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, [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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).