LISNews: Librarian News

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 episode looks around the LISHost galaxy while looking at some ambiguous information in a speculative manner.

Related links:

• LISWire: Worch Memorial Public Library Joins COOL and Goes Live on Evergreen
• Pwnie Express: Pwn Plug Elite
• Wired: The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network
• The Verge: Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity
• CNET: WikiLeaks says Aaron Swartz may have been a 'source'
• The Guardian: Libraries crisis set to get 'much worse' this year
• Galileo 0.012 released!

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This week's program deals with Wikipedia hoaxing, an Internet icon, and a miscellany of brief items.

Related links:

• The Daily Mail: The war that never was: Most elaborate Wikipedia hoax ever as 4,500 word article on 'Bicholim Conflict' - a fictitious fight for Goan independence - fooled site for FIVE YEARS
• Yahoo News: War is over: Imaginary ‘Bicholim Conflict’ page removed from Wikipedia after five years
• PC World: Fake Wikipedia entry on Bicholim Conflict finally deleted after five years
• The Register: Anger grows over the death of Aaron Swartz -- Internet prodigy hounded to suicide claims family
• Althouse: "Prosecutor as bully."
• Threat Level: Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26
• EFF Deeplinks: Farewell to Aaron Swartz, an Extraordinary Hacker and Activist
• Reuters: Internet activist, programmer Aaron Swartz dead at 26
• BoingBoing: RIP, Aaron Swartz
• PCMag.com: Family of Aaron Swartz Blames U.S. Attorney's Office in Statement
• Legal Insurrection: Sad irony in Aaron Swartz case
• Patterico's Pontifications: EXCLUSIVE: Attorney for Aaron Swartz: Prosecutors’ Arguments Were “Disingenuous and Contrived”
• New York Times: Failing to Close the ‘Digital Divide’
• It's Not About the Books: Mission creep – a 3D printer will not save your library
• PCMag.com: FCC Chairman Wants to Ease Wi-Fi Congestion
• The Verge: JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library
• Public Libraries News: Discovery, warmth, knowledge, dreams, welcoming … what’s your five words to describe public libraries?
• Voices for the Library: Concern over loss of Arts Council England Libraries post
• Megan McCardle: Is Barnes and Noble Next?

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Digging through the clutter of the online world: A Q&A with TED Books author Jim Hornthal
The latest TED Book deals with an issue we all can relate too: the difficulty of finding answers to complex questions on the Internet when a simple search can lead you down a rabbit hole of impersonal data. In A Haystack Full of Needles: Cutting Through the Clutter of the Online World to Find a Place, Partner or President, Jim Hornthal explores groundbreaking new approaches to discovering the useful insights buried deep within our complex and noisy datasphere. Hornthal, a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, introduces us to innovators who are pushing the edges of data science and data visualization by applying the principles of pattern recognition to isolate relevant signals in the noise. Their efforts will have enormous implications for the way we practice medicine, discover music and movies, and even identify our romantic partners.

Curious to hear more about the ideas he explores in his e-book, the TED Blog asked Hornthal a few questions over email.