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Study of High School and First Amendment
January 31, 2005Survey Finds First Amendment Is Being Left Behind in U.S. High Schools. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Jan. 31, 2005. A new study, The Future of the First Amendment, of high school student, teachers, and administrators shows a shocking lack of understanding of the First Amendment by high school students. Among the findings: [...]
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State of blogging
January 31, 2005Pew Internet & American Life Project: Blogosphere This is a continuation of the previous post on the Pew Internet report, this one on the state of blogging. I’m surprised by the low rss use only because the bloggers that I know are all agog on rss. Read on… 8 million American adults say they have [...]
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Pew Internet & American Life Project
January 29, 2005DANGLING CONVERSATION Rock & Rap Confidential. No. 209, January 2005. This is a very nice short item in a great little newsletter. The article is about the Pew Internet & American Life Project study, Artists, Musicians, and the Internet, of 2,755 artists. The study shows that musicians are embracing the Internet and do not share [...]
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FCC abandons media consolidation rules
January 28, 2005Business > White House Drops Effort to Relax Media Ownership Rules” h ref=”http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/business/27cnd-media.html?ex=1264568400&en=b0f560bbece8fb57&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>White House Drops Effort to Relax Media Ownership Rules This is great news. However, there’s a cloud in this silver lining (see quote below). The FCC didn’t want the SC to take the case because they want to keep hammering away at first [...]
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Chamber of Commerce: Scientific Experts?
January 28, 2005OMB Watch – Industry Challenge Prompts Removal of EPA Database OMB Watch reports that “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed one database from its public website and slightly altered another due to a Data Quality Act (DQA) challenge submitted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.” The Chamber claims some of the data are erroneous, [...]
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Video of Discussion of THE PATRIOT ACT
January 27, 2005PRIVACY, INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND THE PATRIOT ACT: What Does It All Mean? (streaming Quicktime format) Speaking on the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act: Judith F. Krug, Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom; Karen G. Schneider, Chair of the California Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and a member of the ALA Council and Director of [...]
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Protecting Traditional Knowledge from Corporate Piracy
January 26, 2005India struggles to document its biodiversity. by CHANDRIKA MAGO. The Times of India. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2005. In the United States, it is the entertainment industries (RIAA, MPAA, etc.) that have latched on to the term “piracy” for what they describe as “theft” of their “intellectual property.” But in third world countries, piracy is a [...]
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Treaty of Tripoli
January 21, 2005This is the initial entry for a new category called “Quotes”. From time to time, we come across pertinent/thought-provoking/weird quotes, so this category is more of a parking spot for us until we can get them into Jim’s great little quotes database, “A Commonplace Book”. If any readers find any of them interesting, then so [...]
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Powell to step down as FCC chair
January 21, 2005Business > Powell Is Stepping Down as Chairman of F.C.C.” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/business/21cnd-powell.html?ex=1264050000&en=704d891842c25da8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>Powell Is Stepping Down as Chairman of F.C.C. This just in from the NY Times: Michael Powell is stepping down as FCC Chair in March. The list of replacements includes: another Republican member of the commission, Kevin Martin; Becky Klein, a former head of the [...]
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Science magazine now has RSS
January 14, 2005Science Online RSS Feeds Science now has separate feeds for Table of contents, current issue, News Summaries — The week’s news highlights, from Science Magazine, This Week in Science — Brief summaries of new research papers published in Science. Editors’ Choice — Highlights of the recent literature. NetWatch — Best of the Web in science, [...]
