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RSS4Lib: Innovative ways libraries use RSS

From the Ginn Library at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University comes this blog on
“Innovative ways libraries use RSS.”

This seems to todays zeitgeist.

The Education Podcast Network

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

And, if you have iTunes, go to

podcasts -> education -> higher education

to see lots of (mostly free) higher ed. podcasts!

ResearchChannel

ResearchChannel is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by a consortium of leading research universities, institutions and corporate research centers dedicated to creating a widely accessible voice for research through video and Internet channels.

In addition to health and medical sciences, computer science and engineering, more than 30% of the content is in arts, humanities, and social sciences.
ResearchChannel has a video library of over 1300 full-length programs available for
webcast and searchable on-demand.

University Channel

The University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format.

Already available: The Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement, The Pope and the Future of Religion and Politics, How Unequal Can America Get Before We Snap? …and much more!

CNET: In Canada: Cache a page, go to jail?

This is unbelievable! In an effort to get Canada up to speed with the 1996 WIPO copyright treaty (which spawned the extremely flawed DMCA!), the Canadian Parliament has placed on their docket a bill (C-60) that could make it illegal for search engines to cache Web pages, opening the door to frivolous lawsuits and damaging the public’s (or at least internet users’!) access to information.

This is another example of terrible legislation written by the industry that has the most to gain from a draconian copyright law — i.e., record labels and movie studios.

[Thanks to Roy Tennant and Current Cites!]

Information and Communication Technologies and the Effects of Globalization: Twenty-First Century “Digital Slavery” for Developing Countries–Myth or Reality? by L. A. Ogunsola
Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile - Ife, Nigeria.

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to examine the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) revolution and the concept of globalization as they effect developing countries. Globalization as one of the reasons for possible widening of the gap between the poor and the rich nations was examined and the emerging concept of “digital slavery” was carefully evaluated. The wide gap in availability and use of ICTs across the world and the influences ICTs exert on globalization at the expense of developing countries were carefully examined and suggestions and necessary policies were offered for developing countries to leap-frog the industrialization stage and transform their economies into high value-added information economies that can compete with the advanced countries on the global market. This is why it is important for Africa, in general, and Nigeria, in particular, to be aware of the implications, prepare to avoid the most telling consequences and prepare to meet its challenges.

Tactical Technology Collective, based in Amsterdam, is to advance the use of new technologies as a tactical tool for civil-society in developing and transition countries.

One small dial-up for man. ANDRƒS MARTINEZ. L.A. Times, July 21, 2005.

Enjoy this little stop-and-think-about-that-for-a-moment article! A subscription is required, but you can use BugMeNot to get a usable, random user name and password.

Do you remember your first time? I can picture mine vividly, as if it were yesterday.

I was sitting at my desk in my study in Pittsburgh, having carefully followed all the instructions. It felt like a scene out of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” I didn’t really know if we were going to make contact. I heard the chirpy dialing sounds, the beeps and then that melodious, sustained sound of static.

“I think we’re on, honey,” I yelled at my wife, who was in the other room. We were indeed online, at last, on what was then called the information superhighway.

Center for Democracy and Technology promotes democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy etc.

YAHOO INC. will be partnerning with the University of California at Berkeley to run a technology-research lab. Students and faculty members will use the Internet giant’s resources to study how people use the Web and to develop new features for the company. Monday, July 18, 2005, Chronicle of Higer Education More … (Subscription required).