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Why does govt need so many Public affairs officers?
February 26, 2005Newsday: Cadre grows to rein in message Between September 2000 and September 2004, the number of public affairs officials rose 9 percent, from 4,327 to 4,703, in executive-branch agencies, according to U.S. Office of Personnel Management statistics. Meanwhile, the federal work force grew 6 percent. The cost of public affairs staffing has grown by more [...]
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Grey Lit journal set to begin spring 2005
February 23, 2005Welcome to GreyNet, Your Grey Literature Network Service What’s grey literature? It’s “Information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commerical publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity.” THE GREY JOURNAL ~ FLAGSHIP FOR THE GREY LITERATURE COMMUNITY The first issue of [...]
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Google takes on…
February 18, 2005Opinion Column- Googlepedia: The End is Near. By John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine (02.14.05) Google has absorbed DejaNews and Blogger.com and is digitizing whole libraries of books, and is making deals with publishers. What’s next? “Google Inc. has made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects.” Dvorak reports on the [...]
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The Epistemological Lifeboat
February 18, 2005Lifeboat Birger Hj¿rland & Jeppe Nicolaisen (eds.) This is an introduction or overview of philosopy from the Library and Information Science (LIS) point of view. The editors explain that this is important because “LIS itself is influenced by different views of knowledge” and one needs to be able to recognize those different views. Further, they [...]
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Hear Cliff Lynch at 2005 LITA forum
February 17, 2005ALA | LITA 2004 Closing General Session MP3s Clifford Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, gave the closing address to the 2004 LITA forum in St. Louis. If you haven’t heard Cliff speak before, you’re in for a treat. He talked about “preservation, personalization, education delivery and learning management systems, and consumer [...]
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Govt open code collaborative
February 17, 2005“Government Technology”:Government moves into the open Here’s an idea who’s time has come. As local, state and federal govts are increasingly defunded, they will need to find ways to provide the services they provide in more collaborative, open-source ways. Enter the Government Open Code Collaborative Repository. It’s a great way to share expertise and software [...]
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Boynton on Copyright
February 9, 2005Righting Copyright: Fair Use and “Digital Environmentalism” by Robert S. Boynton, Bookforum (February/March 2005) Boynton is director of New York University’s magazine journalism program. Recent stirrings in legal theory may give some comfort to the activist wing of digital environmentalism. Taking for granted the fact that the problem is less the letter of intellectual property [...]
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Dan Gillmor is BOTM for February 2005
February 7, 2005Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc. Dan Gillmor’s weblog is devoted to the discussion of the issues facing grassroots journalism as it grows into an important force in society. Until 2004, he was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, where he wrote about issues of technology and media.
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Podcasting all over the place!
February 4, 2005NPR : ‘PodCasting’ to Music, Talk Fans Online NPR has mentioned podcasting two days in a row so I guess it’s hit the mainstream. What should libraries be doing about it? Will there soon be ipod collections accessible via library catalogs?! Already some academics are getting into it. Alan Filreis, a professor of English at [...]
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See Tom Ridge Hide Behind the Flag
February 2, 2005This is so odd, I just don’t know what to think about it. Perhaps someone can explain it to me? Watch closely as you load this pdf file http://www.adcouncil.org/pdf/homeland_magazine_flag_13x21.pdf from the AdCouncil and you may see a picture of Tom Ridge behind the picture of the flag. If you don’t see it, try resizing the [...]