the EPA enable bulk data retrieval and use modern technologies such as web services interfaces and RSS feeds. See also, EPA takes portal concept to the next [...]
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Lessig: copyrighting the president
August 22, 2004Copyrighting the President Wired 12(8), August, 2004. Laurence Lessig raises a very interesting point here. Basically, copyright can have a negative affect on political discourse, especially given our 21st century reality of media consolidation and concentration. Read on! The US president owns neither his words nor his image – at least not when he speaks [...]
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Testing of e-voting machines kept secret
August 22, 2004Wired News: E-Vote Machines: Secret Testing The three companies that certify the nation’s voting technologies operate in secrecy and refuse to discuss flaws in the ATM-like machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in November. Despite concerns over whether the touch-screen machines can be trusted, the testing companies won’t say publicly if [...]
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Libraries don’t lead the way. Again.
August 22, 2004Internet Archive Gets DMCA Exemption To Help Archive Vintage Software The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) has received a temporary exemption fromt he Digital Millenium Copyright Act to archive “at-risk software.” There is no mention here of the larger problem of archiving content and content that is tied to software. Seeing the Internet Archive do this reminds [...]
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Chronicle offers RSS feeds
August 22, 2004The Chronicle: RSS Feeds The Chronicle of Higher Education now offers RSS feeds for “Daily News,” “The Wired Campus,” and careers.
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BOTM: Outraged moderates
August 9, 2004Outraged Moderates Why are we highlighting outraged moderates this month? This blog focuses on government documents and other primary sources. What Thad Anderson is doing, besides blogging(!), is distributing government documents via peer-to-peer (p2p) networks through his Download For Democracy campaign. He’s distributing over 600 govt documents in this manner.