LISNews: Librarian News

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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YouTube Is Said to Plan a Subscription Option

Newspapers have digital subscriptions. Record labels have iTunes and Spotify. And YouTube is about to have special programming for paying customers.

This week YouTube, the world’s largest video Web site, will announce a plan to let some video makers charge a monthly subscription to their channels. There will be paid channels for children’s programming, entertainment, music and many other topic areas, according to people with knowledge of the plan, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they had been asked by YouTube not to comment publicly yet. Some of the channels — there will be several dozen at the outset — will cost as little as $1.99 a month.

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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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Books about homosexuality are on the same shelf as books on incest and prostitution.

Homer's "Iliad" is in the nonfiction section.

The works of Shakespeare and books on Elizabethan culture are nowhere near each other.

"I think it's troubling," said Jeff Aubuchon, the librarian at Oakmont Regional High School. "I'm worried about the message that sends."

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