World Summit on the Information Society
WSIS is underway in Tunis, Tunisia. The big discussion is over the governance of the internet. Check out the live webcast. I see alot of government officials and Jean-Philippe Courtois, the president of Microsoft International, but there’s nobody on the slate from activist and non-profit organizations interested in open access, [...]
“Network neutrality” is an important concept that librarians should
understand. The issue arises because broadband network service providers
(e.g., cable and telephone companies) have the technical ability to filter,
slow, encumber, and block users’ access to the web, web sites, individual
web pages, particular kinds of services or files. If the FCC mandated
“network neutrality” it could limit [...]
Links: Nov 11, 2005″ href=”http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/11/links_nov_11_2005.html”>O’Reilly Radar > Links: Nov 11, 2005
In his Friday list of interesting links, Tim O’Reilly includes a note about the technology news web site,
digg, which covers some of the same territory as slashdot and
tech.memeorandum.
O’Reilly, commenting on the different way these sites work, says, “There’s an interesting battle looming between collective [...]
ongoing á Word Processing Blues
Tim relates his problems with an old MS Word file and how he solved it with Emacs (an open-source multi-platform text editor [and much more] that has been around since 1976] and CSS.
He concludes:
[A]ssuming you had a Web editor with a good change tracker, why would anyone want a word processor [...]
Yo, Libraries: say No to DRM
The Doc Searls Weblog Saturday, November 12, 2005.
Recently there have been a number of newspaper articles, each exclaiming how a local library is providing audiobooks. Most of the time these articles refer to services offered through NetLibrary.
One article
(Spinning tales
By JENNIFER GISH,
Albany NY TimesUnion, October 31, 2005)
explains that, “NetLibrary launched [...]
Bad Behavior has blocked 311 access attempts in the last 7 days.