This week's episode contains a rather large news review. There wasn't a major connecting thread to the news this week outside the shutdown-that-was-not. Since that fizzled we look at the scattered news bits that deserve consideration.

Related links:
Last minute tax filing tips (MP3)
Groklaw on shutting down
Ann Althouse on a tax base challenge
Ars Technica on the first step being taken towards passing House Joint Resolution 37 to kill net neutrality regulations
The Register on that procedural step HJR 37 underwent
Reuters reporting HJR 37 passing the House, moving on for Senate action
Michael Geist on the Conservative Party of Canada's digital economy platform
The Librarian in Black against DRM
The folks at Defective By Design proposing a Librarians Against DRM group
The Free Software Foundation, the parent organization of Defective by Design
Gawker: Twitter regresses to infancy
Dave Winer's screenshot of Twitter backsliding
Reuters on the failure at Twitter
PCMag Digital Network on the failure at Twitter
The Register on MMS being the new killer app in the mobile space
DIY server software for interacting with patrons via SMS #1
DIY server software for interacting with patrons via SMS #2
DIY server software for interacting with patrons via SMS #3
Library of Congress Public Affairs on Deanna Marcum being selected for the Melvil Dewey medal
Ars Technica on bandwidth caps around the world
Deutsche Welle on publishing translations of German works in the US
Library of Congress Public Affairs on new entries to the National Recording Registry
Radio Netherlands Worldwide's Media Network blog on Google's attempt to reorganize YouTube to compete with broadcast television
Russian internal security agency comes out against Skype
Russian internal security agency comes out against Hotmail
Reuters on the Russian Federal Security Service complaining about web-based off-shore e-mail providers
Deutsche Welle on the Berlin prostitute engaging in the trade of negotiable affections to pay for her PhD studies
Amy Buckland referencing the new McMaster University librarian's view that PhDs with non-LIS skill sets may be the future of libraries

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We talk demography this week and why it matters at your library. Mister Engineer selected this week's bits out of the slush pile to make up The Miscellany.

Related links:
Ohio Department of Development profile of Ashtabula County
The indefatigible Shelly Terry writing about Ashtabula City's per capita income
NTIA's broadband map summary for Ashtabula County
Ohio Department of Development profile of Cuyahoga County
Cleveland.com on Cleveland Public Library getting a Sports Research Center
Cleveland.com on Cuyahoga County Public Library turning off internal security gates and releasing a smartphone app to do check-outs on your own
The Register on Amazon Web Services failing
The Register on using Amazon Web Services
Wired on Wi-Fi Squatting
Fabian Scherschel at LXNews.org on New Zealand's new copyright infringements regime
The Annoyed Librarian: Librarian Anti-Defamation League versus Nabisco
The Register analyzing iPhone location tracking
Read Write Web on Android phones also engaging in location tracking
The Register on Google Versus The Infringed Patent
The Register on Kindle Library Lending
Andy Woodworth on Kindle Library Lending
IEET on preparing for Electromagnetic Pulse issues

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This week's episode is brief due to cascading countervailing requirements.

Related links:

Kindle, Nook, Other E-Readers Wrecking Publishing Industry: Report - Desktops and Notebooks - News & Reviews - eWeek.com - e...

Apple comments on iPhone location storm, software update soon

Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works (Update VIII)

The PhD problem: are we giving out too many degrees?

Extending WiFi to one mile, thanks to empty TV channels

How do you use 1Gbps Internet links? Chattanooga residents find out

Money flowing into "open courseware" on college campuses

Amazon gets 'F' for communication amidst cloud outage

Five amazing computers for under £100

Did PlayStation Network hackers plan supercomputer botnet?

Bike Messengers Pedal Past Bandwidth in Data Race | Raw File | Wired.com

The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Holds That Violating Any Employer Restriction on Computer Use “Exceeds Authorized Access” (Making It a Federal Crime)

Superman threatens to renounce US citizenship - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Attackers Can Use IPv6 to Launch Man-in-the-Middle Attacks - Security - News & Reviews - eWeek.com

Kyiv Post. Independence. Community. Trust - Russia and former Soviet Union - Russia could propose Internet copyright regulation idea - president

Reform the PhD system or close it down : Nature News

In defense of military science fiction | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics

Raymund Paredes: $10,000 Degrees "Entirely Feasible" — Higher Education | The Texas Tribune

Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer | ZDNet

Sony apologizes for data breach but can't rule out credit card data theft | World | Deutsche Welle | 01.05.2011

BBC News - Sony to resume some PlayStation gaming services

Gas prices keep rising

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This week's episode talks about radical budget rearrangement and brings a news miscellany.

Related links:
Welsh station going from Internet-only to a radio broadcast focus
TV ownership on the decline
Claire Berlinski on censorship in Turkey
Medal on display at Northern Territory Library
"Open Wireless Movement"

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This week's episode features an interview with Patrick Frey of Patterico's Pontifications about the recent Blogger disruption and an unseemly incident that arose from it. An essay and a news miscellany are also featured.

Related links:
Ed Bott: Blogger outage makes case against cloud-only strategy
Instapundit on the outage at the Ann Althouse blog
Patterico: On nitecruzr and the memory hole
Patterico: The full support thread saved from expurgation
Google's copy of the support thread with expurgations
bin Laden and mechanical backhaul for e-mail
The Register on the bin Laden e-mail cache
Wizzy Digital Courier, a lab set-up solution that can use mechanical backhaul
Evan Prodromou highlighting the launch of Open Font Library and Open Clip Art Library 3.0
Dave Winer on super-injunctions
GigaOm on super-injunctions
Dave Winer on Web 2.0 Expiration Date
National Review Online's Media Blog on New York Times online traffic
Library of Congress press office announcing awards in federal librarianship
CBC News: Kutcher to join Two and a Half Mean

Other found things...

BILL CLINTON IS A XXXXXXXXXXXXX -- Midwest Conservative Journal

Coyle's InFormation: Dystopias

"Really, if we don't do this, the future of libraries and research will be decided by Google. There, I said it."

Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Are volunteers happy to run libraries?

Senate bill gives feds power to order piracy site blacklisting

Rutgers team proposes Net alternative

Rutgers team proposes Net alternative

Spammer-in chief? | Gene Healy | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

New graphics engine imperils users of Firefox and Chrome

CILIP | Clear messages

New resources to demonstrate value of further education libraries

The Business Rusch: Writing Like It’s 1999 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Business Rusch: Advocates, Addendums, and Sneaks, oh my! | Kristine Kathryn Rusch

How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"

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This week's episode brings an essay about a new attempt at fracturing the Internet which will otherwise alter the knowledge ecology. More than oil emanates from the Middle East.

A microblog feed has been instituted for items from the slush pile that do not otherwise make it to air. You can find such on Twitter at ELPPILE and on Identica at ELPSLUSH.

Related links:
Radio Netherlands Worldwide Media Network blog highlighting Iran's attempt to fracture the Internet
Internet luminary Dave Winer on Iran's attempt to fracture the Internet
Wall Street Journal on Iran's attempt to fracture the Internet
Nova: The Cuban take on Linux
CIA World Factbook on Cuba
CIA World Factbook on Iran
CIA World Factbook on raw amounts of Internet users ranked by nation-state

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This week's first episode brings a teaser discussing the difference between rattling off stats and talking about benefit statements for individuals. This will be further explored later this week. LISTen #156 is scheduled for release Wednesday.

Related links:
Probably the most important library-related news over the week that was: EBSCO & H.W. Wilson set to merge
Stephen Abram on Twitter usage
MSNBC's take on Twitter usage

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This week's second episode brings the essay that was teased out earlier about libraries needing to take stands to bolster their identity. The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, the counterpart in the United Kingdom to the ALA, is mentioned. Thursday's bit of Profile America is also presented.

Related links:
The Annoyed Librarian: Libraries, Literacy, and the Poor
Stephen Abram talking about what the brand of libraries is
Pew Internet & American Life Project on the surprisingly small user base for Twitter compared to all online adults in the US
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals on libraries making differences in lives
Bloomberg Businessweek on the financial state of the United States Postal Service
Ed Corrado: MARC is better than Dublin Core
Ed Corrado: RDA and transforming to a new bibliographic framework

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This week's solitary episode talks about e-mails and unintended consequences of Freedom of Information legislation. Highlights from LISEvents.com, LISWire.com, and the slush pile are also presented.

Related links:
Wolper Extends Its Partnership with Copyright Clearance Center
Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press "Freedom of Information" Service Center
3News: Palin emails let old media test new media methods
Rhodri Marsden: Boring emails that are the stuff of life

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This week's somewhat late episode talks about Internet security and contains a draft resolution that somebody could propose at ALA Annual.

Related links:
Anonymous and LulzSec team up for Operation Anti-Security
InSecurity Complex: LulzSec, Anonymous announce hacking campaign
Ars Technica: LulzSec manifesto: "We screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction"
ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom
Channel 4 News: UK teacher suicide rate rises by 80 per cent
Wizbang: Mesh Internet To Defeat Government Repression
Public Diplomacy Council: Reciprocity and radio: The winners are ...
eWeek: U.S. Funds Projects to Bypass Internet Censorship, Government Control
New York Times: U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
Reuters: Secret U.S. effort aims to help dissidents: report
Coyle's InFormation: Opportunity knocks
PDF file of Organization of American Historians guidelines for adjunct faculty
Foreign Policy: Shadow Internet command center revealed (Photo)
The Software Freedom Conservancy

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This week's episode is light in recognition of the ALA Annual hang over. We feature a music break by northeast Ohio band Antiquitous. The song "Ed and Elaine's Promenade" is from their upcoming album "Nexus of the Ley Lines" and was composed by Mister Engineer. Antiquitous describes themselves with: "New melodies from ancient voices for a modern world."

A more substantial episode will come once the ALA Annual hang over has passed. A link dump has been posted in the mean time.

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This week's episode is somewhat light but, then again, we did some technical experimentation. See below:

The traditional audio episode is still posted, too.

Related links:
10 years ago today BBCWS dropped SW to N America
China Radio International now on your local AM station
Former Bulgarian foreign minister calls for 'EU WiFi paradise
Web censorship moves West: While few may object to blocking access to child pornography, online restrictions set dangerous precedent.

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This week's episode goes madly off in all directions.

Related links:
Cameron Kaiser noting that Google Plus lacks an API
MacWorld noting that Google Plus will co-exist with Orkut
PCMag.com on Google stating outright that Google Plus is NOT to be used by businesses and other corporate entities like libraries
PCMag.com on Google killing off private profiles

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"And we're back..."

This week's episode looks at what has been happening on LISWire and LISEvents as well as provides a news miscellany. The full links list is available below the fold after the "Read More" link.

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This episode takes things in a different direction.

Related links:
Legal Insurrection: Britain is our past and our future
Daily Mail: Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters
LIANZA 2011 Children's Book Award Winners
Document Maker in Greenstone
Dr. Newt Gingrich on cutting the federal deficit by defunding the UN instead of other targets like IMLS
Quick bio on Dr. Gingrich

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Contrary to normal practice, a text copy of this episode's essay is presented below the “Read More” fold. A PDF file will also follow in the podcast feed.

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Even though the audio of this episode has the numbering royally screwed up, an interesting look is presented. This is a how-we-did-it sort of episode. As stated in the episode itself: "Consider this a sort of medium-sized Tech for Techies that comes with a side order of curly french fries and a fountain drink."

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Based on a work at ohio.ubuntu-us.org.

This week's program features pontification from the producer, thoughts about geo-location and analyzing your library's web server logs, and two quick story hits.

Related links:
Reuters: "Hulu sale at risk even as new bids are due"
EFF Deeplinks: "No Authors Have Been Harmed in the Making of This Library"

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This week's delayed episode brings a news miscellany. News threads have gone madly off in all directions.

Related links:
LISWire: EBSCO Publishing’s eBook Collection Increases Significantly with Release of New Subject Sets
LISWire: Six Libraries Partner to Bring Customizable Print Slips to Koha
LISEvents: LITA National Forum Conference
Ars Technica: Report: What do we need the 'Net for? Bars, restaurants, and clubs
Technollama: CC 4.0, an end to porting Creative Commons licenses?
The Register: EC: New principles agreed for out-of-print book licensing
PCMag.com: FCC's Net Neutrality Rules Take Effect Nov. 20
Ars Technica: "Google rigs its results," say critics at Senate antitrust hearing
RIANOVOSTI: Internet regulation no threat to freedom of expression - Moscow
Ars Technica: Russia, China, Tajikistan propose UN "code of conduct" for the 'Net
The Atlantic: The Ruins of Dead Social Networks
Voices for the Library: Library Campaign Conference: 22 October, London
Voices for the Library: The Privatisation of Public Library Services
Voices for the Library: The situation in Northern Ireland
technology review: Will Super Wi-Fi Live Up To Its Name?
Dave Winer: Facebook is scaring me
Stephen's Lighthouse: Facebook Dominates (and the new READ button on FB)

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This week's episode brings a round-up of events from LISEvents.com and a couple quick news items.

Related links:
Let’s Discuss: Infosuicide
Searching For Mark Pilgrim
CILIP: 2012 Council election candidates announced
Anonymous Twitter alternative developed for rioters: Favoured by anti-Wall Street protesters, apparently

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This week's initial episode brings a look at happenings on LISWire and LISEvents while also remarking upon a recent thread on SERIALST.

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Although an interview was promised, a pro forma episode is presented instead that mentions BeagleBoard and PandaBoard as well as how to contact the production crew.

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This week's episode features an interview with Jessamyn West as well as some miscellaneous news items. Gary Crawford of USDA's production team for PSAs is also heard again after a short absence.

Related links:
Ohio Library Council convention and expo
Internet Librarian International
Long Island Library Resources Council 20th Annual Conference on Libraries and the Future
Evergreen announces 2013 international conference site
More databases added to WorldCat Local
The creepy story alluded to that WOIO covered
Traffic shaping still not dead
Michael Geist on CARL & CLA being against digital locks
Michael Geist on the linking as defamation case

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This week's episode brings a very relevant audio news release about govdocs from the United States Department of Agriculture as well as an essay and a discussion of creating your own library's wish list like our example.

Further links are below the fold.

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This week's episode is a quick one.

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This week's episode looks at a recent case of an event gone wrong and attempts to draw lessons.

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This week's episode is a quick one since we're so close to a holiday.

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This week's episode is light fare considering the events of "Black Friday Weekend" featuring a radio classic from Dimension X. The raw take of the slush pile is available in lieu of a normal miscellany. A shopping list of items we're seeking for operations during this season of giving can be found here.

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This week's episode is brief as it touches upon high points in the news as we enter into the 12th month of 2011.

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Links Found Over The Last Week

Will the Little Printer make it big? | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics

We’ve taken websites, that we used to print out on full-sized paper, and shrunk them down to fit on handheld devices. So shouldn’t we shrink the print down,

Facebook Buys Gowalla [REPORT]

Facebook has purchased location-based services provider Gowalla for an undisclosed sum, according to a report.

About Those "Record" Black Friday Sales... | ZeroHedge

Chair in Astrobiology Established - The Library Today (Library of Congress)

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced today the establishment of the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.

Defending SOPA - Lamar Smith - National Review Online

Library use in Canada up due to e-books and other e-media | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics

The Canadian Press reports that Montreal’s largest library, the Grande Bibliotheque, is thriving, and Canadian library usage in general is up 45% over the

Netflix rules out Kiwi launch • The Register

Internet-free Facebook comes to Portuguese-speaking Africa

Communication is vitally important for most users, and with Facebook adding more users by the day, ForgetMeNot Africa has come up with a solution to keep the

librarian.net » Blog Archive » Trademark battles – Koha, LibLime, US, New Zealand

librarian.net » Blog Archive » Library as Incubator Project – the best new website you may not know about

Occupy Irrelevance: Is Movement Already Fizzling Out? - Latest Headlines - Investors.com

Despite claims in the media and by supporters, Occupy Wall Street appears to be faltering just two months after the protests started, a big contrast to the Tea Party movement.

Police in LA, Philly raid Occupy camps - Yahoo! News

From Yahoo! News: Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia stormed Occupy Wall Street encampments under darkness Wednesday to arrest or drive out some of the longest-lasting protesters since crackdowns ended similar occupations across the country.

Web-first workflows let publishers focus on the stuff that really matters - O'Reilly Radar

In a recent keynote, PressBooks founder Hugh McGuire said web-first workflows streamline book production so publishers can focus on more important matters, such as writing, finding, and editing great books.

Complaint: medical "copyright over your comments" contracts are illegal

US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook

SOPA on the ropes? Bipartisan alternative to 'Net censorship emerges

Althouse: Bloggingheads collapses.

Althouse: Whatever happened to Occupy [Your City]?

Little Printer | BERG Cloud

This is the Christmas special and the final regular episode for 2011.

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"In protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act proposal, LISTen will be making its debut on shortwave radio. On New Year's Eve, we'll be on WBCQ The Planet on 5.110 MHz at 6 PM Eastern/11 PM Coordinated Universal Time. The podcast release of the program will occur that night after the radio broadcast ends. Listen over the air while we're in the air."

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This is the first part of LISTen's 2011 New Year's Eve Special that originally aired on shortwave powerhouse WBCQ.

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Based on a work at sixgun.org.

This is the second part of LISTen's 2011 New Year's Eve Special that originally aired on shortwave powerhouse WBCQ.

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Welcome back! After hopefully debugging a problem with feed generation that has possibly left subscribers hanging for about five weeks, we have a new episode. Previous episodes remain available for manual download and an experimental initiative is underway to additionally deposit copies with the Internet Archive, California's digital virtual library.

In light of the Dale Askey and Jeffrey Beall cases in Canada for libel, we talk in this episode about the dangerous possibility of challenges erupting in those cases to the notion of librarianship actually being a profession. The case is laid out as to how librarianship may not necessarily be considered truly a profession in contemporary terms on a level with medicine or law. Following that a new miscellany is presented and the show is concluded with USDA Radio's Susan Carter presenting a feature about the Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service working to bridge the Digital Divide in parts of the United States.

Related links:

• Librarian.net: Should it be okay to sue librarians for saying your books are bad?
• LISNews: Colorado Librarian Jeffrey Beall Slapped With Canadian Libel Claim
• Zero Hedge: Households On Foodstamps Rise To New Record
• PJ Media Tatler: Obamanomics: 20 New Food Stamp Recipients for Each New Job
• The Register: Perky smartphone figures can't stop droop of worldwide mobe sales
• The H: Oracle to bulk up Java update on 19 February

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This week's episode rambles around to talk about Open Access, The Sequester, and presents a miscellany of brief items.

Related links:

• librarian.net: Another victory for public and open access
• The Travelin' Librarian: Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research
• e-prints in library & information science: Interview on Open Access with Dr. Stevan Harnad
• Reuters: White House directs open access for government research
• Wall Street Journal: Noonan--Government by Freakout
• Catalog Matters podcast number 18
• The Annoyed Librarian: Author Says UK Libraries Should Close Because He Says So
• CBC News: OK for police to search cellphone if no password, says court
• Evan Prodromou: Building the core of a federated future

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This week's program is brief as it propounds an alternative in a providing support in a particular case and provides some news briefs.

Related links:

• LISNews: Dale Askey Support Facebook Page
• Canadian Government Offices in the U.S.
• PCMag.com: Barnes & Noble Founder Wants to Buy Retail Business, Dump Nook
• The Atlantic: The Enduring Myth of the 'Free' Internet
• CBC News: Hands-free calls impair drivers' brains, study suggests
• Duke University Libraries: New Library Service: Digitize This Book

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This week's program provides a news miscellany.

Related links:

• CBS New York: Officials: Most NYC High School Grads Need Remedial Help Before Entering CUNY Community Colleges
• PCMag.com: Cablevision: Viacom Threatened Billion-Dollar Fine for Dropping Channels
• CBC News: Canadians no longer the biggest web addict, report shows
• Pegasus Librarian: Do you MOOC at all?
• The Corner: The Unemployment Rate: Apples to Apples

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This week's program starts off with a bite-sized edition of Tech for Techies led by the owner & engineer of Erie Looking Productions, Mike Kellat. News is also highlighted relative to Google Reader and its impending demise. The new comment line is mentioned as being 1-206-299-2120, extension 1580. For those willing to risk using a SIP client, sip:1580@sip.sdf.org is also usable addressing.

Related links:

• LISNews: Google Reader to Disappear
• John C. Dvorak: Google Reader Bites the Dust. Who's Next?

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This week's program starts off with a brief essay talking about the disintegration of having a coherent "popular culture" in the United States then turns to the strange case of the Harlem Shake in Oxford. After that the episode wraps up with a news miscellany.

Related links:

• Jim Geraghty: How Do We Win Arguments in a Fragmenting Culture?
• LISNews: Sad Harlem Shake Story
• The Huffington Post: Claypso Nash, Librarian, Fired For Harlem Shake Video Filmed At Oxford University
• The Independent: Oxford university students call for sacked librarian to be reinstated after Harlem Shake at St Hilda's College -- Students fined after recording of viral dance track appeared on YouTube
• The Daily Mail: Oxford University librarian is SACKED after students do the Harlem Shake in her prestigious library
• The Telegraph: Oxford University librarian sacked after students perform Harlem Shake dance and post recording on YouTube -- An Oxford University librarian has been sacked after a group of students recorded a version of the viral dance hit the Harlem Shake in her library and then posted it on YouTube.
• Public Libraries News (which discusses public library closures in the UK)
• Voices for the Library (library advocacy group in the UK)
• Bruce Schneier: The Internet is a surveillance state
• Michael Geist: Federal Librarians Muzzled Under New Code of Conduct
• The Annoyed Librarian: Creeping Canadian Totalitarianism
• The National Post: Digital divide persists in Canada, both in access and Internet fluency
• John C. Dvorak: Put Google Reader Into the Public Domain
• The Travelin' Librarian: 7 Ways Librarians Can Participate in Open Access/Source/Education Communities

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This week's program brings a telephone interview with author Dan Flynn of FlynnFiles.com who wrote a piece at The American Spectator that was commented upon by The Annoyed Librarian. After that there are a couple examples provided by federal agencies of how not to do public service announcements. There is no news miscellany this week and there is a bit of an explanation as to what went wrong one way or another.

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In light of the Air Staff being shorthanded with someone in hospital ICU, this week's episode brings only a news miscellany.

Related links:

• CBC News: Libraries without librarians don't make sense, forum told
• PC World: Serious LibreOffice update fixes 54 bugs
• The Verge: Ebooks made up 22.55 percent of all US publishing revenue in 2012
• Michael Geist: Canada's Digital Divide Likely to Widen Due to Access and Adoption Failures
• Michael Geist: The Canadian Digital Divide -- The Experience Just North of Toronto
• AEIdeas: Obama White House -- US likely faces ‘permanently slower’ economic growth
• The Register: Library ebooks must SELF-DESTRUCT if scribes want dosh - review -- Shovel UK taxpayer cash this way please, say publishers
• The Hill: News bites -- Broadcast lobby chief unalarmed by Fox threat
• PCMag.com: CBS Also Threatens to Yank Broadcast Stations Over Aereo
• Ars Technica: News Corp. COO -- If we lose Aereo lawsuit, Fox may stop broadcasting - Fox probably won't go cable-only, but they'll fight for their retrans fees.
• PCMag.com: News Corp. Threatens to Yank Fox Broadcast Networks Over Aereo
• AllThingsD: News Corp. Threatens to Pull Fox off the Airwaves if Aereo Wins

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Due to aggravated circumstances that have yet to abate, a truncated episode is presented with a news miscellany.

Related links:

• PCMag.com: The Windows 8 Revolt -- Microsoft still has the chance to ditch Windows 8 and return to its tried-and-true operating system. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that will happen.
• ZDNet: First real-world usage figures suggest Chromebooks are struggling
• The Register: Manual override: Raspberry Pi beginners' books -- Do the 'getting started' guides make your first slice of Pi more tasty?
• Ars Technica: Anonymous raises $54,000 to start a news site
• Public Libraries News: Fifty shades of volunteer library

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As aggravated circumstances have continued longer than expected, the engineer also took on duty as acting producer this week since we continue to be short-handed. In lieu of a news miscellany a commentary is presented about online vigilantism and the need for teaching Internet ethics in light of Zero Hedge reporting a falsely identified Boston suspect being found dead, PCMag.com reporting that Reddit apologizing for getting their bomber crowd sourcing wrong, and PJ Media's Chicago editor saying not nice thing about social media in the Boston incident.

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And we're back. The first episode after the production suspension has a series of brief essays followed by a news miscellany.

Related links:

• Ars Technica: Arduino and Wi-Fi, together in the immediate future
• VodkaPundit: Does Sergey Know About Shrinkage?
• College Insurrection: Harvard Crimson now offering library sex tips
• The Volokh Conspiracy: Is the Library of Congress a Legislative Department or an Executive Department?
• Concurring Opinions: Copyright's Constitutional Chameleon
• Mashable: Report -- Yahoo Board Approves Tumblr Acquisition
• Identica: glynmoody -- #Yahoo Board Approves #Tumblr Acquisition - http //ur1.ca/dxl32 this will end in tears
• The Annoyed Librarian: How the Internet Replaces Libraries
• The Travelin' Librarian: What’s a Library? -- Written by a man rich enough to live on W. 53rd St. who’s never been to the library and Googles everything
• The Magpie Librarian: What’s a Library? -- Written by a man rich enough to live on W. 53rd St. who’s never been to the library and Googles everything
• Ars Technica: Blogger writes about predatory publishing, is threatened with $1B suit
• Popehat: OMICS Publishing Group Makes A Billion Dollar Threat
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion
• The Guardian: Chinese internet -- 'a new censorship campaign has commenced'

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