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Why the FCC Will Get Media Ownership Wrong Again
January 29, 2007Why the FCC Will Get Media Ownership Wrong Again, And What They Should Do to Get it Right, by Mark Lloyd, Center for American Progress, January 26, 2007. Whatever happened to the FCC’s obligation to consider the public interest? Well, that depends on what the meaning of the public interest is. As long as the [...]
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Digital Fingerprints
January 29, 2007There is a fascinating article in Science News about how scientists are investigating ways to identify individuals based on the rhythm of their keystrokes when they type and their individual patterns of using a mouse. This research goes beyond, but is complemented by, research in text analysis that can sometimes identify authorship of a piece [...]
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FTA can be worse than IMF for South Koreans
January 25, 2007I have been trying to find out what happened with the 6th Korea/US FTA negotiation which just ended. However, there is little coverage in the western media except one tiny article (With New Urgency, U.S. and South Korea seek Free Trade Deal) from the NY times (Jan 16, 2007) I found more detailed information through [...]
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South Korea – U.S. FTA Jan 15-19
January 14, 2007The 6th round of the South Korea / U.S. free trade agreement will be held in Shilla Hotel from Jan 15 to Jan 19 in Korea. In the past, there have been mass protests in Korea against unfair Kor/U.S. FTA and a massive protest is expected during this round as well. Last year, the U.S. [...]
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Jean-Noël Jeanneney’s Critique of Google
January 6, 2007David Berman, Archives & Museum Informatics, wrote an article in D Lib magazine (Decemeber 2006) recapping Jean-Noël Jeanneney’s Critique on Google. I think all librarians need to read and think about those 5 critiques that Berman addresses.
