Archive for November 2011
The Raw Take
2011-11-27 by
This is the raw take from the formation of the slushpile over the week that was:
- 11 GB+ of digital pirate radio recordings | The SWLing Post
- PCWorld Ubuntu Shows DistroWatch Decline as Mint Soars
- Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns - Telegraph
- Why SOPA endangers America's Internet leadership
- Google terminating more products in house cleaning
- Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors: documentary on the net's hidden physical infrastructure « Boing Boing
- Official Google Blog: More spring cleaning out of season
- US public radio turns to BBC World Service for news of police sweep through Occupy Wall Street encampment.
- Shopping madness turns violent on Black Friday - USA - FRANCE 24
- 11 GB+ of digital #pirate radio recordings: swling.com/blog/2011/11/1… #PirateRadio #SWL #Shortwave #Archive
- Mark Steyn: SS Spendaholic sailing into debt abyss The Orange County Register
- Google machine-guns unpopular social products • The Register
- Ubuntu tells dumped CouchDB: It's not you, it's me • The Register
- This Week in Internet Censorship: Opaque Censorship in Turkey, Russia, and Britain | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Cities Pay for Occupations
- 'Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone' | 11alive.com
- Inquiry into public library closures announced
- Libraries centre stage at WIPO
- Bloomberg's Media Plan for Occupy Eviction -- and His Failure
- librarian.net » Blog Archive » Pirating for Dummies – torrenting easy-ish to block, but does it solve any real problem?
- Penguin Restores E-Book Access Amidst Amazon Negotiations | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Prime Minister to send a Bible to every school | National Secular Society
- T2 SDE - The Open System Development Environment
- Wikipedia can be inhospitable to expert contribution | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and relate...
- Publishers Association supports Penguin e-book withdrawal | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and r...
- China overtakes US as world’s biggest smartphone market • The Register
- Penguin letting libraries loan e-books for Amazon’s Kindle through end of year - The Washington Post
- ‘Flash Robs’: Trying to Stop a Meme Gone Wrong | Threat Level | Wired.com
- The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia
- Sweeping net filters trample ISPs' rights, says Euro beak • The Register
- Ofcom: ISPs can cripple the web as much as they please • The Register
- Free software runs Android apps via Windows XP - News - Linux for Devices
- PCWorld Ubuntu Shows DistroWatch Decline as Mint Soars
- Free software runs Android apps via Windows XP News Linux for Devices:
BlueStacks announced that a free alpha version of its software allowing Windows XP users to run Android apps is now downloadable. The BlueStacks App Player comes with ten apps and allows an additional 26 to be installed, while a related Cloud... - Shortwave pirate radio preserved at the Internet Archive | Radio Survivor
- Jason Scott is an archivist and historian of computer and internet history behind such great projects as textfiles.com, which preserves the wonders of the
- Penguin bans ebooks from UK libraries also; ALA calls their attitude an insult; OverDrive screw-up? | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- From The Bookseller: Penguin UK is now withholding the supply of its new e-book releases to its library suppliers in the UK, following the same decision
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry
- FCC threatens merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, AT&T cries foul
- 'There’s nothing to do on Google+. Every time someone figures out a possible use for it, Google turns out the lights.' slate.com/articles/techn…
- FCC slips dagger into AT&T, T-Mobile merger • The Register
- Dragonriders of Pern author Anne McCaffrey dies • The Register
- Library Press Conference | Occupy Wall Street Library
- Russia Today features the Buzzer | The SWLing Post
- U.S. radio quiz show Wait Wait to get TV debut | Reuters
- Google+ had a chance to compete with Facebook. Not anymore. - Slate Magazine
- Pakistan bans 1,100 naughty words from text messages
- FCC threatens merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, AT&T cries foul
- Pakistan's crackdown on dirty words in text messages includes everything from "tongue" to "sexy" to "bullcrap."
- Pakistan shelves ‘obscene’ text message ban
- The real reason Britain is not growing – Telegraph Blogs
- [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J52BQFdPLJ4[/youtube] Why is Britain growing more slowly than other developed nations? Why have we been outperformed over the past 12 months by every EU state except Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Romania? Let's start by dismissing the Labour-Guardian-BBC explanation: the idea that the...
- DHS issues Turkey fryer warning | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner
- Why Might A Publisher Pull Its E-Books From Libraries? by Laura Hazard Owen « INFOdocket
- The Jawa Report: #OccupyLA Gets Perks
- Why Might A Publisher Pull Its E-Books From Libraries? by Laura Hazard Owen « INFOdocket
- Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
- Milestones: Internet Archive Digitizes 5000th Book at Duke University « INFOdocket | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- From the Devil’s Tale Blog (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University): The Internet Archive just reached an
- OverDrive & Penguin: Is Something Steve Potash Wrote in February a Clue to What’s Going On? | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- Like many of you, we’re wondering about what cause today’s OverDrive/Penguin news: OverDrive Suspends Access to New Penguin eBook Titles, “Get For
- Penguin pulls its eBooks off library shelves • The Register
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » More than just fiction? It’s unbelievable!
- Farm households are six times wealthier and earn 20% higher wages than average American family ow.ly/7ATKA
- ‘Occupy Black Friday’? That Would Turn It Into ‘Red Friday’ t.co/RbyWLvTy
- Old debts put crimp in Conneaut budget » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Smile, cameras gone » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Occupy Black Friday Is Officially A Movement
- ‘Occupy Black Friday’? That Would Turn It Into ‘Red Friday’ - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online
- OCCUPY BLACK FRIDAY
- Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship
- 'Casually Pepper Spraying Cop' Meme Takes Off - t.co/6v2y2mD7
- Facebook, "Sharing," and the Freedom to Opt Out
- How Occupy Wall Street Can Restore Clout of the 99%: Scott Turow - Bloomberg
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » More than just fiction? It’s unbelievable!
- Now that the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been driven from many of their encampments, I have an unusual suggestion for how they should next deploy their considerable energies: work across the nation for a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to regulate the expenditure of private money on elections.
- Michael Geist - The Daily Digital Lock Dissenter, Day 34: Public Interest Advocacy Centre
- Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., daily digital lock 34
- Cotton Candy: The USB Sized ARM PC That Runs Ubuntu
- My Espresso Book Machine encounter | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- I got to the Missouri State University Bookstore in Columbia, Missouri in the early afternoon, and went downstairs to where they kept their Espresso machine. As
- Penguin suspends availability of ebooks through OverDrive and “Get for Kindle” | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog: Last week Penguin sent notice to OverDrive that it is reviewing terms for library lending of their eBooks. In the
- Replace record stores with bookstores and see what happens! | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- Got the following email from Thad McIlroy of The Future of Publishing: I thought you might get a kick out of
- BSA marks down SOPA: ‘must try harder’ • The Register
- Nokia's Great Lost Platform • The Register
- Senator Promises To Filibuster Internet Blacklisting Bill | Threat Level | Wired.com
- Nokia's Great Lost Platform • The Register
- If you thought a Senate proposal to shutter and disrupt websites dedicated to infringing activities has died a terrible death, think again. If the stalled measure reaches the floor, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has promised a filibuster by reading the names of Americans opposed to the Protect IP Act.
- Althouse: Scott Turow advocates amending the Constitution to restrict free speech.
- Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire teardown: less memory vs. smaller battery
- iFixit rips into a Nook and a Fire. The devices are quite similar inside, but getting to those internals on the Nook proves a real challenge.
- Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. - Anil Dash
- Jillian C. York » Creamy barf cocktail? OICU812.
- Jillian C. York is a freelance writer and blogger.
- Gordon Crovitz: The Police Remove the Occupy Wall Street Tents - WSJ.com
- In The Wall Street Journal, Information Age columnist Gordon Crovitz notes that the law is clear: the First Amendment does not protect unlawful behavior that poses a threat to health and safety.
- Free Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » In an age of ebooks, do we need the bookstore?
- Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » What Can the Music Business Teach the Book Business?
- Satellite tech, app connect your iPhone anywhere in the world | The Digital Home - CNET News
- Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » In an age of ebooks, do we need the bookstore?
- Iridium technology now lets iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch owners connect to the Web on 90 percent of the planet, where wireless networks aren't available. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on The Digital Home.
- Penguin halts libraries' e-book lending, citing security fears | Digital Media - CNET News
- Amid a surge in e-book sales, the publisher raises concerns over insecure book-lending distribution and pulls back on allowing digital-book borrowing. Read this blog post by Jay Greene on Digital Media.
- Off the grid? No cat videos or Netflix for you | Geek Gestalt - CNET News
- If you or someone you love lives in a remote area, your options for getting online may well be very limited. Be aware that whatever choice you make--satellite or mobile broadband--you'll have strict download limits. Read this blog post by Daniel Terdiman on Geek Gestalt.
- ALA Releases Statement Regarding Penguin/OverDrive Situation « INFOdocket
- ALA calls for Penguin Group to restore e-book access to library patrons
- Walt at Random » Blog Archive » How many US public libraries have actually closed?
- DX International shortwave radio: Canada choice of champions
- DX International shortwave radio: Broadcast Matters: Long, Medium and Short
- DX International shortwave radio: FROM THE ARCHIVES: Tuning in the longwave bands, Monitoring Times 2002
- life and times of sha.ddih » Why wireless mesh networks won’t save us from censorship
- Old Time Radio : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
- ALA calls for Penguin Group to restore e-book access to library patrons
- You are invited to listen to and download Old Time Radio shows here! OTR shows sorted by number of downloads. OTR shows sorted by average review rating. OTR shows sorted by number of reviews. OTR shows sorted by recent reviews. OTR shows sorted by recent additions. OTR shows...
There needs to be a bit of a sort...
2011-11-26 by
This needs a wee bit of sorting perhaps:
- Why SOPA endangers America's Internet leadership
- Google terminating more products in house cleaning
- Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors: documentary on the net's hidden physical infrastructure « Boing Boing
- Official Google Blog: More spring cleaning out of season
- Kim Andrew Elliott reporting on International Broadcasting
- Shopping madness turns violent on Black Friday - USA - FRANCE 24
- stuart langridge retweeted -- Seems to me some Tories think that library closures can be addressed by distributing one special book j.mp/sN039t
- 11 GB+ of digital #pirate radio recordings: swling.com/blog/2011/11/1… #PirateRadio #SWL #Shortwave #Archive
- OCRegister Text Alerts The Orange County Register
- Mark Steyn: SS Spendaholic sailing into debt abyss The Orange County Register
- Google machine-guns unpopular social products • The Register
- Ubuntu tells dumped CouchDB: It's not you, it's me • The Register
- This Week in Internet Censorship: Opaque Censorship in Turkey, Russia, and Britain | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Cities Pay for Occupations
- 'Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone' | 11alive.com
- Inquiry into public library closures announced
- Libraries centre stage at WIPO
- Bloomberg's Media Plan for Occupy Eviction -- and His Failure
- librarian.net » Blog Archive » Pirating for Dummies – torrenting easy-ish to block, but does it solve any real problem?
- The Corner - National Review Online
- Penguin Restores E-Book Access Amidst Amazon Negotiations | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Prime Minister to send a Bible to every school | National Secular Society
- T2 SDE - The Open System Development Environment
- Wikipedia can be inhospitable to expert contribution | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and relate...
- Publishers Association supports Penguin e-book withdrawal | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and r...
- China overtakes US as world’s biggest smartphone market • The Register
- Penguin letting libraries loan e-books for Amazon’s Kindle through end of year - The Washington Post
- ‘Flash Robs’: Trying to Stop a Meme Gone Wrong | Threat Level | Wired.com
- The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia
- Sweeping net filters trample ISPs' rights, says Euro beak • The Register
- Ofcom: ISPs can cripple the web as much as they please • The Register
- Free software runs Android apps via Windows XP - News - Linux for Devices
- Google terminating more products in house cleaning
- Free software runs Android apps via Windows XP News Linux for Devices:
BlueStacks announced that a free alpha version of its software allowing Windows XP users to run Android apps is now downloadable. The BlueStacks App Player comes with ten apps and allows an additional 26 to be installed, while a related Cloud... - Shortwave pirate radio preserved at the Internet Archive | Radio Survivor
- Jason Scott is an archivist and historian of computer and internet history behind such great projects as textfiles.com, which preserves the wonders of the
- Penguin bans ebooks from UK libraries also; ALA calls their attitude an insult; OverDrive screw-up? | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- From The Bookseller: Penguin UK is now withholding the supply of its new e-book releases to its library suppliers in the UK, following the same decision
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry
- FCC threatens merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, AT&T cries foul
- 'There’s nothing to do on Google+. Every time someone figures out a possible use for it, Google turns out the lights.' slate.com/articles/techn…
- FCC slips dagger into AT&T, T-Mobile merger • The Register
- Dragonriders of Pern author Anne McCaffrey dies • The Register
- Library Press Conference | Occupy Wall Street Library
- Russia Today features the Buzzer | The SWLing Post
- U.S. radio quiz show Wait Wait to get TV debut | Reuters
- Google+ had a chance to compete with Facebook. Not anymore. - Slate Magazine
- Pakistan bans 1,100 naughty words from text messages
- FCC threatens merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, AT&T cries foul
- Pakistan's crackdown on dirty words in text messages includes everything from "tongue" to "sexy" to "bullcrap."
- Pakistan shelves ‘obscene’ text message ban
- The real reason Britain is not growing – Telegraph Blogs
- [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J52BQFdPLJ4[/youtube] Why is Britain growing more slowly than other developed nations? Why have we been outperformed over the past 12 months by every EU state except Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Romania? Let's start by dismissing the Labour-Guardian-BBC explanation: the idea that the...
- DHS issues Turkey fryer warning | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner
- Why Might A Publisher Pull Its E-Books From Libraries? by Laura Hazard Owen « INFOdocket
- The Jawa Report: #OccupyLA Gets Perks
- Why Might A Publisher Pull Its E-Books From Libraries? by Laura Hazard Owen « INFOdocket
- Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
- Milestones: Internet Archive Digitizes 5000th Book at Duke University « INFOdocket | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- From the Devil’s Tale Blog (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University): The Internet Archive just reached an
- OverDrive & Penguin: Is Something Steve Potash Wrote in February a Clue to What’s Going On? | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- Like many of you, we’re wondering about what cause today’s OverDrive/Penguin news: OverDrive Suspends Access to New Penguin eBook Titles, “Get For
- Penguin pulls its eBooks off library shelves • The Register
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » More than just fiction? It’s unbelievable!
- Farm households are six times wealthier and earn 20% higher wages than average American family ow.ly/7ATKA
- ‘Occupy Black Friday’? That Would Turn It Into ‘Red Friday’ t.co/RbyWLvTy
- Old debts put crimp in Conneaut budget » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Smile, cameras gone » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Occupy Black Friday Is Officially A Movement
- ‘Occupy Black Friday’? That Would Turn It Into ‘Red Friday’ - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online
- The Corner - National Review Online
- OCCUPY BLACK FRIDAY
- Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship
- 'Casually Pepper Spraying Cop' Meme Takes Off - t.co/6v2y2mD7
- Facebook, "Sharing," and the Freedom to Opt Out
- How Occupy Wall Street Can Restore Clout of the 99%: Scott Turow - Bloomberg
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » More than just fiction? It’s unbelievable!
- Now that the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been driven from many of their encampments, I have an unusual suggestion for how they should next deploy their considerable energies: work across the nation for a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to regulate the expenditure of private money on elections.
- Michael Geist - The Daily Digital Lock Dissenter, Day 34: Public Interest Advocacy Centre
- Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., daily digital lock 34
- Cotton Candy: The USB Sized ARM PC That Runs Ubuntu
- My Espresso Book Machine encounter | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- I got to the Missouri State University Bookstore in Columbia, Missouri in the early afternoon, and went downstairs to where they kept their Espresso machine. As
- Penguin suspends availability of ebooks through OverDrive and “Get for Kindle” | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog: Last week Penguin sent notice to OverDrive that it is reviewing terms for library lending of their eBooks. In the
- Replace record stores with bookstores and see what happens! | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- Got the following email from Thad McIlroy of The Future of Publishing: I thought you might get a kick out of
- BSA marks down SOPA: ‘must try harder’ • The Register
- Nokia's Great Lost Platform • The Register
- Senator Promises To Filibuster Internet Blacklisting Bill | Threat Level | Wired.com
- Nokia's Great Lost Platform • The Register
- If you thought a Senate proposal to shutter and disrupt websites dedicated to infringing activities has died a terrible death, think again. If the stalled measure reaches the floor, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has promised a filibuster by reading the names of Americans opposed to the Protect IP Act.
- Althouse: Scott Turow advocates amending the Constitution to restrict free speech.
- Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire teardown: less memory vs. smaller battery
- iFixit rips into a Nook and a Fire. The devices are quite similar inside, but getting to those internals on the Nook proves a real challenge.
- Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. - Anil Dash
- Jillian C. York » Creamy barf cocktail? OICU812.
- Jillian C. York is a freelance writer and blogger.
- Gordon Crovitz: The Police Remove the Occupy Wall Street Tents - WSJ.com
- In The Wall Street Journal, Information Age columnist Gordon Crovitz notes that the law is clear: the First Amendment does not protect unlawful behavior that poses a threat to health and safety.
- Planet Ubuntu
- Free Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » In an age of ebooks, do we need the bookstore?
- Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » What Can the Music Business Teach the Book Business?
- Ubuntu Weblogs
- Satellite tech, app connect your iPhone anywhere in the world | The Digital Home - CNET News
- Free Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Iridium technology now lets iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch owners connect to the Web on 90 percent of the planet, where wireless networks aren't available. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on The Digital Home.
- Penguin halts libraries' e-book lending, citing security fears | Digital Media - CNET News
- Amid a surge in e-book sales, the publisher raises concerns over insecure book-lending distribution and pulls back on allowing digital-book borrowing. Read this blog post by Jay Greene on Digital Media.
- Off the grid? No cat videos or Netflix for you | Geek Gestalt - CNET News
- If you or someone you love lives in a remote area, your options for getting online may well be very limited. Be aware that whatever choice you make--satellite or mobile broadband--you'll have strict download limits. Read this blog post by Daniel Terdiman on Geek Gestalt.
- ALA Releases Statement Regarding Penguin/OverDrive Situation « INFOdocket
- ALA calls for Penguin Group to restore e-book access to library patrons
Demographic Rambling
2011-11-24 by
Four years of podcasting with LISNews.org has been interesting. The statistics make things even more interesting. Sadly, I do not have a complete set of data points. Those that I do have worry me.
Location is key. When it comes to covering the Library & Information Science world, our main focus is not geography but instead topical matters. Based upon what data I can derive from FeedBurner's limited statistics, we may cover the right topical matters but hit all the wrong areas of geographical coverage.
From the limited geographical data I have, the bulk of listeners to LISTen: An LISNews.org Program happen to be located in places like the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada. US listenership actually comes in a bit lower than would be expected. This may also reflect regional preferences in how you subscribe to podcast content since the FeedBurner link is but one way to subscribe. We simply lack data for some means of subscribing to the podcast.
What can I do with having primarily a foreign audience while the content is primarily produced with a domestic US focus? Some changes in content focus may be necessary perhaps. The big problem with that is that we have virtually no budget and are tethered to the south shores of Lake Erie in a township called Ashtabula. We really do not have the assets in place to cover stories in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada. Expansion of assets would otherwise be necessary and we do not have a way to do so quite just yet.
The fifth year of the program is now underway. I want to make changes this year. A big one would be to secure funding for shortwave distribution. With the lessons of this year in terms of how fragile the Internet is, having a backup is important. Considering how much of the listenership is located outside North America, such would be a viable backup that would also skirt around national blacklists and firewalls.
Getting the resources to cover foreign stories is an even harder thing than simply buying blocks of airtime with money we don't have. Foreign collaborators would be necessary. Without any way to compensate them it is kinda hard to recruit such people. Indigenous correspondents would allow for better coverage anyhow compared to trying to secure a travel budget and visa clearances for international travel. We could previously handle this sort of thing through judicious use of Skype but with as unreliable as Time Warner Cable has been locally we cannot go with that option.
These speed results help illuminate what we are paying USD$39.95 to get:
The easy part is knowing what you want to do. The hard part is finding the resources to bring such to fruition. The search for resources is the big challenge for year five, it seems.
Demographic Rambling by Stephen Michael Kellat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
And yet it is only Tuesday!
2011-11-22 by
The slushpile seems to be going in strange directions so far this week:
- Pakistan bans 1,100 naughty words from text messages
- Pakistan's crackdown on dirty words in text messages includes everything from "tongue" to "sexy" to "bullcrap."
- Pakistan shelves ‘obscene’ text message ban
- The real reason Britain is not growing – Telegraph Blogs
- [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J52BQFdPLJ4[/youtube] Why is Britain growing more slowly than other developed nations? Why have we been outperformed over the past 12 months by every EU state except Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Romania? Let's start by dismissing the Labour-Guardian-BBC explanation: the idea that the...
- DHS issues Turkey fryer warning | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner
- Why Might A Publisher Pull Its E-Books From Libraries? by Laura Hazard Owen « INFOdocket
- The Jawa Report: #OccupyLA Gets Perks
- Why Might A Publisher Pull Its E-Books From Libraries? by Laura Hazard Owen « INFOdocket
- Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
- Milestones: Internet Archive Digitizes 5000th Book at Duke University « INFOdocket | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- From the Devil’s Tale Blog (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University): The Internet Archive just reached an
- OverDrive & Penguin: Is Something Steve Potash Wrote in February a Clue to What’s Going On? | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- Like many of you, we’re wondering about what cause today’s OverDrive/Penguin news: OverDrive Suspends Access to New Penguin eBook Titles, “Get For
- Penguin pulls its eBooks off library shelves • The Register
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » More than just fiction? It’s unbelievable!
- Farm households are six times wealthier and earn 20% higher wages than average American family ow.ly/7ATKA
- ‘Occupy Black Friday’? That Would Turn It Into ‘Red Friday’ t.co/RbyWLvTy
- Old debts put crimp in Conneaut budget » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Smile, cameras gone » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Occupy Black Friday Is Officially A Movement
- ‘Occupy Black Friday’? That Would Turn It Into ‘Red Friday’ - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online
- The Corner - National Review Online
- OCCUPY BLACK FRIDAY
- Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship
- 'Casually Pepper Spraying Cop' Meme Takes Off - t.co/6v2y2mD7
- Facebook, "Sharing," and the Freedom to Opt Out
- How Occupy Wall Street Can Restore Clout of the 99%: Scott Turow - Bloomberg
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » More than just fiction? It’s unbelievable!
- Now that the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been driven from many of their encampments, I have an unusual suggestion for how they should next deploy their considerable energies: work across the nation for a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to regulate the expenditure of private money on elections.
- Michael Geist - The Daily Digital Lock Dissenter, Day 34: Public Interest Advocacy Centre
- Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., daily digital lock 34
- Cotton Candy: The USB Sized ARM PC That Runs Ubuntu
- My Espresso Book Machine encounter | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- I got to the Missouri State University Bookstore in Columbia, Missouri in the early afternoon, and went downstairs to where they kept their Espresso machine. As
- Penguin suspends availability of ebooks through OverDrive and “Get for Kindle” | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog: Last week Penguin sent notice to OverDrive that it is reviewing terms for library lending of their eBooks. In the
- Replace record stores with bookstores and see what happens! | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- Got the following email from Thad McIlroy of The Future of Publishing: I thought you might get a kick out of
- BSA marks down SOPA: ‘must try harder’ • The Register
- Nokia's Great Lost Platform • The Register
- Senator Promises To Filibuster Internet Blacklisting Bill | Threat Level | Wired.com
- Nokia's Great Lost Platform • The Register
- If you thought a Senate proposal to shutter and disrupt websites dedicated to infringing activities has died a terrible death, think again. If the stalled measure reaches the floor, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has promised a filibuster by reading the names of Americans opposed to the Protect IP Act.
- Althouse: Scott Turow advocates amending the Constitution to restrict free speech.
- Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire teardown: less memory vs. smaller battery
- iFixit rips into a Nook and a Fire. The devices are quite similar inside, but getting to those internals on the Nook proves a real challenge.
- Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. - Anil Dash
- Jillian C. York » Creamy barf cocktail? OICU812.
- Jillian C. York is a freelance writer and blogger.
- Gordon Crovitz: The Police Remove the Occupy Wall Street Tents - WSJ.com
- In The Wall Street Journal, Information Age columnist Gordon Crovitz notes that the law is clear: the First Amendment does not protect unlawful behavior that poses a threat to health and safety.
- Planet Ubuntu
- Free Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » In an age of ebooks, do we need the bookstore?
- Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » What Can the Music Business Teach the Book Business?
- Ubuntu Weblogs
- Satellite tech, app connect your iPhone anywhere in the world | The Digital Home - CNET News
- Free Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Link | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Iridium technology now lets iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch owners connect to the Web on 90 percent of the planet, where wireless networks aren't available. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on The Digital Home.
- Penguin halts libraries' e-book lending, citing security fears | Digital Media - CNET News
- Amid a surge in e-book sales, the publisher raises concerns over insecure book-lending distribution and pulls back on allowing digital-book borrowing. Read this blog post by Jay Greene on Digital Media.
- Off the grid? No cat videos or Netflix for you | Geek Gestalt - CNET News
- If you or someone you love lives in a remote area, your options for getting online may well be very limited. Be aware that whatever choice you make--satellite or mobile broadband--you'll have strict download limits. Read this blog post by Daniel Terdiman on Geek Gestalt.
- ALA Releases Statement Regarding Penguin/OverDrive Situation « INFOdocket
- ALA calls for Penguin Group to restore e-book access to library patrons
Somewhat Sorted Slush Pile
2011-11-20 by
This is what the slush pile looks like after some sorting preparatory to scripting.
LISTen
- Amazon's cloud is the world's 42nd fastest supercomputer
- Amazon is polishing its cloud-based supercomputing credentials with a 240-teraflop cluster that ranks as the world's 42nd fastest.
- The Travelin' Librarian » Blog Archive » The #OWS Library and LibraryThing on The Rachel Maddow Show
- Occupy evictions spur legal complaint to UN
- EU agency warns of voluntary surveillance society - FierceGovernmentIT
- Occupy evictions spur legal complaint to UN
- The executive body of the European Union should consider a new regulatory framework in anticipation of an socialized world of ubiquitous devices that gather personal data from nearly every aspect of Read more...
- The Future of Occupy Wall Street - By Veronique de Rugy - The Corner - National Review Online
- BBG: Radio audience far exceeds that of TV, internet | The SWLing Post
- Malaysians biggest radio listeners in Asia-Pacific
- Feds open up access to government data - Technology & Science - CBC News
- BBG: Radio audience far exceeds that of TV, internet | The SWLing Post
- The federal government is easing restrictions on taxpayer-funded data it makes public as part of its open government initiative, and is ordering departments and agencies to post summaries of access releases online by Jan. 1.
- CRTC internet ruling may boost prices - Technology & Science - CBC News
- Internet users may pay more in the future as a result of the CRTC's latest ruling on internet billing, independent internet providers say.
- "Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Flash plugin
- In the 21st-Century University, Let's Ban Books - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- How to install the Nook app onto the Kindle Fire | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- In the 21st-Century University, Let's Ban Books - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- It’s probably obvious from the article posted earlier today about sideloading apps onto the Kindle Fire, but just to make it explicit, Mashable reports that
- Help! Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet? | Signal Strength - CNET News
- In this edition of Ask Maggie, a reader needs advice on choosing between two of the most prominent and least expensive tablets just entering the market. Read this blog post by Marguerite Reardon on Signal Strength.
- SOPA's latest threat: IP blocking, privacy-busting packet inspection | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
- A little-noticed section of the Stop Online Piracy Act could require deep-packet inspection and blocking IP addresses of copyright-infringing Web sites, a significant change from earlier versions. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Privacy Inc..
- librarian.net » Blog Archive » the Kindle lending experience from a patron’s perspective “a wolf in book’s clothing”
- Morten Juhl-Johansen Zőlde-Fejér - Google+ - AbiWord v2.9.2 Released! The AbiWord team joyfully…
- AbiWord v2.9.2 Released!
The AbiWord team joyfully announces AbiWord v2.9.2, the third snapshot
of the development that will lead to AbiWord 3.0.
This… - More on the 5K+ books in the People's Library that the NYPD tossed in a dumpster. #OWS #bibliocide fb.me/ZDyy2BRb
- Police evict Wall Street protesters from NY park - UNITED STATES - FRANCE 24
- Police have ordered protesters in New York to quit their camp in Zuccotti park near Wall Street, but will allow them to return once it has been cleaned. The protesters are planning a mass march on Thursday to mark their two-month anniversary.
- Patient BW, DOB 2/16/1971 — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
- Sept 24: Facebook is scaring me. (Seems like the tech blogosphere has caught up, 2 months later.). r2.ly/uvi6
- Scripting News: Facebook is scaring me
- Aaron Toponce - Google+ - Am I the only one who does not like this? I get the…
- Sept 24: Facebook is scaring me. (Seems like the tech blogosphere has caught up, 2 months later.). r2.ly/uvi6
- Am I the only one who does not like this? I get the opportunity to change my wireless access point's SSID, so Google doesn't track it geographically?…
- Aaron Toponce - Google+ - Google Wants To Track Your Physical Location
- WWII shortwave messages found on cardboard discs | The SWLing Post
- WBCQ The Planet » Blog Archive » Free Speech Radio Special
- Voices for the Library » Blog Archive » Birmingham City Council’s library cuts: from world class city to mediocrity
- US State Department not for internet freedom - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
- WWII shortwave messages found on cardboard discs | The SWLing Post
- The SOPA bill will help private companies cut off internet sites only to protect their profits.
Burning Circle
- Report: Steve Jobs Considered Building Apple Mobile Network | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- It should be no surprise that Steve Jobs liked to do things himself, hence Apple's "walled garden" approach, but did the company almost become a wireless carrier?
- New Desktop Interface Flops | ZDNet
- It’s not just Windows 8 Metro, other new interfaces, like Linux’s GNOME 3.2, stink just as much.
- Learning from GNOME | Xfce Blog
- Learning from GNOME
- Where desktop sanity prevails « Larry the Free Software Guy
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Not Support Old CPUs - Softpedia
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Not Support Old CPUs
- Steve Jobs wanted iPhone on its own network, carrier-free
- Sprint Unveils Capped Data Plans for Devices | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- South Korea proposes restricting all e-mail sending to official e-mail servers | ZDNet
- Technolog - Sprint first carrier to offer wireless emergency alerts
- Sprint Unveils Capped Data Plans for Devices | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Sprint will start allowing free, wireless emergency alerts — text messages from the National Weather Service, state and local emergency operations center, even the President — becoming the first U.S.- Pocket Spies
- PandaBoard demo'd running Android 4.0 - News - Linux for Devices
- PandaBoard demo'd running Android 4.0 News Linux for Devices: PandaBoard.org's community-driven PandaBoard is the first device to run Android 4.0, according to Texas Instruments (TI) and the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). Based on TI's dual-core, 1GHz OMAP4430 processor -- similar to the OMAP4460 available in the soon-to-ship Samsung Galaxy Nexus...
- 12.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Proceedings
- anonscm.debian.org Git - freedombox/freedom-maker.git/summary
Unclassifiable so far
- BBC World News faces sponsorship clampdown
- Computers are so middle class â Mark E Smith • The Register
- Oops: Public backs web blocking in Google-funded poll • The Register
- France tightens works visas for foreign graduates - FRANCE - FRANCE 24
- Computers are so middle class â Mark E Smith • The Register
- Following a memo signed by Interior Minister Claude Guéant (pictured), many foreign graduates in France have recently seen their applications for work permits rejected and are being told to leave the country. France24.com takes a closer look.
- Boxee Live TV: Another Way to Stick It to the (Cable) Man | PCWorld
- Boxee Live TV lets you import shows from local broadcast stations.
- Cord Cutters, Rejoice! Boxee Dongle Delivers Live HDTV, Sans Subscription | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
- I abandoned cable TV years ago. I couldn't afford to spend hours in front of the boob tube, absorbing Jersey Shore-isms and Two and a Half Manliness. But there are definitely times when I miss being able to watch TV, live and in HD. Luckily, Boxee, maker of the Boxee set-top box, has come up with a solution that provides access to basic live TV, in HD, without the need for a cable subscription. It's the Boxee LiveTV dongle. LiveTV gives you access to basic channels like ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in HD, all without a monthly subscription fee. This Boxee Box add-on costs $50, and is currently available for pre-order.
- BBC World News faces sponsorship clampdown after Malaysia row | Media | guardian.co.uk
- Trust investigation finds serious breaches of editorial guidelines in shows about carbon trading. By Mark Sweney and Tara Conlan
- Gallery: Mysterious Structures In China's Gobi Desert | Life's Little Mysteries
- Mysterious Symbols in China Desert Are Spy Satellite Targets, Expert Says | LiveScience
- AT&T: Sprint's public, private claims are two-faced | Mobile - CNET News
- Mysterious Symbols in China Desert Are Spy Satellite Targets, Expert Says | LiveScience
- AT&T claims Sprint is contradicting itself in making one set of claims to the public, and another in confidential responses to the FCC. Read this blog post by Roger Cheng on Mobile.
- Do a device's specs really matter? | The Digital Home - CNET News
- An argument has cropped up on the Web over whether or not a device's specs really matter to consumers. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on The Digital Home.
- Rafe recommends: Downcast smokes iTunes for podcasts | Rafe's Radar - CNET News
- Like podcasts? You can do better than using Apple's software to subscribe and listen to them. Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman on Rafe's Radar.
- One in four American women take medication for a mental disorder | Mail Online
- Cuba accuses US of sneaky Wi-Fi imperialism • The Register
- 'Right to be forgotten' may not be enforceable - Vaizey • The Register
- Visa to tell shops where their punters' wallets went next • The Register
- Open source team creates apocalypse survival kit • The Register
- US nuclear aircraft carrier George Bush crippled by toilet outages • The Register
- One in six Americans used social web to get their job • The Register
- Sweden's female students have more sex partners... • The Register
- Hypersonic missile successfully hits Ronald Reagan • The Register
- Cuba accuses US of sneaky Wi-Fi imperialism • The Register
Google Watch
- Here's how to opt out of Google's Wi-Fi snooping - Computerworld Blogs
- Google has long collected information about people's home and business Wi-Fi networks, and included it in a database that it uses for location services. The company now lets you opt out so that you network isn't included, but it could be harder to do than you think. Here's how to do it, in a few easy steps.
- Google will ignore your Wi-Fi router ... if you rename it • The Register
- Google WiFi Opt-Out Method Met with Skepticism - Security - News & Reviews - eWeek.com
- Google offers a way for users to opt out of having their WiFi routers included in its Location Server, but some believe the method is too complicated for most consumers.
- Google serves up Ice Cream Sandwich code • reghardware
- Google Releases 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Source Code | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Google releases Android 4 source code, but true openness still elusive
- Google Releases 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Source Code | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Google has announced that it is publishing the source code of Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The code drop will also include the Honeycomb source history.
- Google Now Letting Users Opt Out of Wi-Fi Location Tracking | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Google is now officially offering the means to opt out of having your Wi-Fi location data tracked.
- Google Analytics A Potential Threat to Anonymous Bloggers - Waxy.org
Outer Fringes
- Niall Ferguson on 2021: The New Europe - WSJ.com
- EU agency warns of voluntary surveillance society goo.gl/ArDEk
- Lauren Weinstein's Blog: The Coming Fascist Internet
- EU agency warns of voluntary surveillance society goo.gl/ArDEk
Education Madness
- Explaining the Diminishing Returns to Non-STEM Higher Education « The Volokh Conspiracy
- The Volokh Conspiracy » The New Physiocrats, or, Is There Value in the Humanities?
- GayPatriot » What value the humanities?
- Elite Firms Fishing in a Very Small Hiring Pool - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic
- The Volokh Conspiracy » The New Physiocrats, or, Is There Value in the Humanities?
- Last week, I wrote the Tyranny of the Meritocracy, where I tried to explore, a little, the rise of…
Updated slush pile
2011-11-17 by
Sometimes the slush pile takes on entirely different directions by mid-week...
- GayPatriot » What value the humanities?
- anonscm.debian.org Git - freedombox/freedom-maker.git/summary
- Explaining the Diminishing Returns to Non-STEM Higher Education « The Volokh Conspiracy
- Google Releases 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Source Code | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Klout Opt-Out
- South Korea proposes restricting all e-mail sending to official e-mail servers | ZDNet
- Sprint Unveils Capped Data Plans for Devices | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- The Volokh Conspiracy » The New Physiocrats, or, Is There Value in the Humanities?
- Voices for the Library » Blog Archive » Birmingham City Council’s library cuts: from world class city to mediocrity
- WWII shortwave messages found on cardboard discs | The SWLing Post
- Lauren Weinstein's Blog: The Coming Fascist Internet
- More on the 5K+ books in the People's Library that the NYPD tossed in a dumpster. #OWS #bibliocide fb.me/ZDyy2BRb
- WBCQ The Planet » Blog Archive » Free Speech Radio Special
- Morten Juhl-Johansen Zőlde-Fejér - Google+ - AbiWord v2.9.2 Released! The AbiWord team joyfully…
- anonscm.debian.org Git - freedombox/freedom-maker.git/summary
- AbiWord v2.9.2 Released!
The AbiWord team joyfully announces AbiWord v2.9.2, the third snapshot
of the development that will lead to AbiWord 3.0.
This… - Aaron Toponce - Google+ - Am I the only one who does not like this? I get the…
- Am I the only one who does not like this? I get the opportunity to change my wireless access point's SSID, so Google doesn't track it geographically?…
- Aaron Toponce - Google+ - Google Wants To Track Your Physical Location
- 'Right to be forgotten' may not be enforceable - Vaizey • The Register
- Amazon's cloud is the world's 42nd fastest supercomputer
- 'Right to be forgotten' may not be enforceable - Vaizey • The Register
- Amazon is polishing its cloud-based supercomputing credentials with a 240-teraflop cluster that ranks as the world's 42nd fastest.
- Google releases Android 4 source code, but true openness still elusive
- Google has announced that it is publishing the source code of Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The code drop will also include the Honeycomb source history.
- Google will ignore your Wi-Fi router ... if you rename it • The Register
- Visa to tell shops where their punters' wallets went next • The Register
- Google serves up Ice Cream Sandwich code • reghardware
- Cuba accuses US of sneaky Wi-Fi imperialism • The Register
- Computers are so middle class â Mark E Smith • The Register
- THE BUFFETLINE's sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free
- Visa to tell shops where their punters' wallets went next • The Register
- Create, record and share the sounds you create anywhere to friends, family and the world with SoundCloud, the world's largest community of sound creators.
- MythTV Cast : Episodes
- This show is an oggcast about MythTV. MythTV is an open-source PVR that allows you to record tv programs (and filter out all the commercials) as well as manage all your media: your photos, music, and dvd collection. We will explore all of these features and more throughout this podcast. Please join us as explore this wonderful application.
- Help! Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet? | Signal Strength - CNET News
- In this edition of Ask Maggie, a reader needs advice on choosing between two of the most prominent and least expensive tablets just entering the market. Read this blog post by Marguerite Reardon on Signal Strength.
- AT&T: Sprint's public, private claims are two-faced | Mobile - CNET News
- AT&T claims Sprint is contradicting itself in making one set of claims to the public, and another in confidential responses to the FCC. Read this blog post by Roger Cheng on Mobile.
- Do a device's specs really matter? | The Digital Home - CNET News
- An argument has cropped up on the Web over whether or not a device's specs really matter to consumers. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on The Digital Home.
- France tightens works visas for foreign graduates - FRANCE - FRANCE 24
- Following a memo signed by Interior Minister Claude Guéant (pictured), many foreign graduates in France have recently seen their applications for work permits rejected and are being told to leave the country. France24.com takes a closer look.
- Police evict Wall Street protesters from NY park - UNITED STATES - FRANCE 24
- Police have ordered protesters in New York to quit their camp in Zuccotti park near Wall Street, but will allow them to return once it has been cleaned. The protesters are planning a mass march on Thursday to mark their two-month anniversary.
- Commands tagged podcast | commandlinefu.com
- Great UNIX/Bash commands tagged with podcast - see these and many other invaluable command-line nuggets at commandlinefu.com
- librarian.net » Blog Archive » the Kindle lending experience from a patron’s perspective “a wolf in book’s clothing”
- Google Now Letting Users Opt Out of Wi-Fi Location Tracking | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Google is now officially offering the means to opt out of having your Wi-Fi location data tracked.
- How to install the Nook app onto the Kindle Fire | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- It’s probably obvious from the article posted earlier today about sideloading apps onto the Kindle Fire, but just to make it explicit, Mashable reports that
- BBC World News faces sponsorship clampdown
- Google WiFi Opt-Out Method Met with Skepticism - Security - News & Reviews - eWeek.com
- Google offers a way for users to opt out of having their WiFi routers included in its Location Server, but some believe the method is too complicated for most consumers.
- BBC World News faces sponsorship clampdown after Malaysia row | Media | guardian.co.uk
- Trust investigation finds serious breaches of editorial guidelines in shows about carbon trading. By Mark Sweney and Tara Conlan
- Here's how to opt out of Google's Wi-Fi snooping - Computerworld Blogs
- Google has long collected information about people's home and business Wi-Fi networks, and included it in a database that it uses for location services. The company now lets you opt out so that you network isn't included, but it could be harder to do than you think. Here's how to do it, in a few easy steps.
- New Desktop Interface Flops | ZDNet
- It’s not just Windows 8 Metro, other new interfaces, like Linux’s GNOME 3.2, stink just as much.
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Not Support Old CPUs - Softpedia
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Not Support Old CPUs
- Where desktop sanity prevails « Larry the Free Software Guy
- Malaysians biggest radio listeners in Asia-Pacific
- Learning from GNOME | Xfce Blog
- Malaysians biggest radio listeners in Asia-Pacific
- Learning from GNOME
- “For the Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man” « Agnostic, Maybe
- Steve Jobs wanted iPhone on its own network, carrier-free
- Patient BW, DOB 2/16/1971 — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
- In the 21st-Century University, Let's Ban Books - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- PandaBoard demo'd running Android 4.0 - News - Linux for Devices
- Steve Jobs wanted iPhone on its own network, carrier-free
- PandaBoard demo'd running Android 4.0 News Linux for Devices: PandaBoard.org's community-driven PandaBoard is the first device to run Android 4.0, according to Texas Instruments (TI) and the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). Based on TI's dual-core, 1GHz OMAP4430 processor -- similar to the OMAP4460 available in the soon-to-ship Samsung Galaxy Nexus...
- Boxee Live TV: Another Way to Stick It to the (Cable) Man | PCWorld
- Boxee Live TV lets you import shows from local broadcast stations.
- Rafe recommends: Downcast smokes iTunes for podcasts | Rafe's Radar - CNET News
- Like podcasts? You can do better than using Apple's software to subscribe and listen to them. Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman on Rafe's Radar.
- CRTC internet ruling may boost prices - Technology & Science - CBC News
- Internet users may pay more in the future as a result of the CRTC's latest ruling on internet billing, independent internet providers say.
- Feds open up access to government data - Technology & Science - CBC News
- The federal government is easing restrictions on taxpayer-funded data it makes public as part of its open government initiative, and is ordering departments and agencies to post summaries of access releases online by Jan. 1.
- Technolog - Sprint first carrier to offer wireless emergency alerts
Sprint will start allowing free, wireless emergency alerts — text messages from the National Weather Service, state and local emergency operations center, even the President — becoming the first U.S.- Report: Steve Jobs Considered Building Apple Mobile Network | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- It should be no surprise that Steve Jobs liked to do things himself, hence Apple's "walled garden" approach, but did the company almost become a wireless carrier?
- Cord Cutters, Rejoice! Boxee Dongle Delivers Live HDTV, Sans Subscription | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
- I abandoned cable TV years ago. I couldn't afford to spend hours in front of the boob tube, absorbing Jersey Shore-isms and Two and a Half Manliness. But there are definitely times when I miss being able to watch TV, live and in HD. Luckily, Boxee, maker of the Boxee set-top box, has come up with a solution that provides access to basic live TV, in HD, without the need for a cable subscription. It's the Boxee LiveTV dongle. LiveTV gives you access to basic channels like ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in HD, all without a monthly subscription fee. This Boxee Box add-on costs $50, and is currently available for pre-order.
- 12.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Proceedings
- The Travelin' Librarian » Blog Archive » The #OWS Library and LibraryThing on The Rachel Maddow Show
- EU agency warns of voluntary surveillance society - FierceGovernmentIT
- The Travelin' Librarian » Blog Archive » The #OWS Library and LibraryThing on The Rachel Maddow Show
- The executive body of the European Union should consider a new regulatory framework in anticipation of an socialized world of ubiquitous devices that gather personal data from nearly every aspect of Read more...
- EU agency warns of voluntary surveillance society goo.gl/ArDEk
Early in week slush pile
2011-11-15 by
Below is a snapshot of where the slushpile stands. Currently Google is dominating news a little. We did get a bit from the UK in there. Thankfully it is only Tuesday so things can still change.
- anonscm.debian.org Git - freedombox/freedom-maker.git/summary
- Explaining the Diminishing Returns to Non-STEM Higher Education « The Volokh Conspiracy
- Google Releases 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Source Code | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Klout Opt-Out
- South Korea proposes restricting all e-mail sending to official e-mail servers | ZDNet
- Sprint Unveils Capped Data Plans for Devices | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- The Volokh Conspiracy » The New Physiocrats, or, Is There Value in the Humanities?
- Voices for the Library » Blog Archive » Birmingham City Council’s library cuts: from world class city to mediocrity
- WWII shortwave messages found on cardboard discs | The SWLing Post
- Lauren Weinstein's Blog: The Coming Fascist Internet
- More on the 5K+ books in the People's Library that the NYPD tossed in a dumpster. #OWS #bibliocide fb.me/ZDyy2BRb
- WBCQ The Planet » Blog Archive » Free Speech Radio Special
- Morten Juhl-Johansen Zőlde-Fejér - Google+ - AbiWord v2.9.2 Released! The AbiWord team joyfully…
- Explaining the Diminishing Returns to Non-STEM Higher Education « The Volokh Conspiracy
- AbiWord v2.9.2 Released!
The AbiWord team joyfully announces AbiWord v2.9.2, the third snapshot
of the development that will lead to AbiWord 3.0.
This… - Aaron Toponce - Google+ - Am I the only one who does not like this? I get the…
- Am I the only one who does not like this? I get the opportunity to change my wireless access point's SSID, so Google doesn't track it geographically?…
- Aaron Toponce - Google+ - Google Wants To Track Your Physical Location
- 'Right to be forgotten' may not be enforceable - Vaizey • The Register
- Amazon's cloud is the world's 42nd fastest supercomputer
- 'Right to be forgotten' may not be enforceable - Vaizey • The Register
- Amazon is polishing its cloud-based supercomputing credentials with a 240-teraflop cluster that ranks as the world's 42nd fastest.
- Google releases Android 4 source code, but true openness still elusive
- Google has announced that it is publishing the source code of Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The code drop will also include the Honeycomb source history.
- Google will ignore your Wi-Fi router ... if you rename it • The Register
- Visa to tell shops where their punters' wallets went next • The Register
- Google serves up Ice Cream Sandwich code • reghardware
- Cuba accuses US of sneaky Wi-Fi imperialism • The Register
- Computers are so middle class â Mark E Smith • The Register
- Visa to tell shops where their punters' wallets went next • The Register
Programming Advisory
2011-11-14 by
New programs up tonight:
LISTen 175: http://lisnews.org/listen_lisnewsorg_program_episode_175
Burning Circle 50: http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/71
The Almost Finalized Slush Pile for LISTen 175 and Burning Circle 50
2011-11-13 by
Almost the finalized slush pile for the week that was...
- Remote StatusNet Groups | jpope.org
- Reforming Higher Education: Incentives, STEM Majors, and Liberal Arts Majors – the Education versus Credential Tradeoff « Th...
- Confessions of an Engineering Washout - TCS Daily
- Ex-porn star reading to kids causes stir - Life
- Book Banning at Missouri Public School | Video | TheBlaze.com
- ‘Right to Riot’ Cemented in Campus Culture - Jonah Goldberg - National Review Online
- Emily Perkins - IMDb
- Reforming Higher Education: Incentives, STEM Majors, and Liberal Arts Majors – the Education versus Credential Tradeoff « Th...
- Emily Perkins, Actress: Juno.
- Get Your Own Damn Counterculture - By Michael Walsh - The Corner - National Review Online
- Ron Radosh » The Continuing Appeal of Communism in the West
- The PJ Tatler » Bombshell Doc: Obama’s NLRB Gears Up to Operate Without Any GOP Members (Update: Romney Slams NLRB)
- AtomPub - StatusNet
- Intelligent women forced to 'dumb down' and find a less-educated man to marry | Mail Online
- Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2011: Chanel Iman PUT ON 15lbs | Mail Online
- Brits Back Twitter, Facebook Shutdown During Civil Unrest - Forbes
- Iona admits ex-official misreported data to outside entities | Inside Higher Ed
- National Emergency Alert Test: Total Failure? - ABC News
- Remember the "borderless" Internet? It's officially dead
- Tuberculosis Breaks Out At Occupy Atlanta’s Base « CBS Atlanta
- What is FreedomBox - Contact Con - freedomboxfndn
- On Our Radar: 'Viciously More Expensive' Energy - NYTimes.com
- Senate votes in favor of net neutrality rules
- Margaret Wente - The Globe and Mail
- Router glitch causes widespread net outages • The Register
- Linux Mint moves to Gnome 3, keeps Gnome 2 MATEy • The Register
- Can 24/7 porn rescue Google TV? • The Register
- Ubuntu republic riven by damaging civil wars • The Register
- Where are all the decent handheld scribbling tools? • The Register
- RIAA chief: Copyright bills won't kill the Internet
- Charlie Hebdo hacker says he ‘did nothing wrong’
- The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network
- Best Buy to shutter all UK megastores • Channel Register
- Saturday Word Of The Day
- Drug cops log Nigerian star's 24 bowel movements • The Register
- YouTube - Ubuntu Contributor Channel
- how to spatchcock a chicken | Cookthink
- 10 Linux Distros Every IT Manager Should Know - Linux and Open Source - News & Reviews - eWeek.com
- White House pledges to veto anti-net-neutrality resolution
- Barnes & Noble: Microsoft using patents to cripple Android competition
- Test of National Emergency Alert System Goes (Lady) GaGa | CNSnews.com
- Walmart.com test stores hint at Web shopping fight | Reuters
- Ron Radosh » The Continuing Appeal of Communism in the West
- CANOGA PARK, Calif (Reuters) - Two tiny Walmart.com stores are making Southern California malls their home for the holidays, launching the latest salvo in the war for online retail dominance.The temporary
- Broadcasters not ec-static over EAS glitch - BostonHerald.com
- If yesterday’s first-ever nationwide broadcast of the Emergency Alert System is how Uncle Sam plans to save us from impending doom, then we’re in trouble, say radio talk show hosts who blasted the Federal Communications Commission’s trial run, which experienced its own mini-emergency....
- Feds Test Emergency Alert System Across the U.S. | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- That interruption to your favorite show at around 2 p.m. ET was the first-ever nationwide EAS test and it wasn't without its glitches.
- Some Glitches in First Nationwide Emergency Alert Broadcast - NYTimes.com
- The first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System didn’t exactly go off without a hitch. Lady Gaga, anyone?
- Nationwide emergency warning test needs fine-tuning - latimes.com
- There was no panic in the streets from the first nationwide test of the government’s emergency warning system, but there might have been among federal officials after Wednesday’s test didn’t come off smoothly.
- Adobe guts mobile Flash player strategy
- Adobe is reportedly planning to discontinue development of new mobile Flash player ports for additional platforms. Instead, the company's mobile Flash efforts will focus on AIR and generating native applications.
- Aus radio industry wants content quotas punted • The Register
- Ohio Senate Democrats propose 2-year ban on reintroducing Senate Bill 5 | cleveland.com
- Less than two days after voters repealed Senate Bill 5, Ohio Senate Democrats want to pass legislation that would prevent Republicans from reintroducing all or portions of the law.
- Dish Networks looks forward to 'seat at the table' in wireless • The Register
- PJ Lifestyle » Mental Health Cuts in the News
A quick test of the posting script
2011-11-12 by
A posting script exists on the in-house SheevaPlug for editing this blog. The script maintains the blog on the plug computer first. The script also uses rsync to send a copy to the server where you are reading this. Since this is a blog made up of static files, comments are not currently supported. That might change with time but currently stands that way.
Further updates to site layout and more are yet to come...