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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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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #233 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
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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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This week's program brings a reading of some of the infamous lines from The LISNews Librarian Pickup Lines.

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This week's program brings the annual warnings about hurricane season followed by Profile America mentioning an interesting new data release the Census Bureau is making and then a news miscellany.

Related links:

• PCWorld: EFF asks for help defeating podcast patent troll
• Ars Technica: EFF wants $30,000 to defeat a podcasting patent troll
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Help Save Podcasting!
• The Register: Yahoo! ready! to! fling! $600m! at! Hulu!
• PCWorld: Find your own private Internet with Freenet

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This special edition discusses the current news of revelations of government acquisition of Verizon cell phone customer call records and discusses some software solutions available for preserving privacy.

Related links:

• ACLU on Obama’s NSA Snooping on Verizon Customers: ‘It Is Beyond Orwellian’ | Jammie Wearing Fools
• Leaked docs show NSA collects data on all Verizon customers • The Register
• NSA collecting data on all Verizon calls - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
• Obama Ramps Up Domestic Surveillance: Secret Court Order Requires Verizon To Hand Over All Call Records On A Daily Basis To NSA… | Weasel Zippers
• "Report: Gov’t scooping up Verizon phone records" | protein wisdom
• Report: NSA Was Granted Order to Snag Millions of Verizon Call Records for 3 Months | Threat Level | Wired.com
• Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily | World news | The Guardian
• Secret court order allows the government to access all Verizon call records | PCWorld
• The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Verizon Turning Over Records of Every Domestic Call to the NSA?
• WASHINGTON: Judge behind phone records threw out Obamacare - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com
• Wil Wheaton - Google+ - I'm leaving Verizon today, and looking for a new wireless…
• Wil Wheaton - Google+ - Sen. Chambliss (R-GA): “This is nothing particularly new." …
• Leo Laporte - Google+ - I gave thousands of dollars to help elect +Barak Obama  and…
• White House: Spying on US citizens “critical” tool for fighting terror | Ars Technica
• Top secret doc shows NSA demands Verizon hand over millions of phone records daily | Ars Technica
• Althouse: "Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama."
• The PJ Tatler » White House: Obama ‘Welcomes a Discussion of Tradeoffs Between Security and Civil Liberties’
• The PJ Tatler » Feinstein, Chambliss: Phone Records OK Because Government Didn’t Listen In
• The PJ Tatler » White House Claims NSA Phone Records Dragnet, a ‘Critical Tool’ in Protecting US
• NSA secretly vacuumed up Verizon phone records | Politics and Law - CNET News

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This week's episode brings a brief essay, retransmission of an excerpt of a program from US government external broadcaster Voice of America concerning the cyber-snooping situation, and a news miscellany.

Related links:

• Zero Hedge: Number Of Older Workers (55 And Over) Rises To New Record High
• PJ Tatler: Payroll-to-Population Ratio Keeps Shrinking
• Zero Hedge: Where The (Low-Paying) Jobs Were Are
• Public Libraries News: New Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman will “bang the drum” for libraries
• The Bookseller: Blackman named Children’s Laureate
• The Telegraph: Malorie Blackman is a great choice to inspire children - - Malorie Blackman, author of the Noughts & Crosses, has the wit and passion to be a fantastic Children’s Laureate for 2013-2015, says Martin Chilton.
• BBC News: Malorie Blackman Q&A: Meet the new Children's Laureate
• B&N Removes Nook for PC and Nook for Mac Apps
• The Daily Dot: How to get by on the Internet without PRISM companies
• SNWH: The Threat of Immortality
• Fox News: College professor says 'obese' grad applicants lack 'willpower' to finish degrees

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This week's program brings another retransmission from the Voice of America where the continuing cyber-snooping situation is discussed. Stephen tells a tale of how communications metadata can be used in a benign but contemporary way. A news miscellany is also presented.

Related links:

• VOA Voice of America: Issues in the News
• Monitoring Times/Shortwave Central: WYFR to close all shortwave services
• The News-Gazette: Library director says mistake was made in book 'weeding'
• Pegasus Librarian: Managing a collection is easier without all those books in the way: The Urbana Free Library’s lesson for the rest of us
• Ars Technica: Encrypted e-mail: How much annoyance will you tolerate to keep the NSA away?
• Practical Cryptography: GPG (2008)
• Free Software Foundation: Fight PRISM through the Free Software Directory
• PCWorld: NSA surveillance hikes interest in non-US cloud providers
• CBS MoneyWatch: Why geniuses don't have jobs

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