LISNews: Librarian News

This week's episode brings a zeitgeist recap, a programming note apologizing for a deviation from forecast content, a book review in the segment-sized Tech for Techies, and a packed miscellany.

Related links:
First book cited in the book review
Second book cited in the book review
Reuters on Google Instant
The Diligent Room on Google Instant
Andy Ihnatko on Google Instant
The Register on Google Instant killing off some search tools
Cade Metz analyzing Google Instant
Google Instant and search scams
A paper on the epistemological dangers of search scams
French President Nicolas Sarkozy being subject to a Google-bomb
Bloglines about to fade out of existence on October 1st...
Reuters on Dove World Outreach Center losing its web presence
The Register on Dove World Outreach Center losing its web presence
The Register on WikiLeaks prepping a new document dump
Twitter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability, as The Register relates it
Announcement of rolling Linux Mint
Open High School of Utah Releases Open Curricula
Open High School of Utah download site
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Ars Technica on the difficulties in organizing the Internet
Ars Technica on transforming the architecture of the Internet

This week's episode is a quick look at last week's zeitgeist, highlights of the "slushpile", and an editorial from Mike Kellat, the owner of Erie Looking Productions. A related commentary released online by Ontario public broadcaster TVO from commentator Jesse Brown connected to the editorial can be found here directly as an M4V video file.

Due to communications complications the audio payload was originally uploaded over GPRS via a Nokia E71x. Cable broadband is having issues locally apparently relative to throughput.

Related links:
Matt Welch on FTC regulating online reviews
The Ohio News Network on teen texting
Nielsen on mobile phone usage stats
Keith Cowing at NASA Watch about the reach of nasa.gov
The results of the tool Cowing referenced concerning nasa.gov turned to oclc.org instead
Gnash Release
Leo Laporte versus Social Media
Leo Laporte on the Google Buzz bug

Throughout the LISHost media galaxy shared with Erie Looking Productions, there are quite a number of fountains spewing out content. LISNews is where you are reading this. LISWire is the site where folks in the library realm can post their press releases. LISTen is the podcast hosted on the LISNews server that has a feed from Delicious showing stories crossing the threshold for being looked at (also known as the slush-pile). LISTen also occasionally takes the form of a video podcast as circumstances arise.

That's a lot to track. While RSS does wonders, what if you aren't in front of your favorite RSS reader? LISFeeds.com has been reoriented to serve as an aggregator for all of those content manifestations. Posts are interleaved from the various sources into a river of posts. An automatic job on the server polls each source every three hours or so to check for updates. A pinger showing that updates have happened has been rigged up on Identica.

As always, this is a work in progress. Check it out and perhaps enjoy it. Using the planet aggregation software easily allows you to get your metaphorical feet wet with some pre-selected feeds.

(This is our best rendering of the current special into the quality of content found on the mobile web)

We're back! Well, we're almost back. This is a special edition of LISTen in which we talk about the digital divide and bring you a miscellany of stories we've come across this summer.

Our studio arrangements are not quite in place yet. This is the best we can come up with at the moment:

We'll be back on a normal episode production cycle starting August 23rd:

Related links:
Mobile phones not key to bridging the digital divide
Sixth report by the Federal Communications Commission on broadband deployment
Broadband access plans with HughesNet
The Vatican was "Google-Bombed"
Digital Divide worsened by tech
Vice-Chancellor of Open University on the Digital Divide
Information wants to be paid for
Reuters on Internet access in Cuba
New web broadcasts for North Korean defectors -- Read More