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World Summit on the information society underway
November 16, 2005World 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 [...]
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Network Neutrality and Monopoly Control
November 13, 2005“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” [...]
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digg vs. Slashdot vs. Memeorandum
November 13, 2005Links: 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 [...]
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Word processor Blues [MS Word version]: Do we need word processors anymore?
November 13, 2005ongoing 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 [...]
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The library audiobook problem
November 13, 2005Yo, 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 [...]