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Qik Stream
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NYPD infiltrate protests
December 22, 2005Police Infiltrate Protests, Videotapes Show By JIM DWYER Published: December 22, 2005 Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war, bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in an accident, a [...]
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Bloggers’ favorite books 2005
December 20, 2005Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2005 Here’s a nice little list of books that bloggers were reading this year just in case you’re in need of last second gifts for the laz staff!
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Radical militant librarians kick around FBI!
December 12, 2005At F.B.I., Frustration Over Limits on an Antiterror Law This article is intriguing, but only tells about half the story. While FBI agents decry “radical militant librarians” perhaps they should be looking at what exactly they are doing. Perhaps agents are not given permission to apply USAPA so broadly because — rather than it being [...]
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Yahoo.licio.us?
December 11, 2005Tag It: Acqusition, Yahoo Acquires del.icio.us Yahoo.licio.us? That’s right, Yahoo has acquired del.icio.us the social bookmarking, social software web service for storing and sharing web bookmarks.
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Happy 20th birthday National Security Archive
December 9, 2005National Security Archive 20th Anniversary: Celebrating 20 Years of Keeping Government Honest The National Security Archive celebrates its 20th anniversary today with a special event at George Washington University, headlined by Bill Moyers, with Seymour M. Hersh, Tina Rosenberg, Scott Armstrong, Geneva Overholser, Walter B. Slocombe, Morton H. Halperin and Sherry Jones. You can download [...]
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Blog of the Month
December 9, 2005For this month’s BOTM we feature another blog that some of us maintain: FreeGovInfo. We’ve never featured it here and, since we often post things there that we used to post here, we thought it important to mention it! Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various [...]
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What can libraries learn from the web?
December 5, 2005Learning from THE WEB, by Adam Bosworth, ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 8 – October 2005. Bosworth, who has worked for Microsoft, BEA, and now Google draws interesting conclusions from how people use the web and how and why the web works. Although he doesn’t address libraries directly, he does compare and contrast the way [...]
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Wireless Cities Update
December 5, 2005Cities Explore Wireless Possibilities, by Chloe Albanesius, National Journal’s Technology Daily [subscription required] Issue Of The Week: Monday, December 05, 2005. In the wake of Philadelphia’s decision to build its own wireless network, cities large and small have explored similar projects to boost competition and tourism.
