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
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