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This week's episode is another quick one that talks about the seemingly ephemeral nature of electronic communications as of late.

You can directly download such HERE

Related links:

The PJ Tatler » Iran’s Net Neutrality: They Shut Down the Internet for Everyone Equally

Pakistan's plan for the "coldblooded murder of the Internet"

We take a look at the Pakistan government's plan to buy censorship hardware capable of blocking up to 50 million websites today... and filtering citizen e-mail tomorrow.

SOPA's author wants everything you do online logged and made available without a warrant « Boing Boing

Pentagon suffers Internet access outage | Reuters

Instapundit » Blog Archive » SHUT UP, PLEBES: FCC Inquires Into Its Own Authority To Regulate Communication Service Shutdown...

FCC Inquires Into Its Own Authority To Regulate Communication Service Shutdowns - Slashdot

Anonymous Declares War – Glenn Beck

And something somewhat unrelated served up by Archive.org:

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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.

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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 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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