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Blogs, Podcasting, and Narrowcasting from Educause
July 13, 2005Educause is offering a free online seminar about narrowcasting: Narrowcasting 101: Using Blogs, Podcasts, and Videoblogs in Higher Education, Date: July 21, 2005, Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT. Registration is required. They have nice pages about podcasting and blogs, too: podcasting blogs
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Blogs and history
July 13, 2005Common-place: Blogging in the Early Republic This is an interesting article by W. Caleb McDaniel, a graduate student in the department of history at The Johns Hopkins University, in this month’s Common Place. McDaniel posits that blogs have their beginnings in the 1750s when innovations in printing gave access to literature to a broader base [...]
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Dying Histories
July 13, 2005NARA is struggling to preserve born digital materials. “NARA is confronting thousands of incompatible ditigal data formats cooked up by the computer industry over the past several decades, not to mention the limited lifespan of electronic storage media themselves. The most famous documents in NARA’s possession–the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of [...]
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The Forum on Privatization and the Public Domain
July 12, 2005The Forum on Privatization and the Public Domain The goals of the Forum are to: Create a public voice on the issues raised by the relentless expansion of what are considered to be patentable products, processes, discoveries, inventions and appropriated goods, or what is commonly referred to as intellectual property… Thanks to Librarian Activist!
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ICANN News: US to continue control of Internet
July 12, 2005Some interesting and important developments related to the Internet have been going on lately, but you won’t see this unless you follow the tech-press or use non-U.S. sources. The big news is that the US government “has said it intends to maintain its role in overseeing how the internet is run” and “European internet registries [...]
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Books Over 200 Pages Considered Harmful To Students
July 11, 2005Bill puts page limit on California textbooks By JIM SANDERS, Sacramento Bee, May 26, 2005. California lawmakers have voted “to ban school districts from purchasing textbooks longer than 200 pages.” Can they be serious? Apparently they are. Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, a Los Angeles Democrat and chair of the Assembly Education Committee, said that schools are [...]
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wireless Internet access is as essential as water
July 11, 2005The Triangle unwired by Fiona Morgan, Independent Weekly. The article describes the Internet access is not a luxury but a public utility and the need of WiFi. It provides various examples of WiFi programs around the country.
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Roe May Stand, So Foes Look to Limit Its Scope
July 11, 2005“In 2003, abortion opponents took a calculated gamble and pushed through the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, a federal law very similar to a state law ruled unconstitutional just three years before. Critics asserted they were defying the court and doomed to fail in any legal challenge.” New York Times (WASHINGTON, July 9) (Register required).
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U.S. Government blacklists Sites On Cuba
July 11, 2005Feds blacklist ‘illegal’ Cuban Web sites By Anne Broache, CNET News.com, July 8, 2005. In a lengthy regulation (“Alphabetical Listing of Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Specially Designated Global Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers“) published in the Federal Register, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, lists web sites [...]
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Stevan Harnad’s new blog
July 11, 2005Open Access Archivangelism Stevan Harnad, the long time evangelist of open access to scholarly literature, has started a new blog, Open Access Archivangelism “Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Research Access” (http://openaccess.eprints.org/). He says, As of this date, I will begin branching my own substantive American Scientist Open Access Forum postings http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/ archives/ American- Scientist- Open- [...]