LISNews: Library Futurists

This week's episode contains a telephone interview discussing the digital divide in John Lennon's hometown of Liverpool and a news miscellany.

Direct Download: Ogg Vorbis Audio

Related links:
LISEvents: 4th QQML2012 International Conference
LISEvents: InPACT 2012 - International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends
LISEvents: eBUG Conference 2012
LISEvents: Crimea 2012
LISWire: Gale Digitizes Popular 20th Century Weekly For Students and Scholars
Dan Lynch
Seven Streets: Liverpool is getting left behind online
An Amazon List
The Star Beacon: Kingsville celebrates tradition while helping library
Reuters: Pakistan blocks Twitter access over "blasphemous content"
Agence France-Presse: Pakistan restores Twitter after block over Prophet cartoons
Voices For The Library: Reflections on the Arts Council Consultation Workshop
Stop the privitsation of Public Libraries
Ars Technica: WiFi’s future: faster, smarter, and fewer cables
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty Proposals
Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF Joins Coalition Denouncing Secretive WCIT Planning Process
LISNews: Room for Debate: Threat or Salvation for Library?
New York Times: Seizing the Future or Renouncing Its Past? -- Should the New York Public Library go forward with its plan to consolidate two branches into a renovated version of its main building?

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The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions regrets that illness continues to prevent the production and release of programming this week. In the meantime we offer a story aired on X Minus One called "A Logic Named Joe" courtesy the Internet Archive. You can directly download the audio of such here in MP3 format. The story's original text by Murray Leinster can be found here courtesy Baen Free Library.

Barring further disruption, we expect to return with normal programming on or near May 14, 2012.

This week's episode of LISTen looks at Terms of Service in the social infrastructure operated by the private sector and contemplates consequences.

Direct Download Link: Ogg Vorbis Audio

Related link:
Paid Content: OWS protestor doesn’t own his tweets, judge rules
CBC News: Google Drive terms of service spark privacy concerns
Ars Technica: Google Drive files can end up in ads, even though you still own them
PC World: The Problem with Google Drive
VodkaPundit: Who Owns You? Google Owns You
FreedomBox Foundation
StatusNet
MediaGoblin

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #196 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. -- Read More

This week's slightly delayed episode contains a piece of media criticism by Madam Producer and a news miscellany.

Direct Download: Ogg Vorbis (Audio)

Related links:
Peter Murray: Reflections on Little Free Libraries
FutureOfCapitalism.com: Ebook Antitrust
TheNextWeb: Iran’s government to shut down access to the Internet by August
The Register: Iran's plan to UNPLUG the INTERWEBS back from the dead
Ars Technica: Iran moving ahead with plans for national intranet

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #194 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. -- Read More