LISNews: Librarian News

This week's episode contains a zeitgeist update, a book review, and a discussion of the latest by the FCC on net neutrality. Musical numbers under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licenses are aired in lieu of public service announcements this week.

Related links:
LOLCat Bible
Ars Technica on Net Neutrality #1
Ars Technica on Net Neutrality #2
Ars Technica on Net Neutrality #3
The Register on Net Neutrality
eWeek on Net Neutrality
Michelle Malkin on Net Neutrality, claiming that Internet access is not a civil right
Huffington Post on Net Neutrality #1
Huffington Post on Net Neutrality #2
The Office of the Federal Register on the Congressional Review Act
Politico looking at the Congressional Review Act's possible use against the net neutrality order
Washington Examiner: Senator DeMint versus the FCC
Ars Technica: "Republicans on new FCC net neutrality rules: kill!"
Slate: "If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet -- A counterfactual history of cyberspace."
Fox News: "Republicans Aim to Block FCC's New Internet Rules Before They Go Into Effect"
News Telegram: "FCC amok"

The FCC's Net Neutrality order in PDF format
The FCC's Net Neutrality order in Microsoft Word format

Nightmares by Design by Severed Fifth from which we played "Drill Down"
Jimmy Carter by 20lb Sounds

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

There is no news miscellany this week. We take a look instead in further depth at the zeitgeist on-site.

The mainstream media is depressing us pretty badly as all they seem to talk about in libraries are these few topics: retirements, deaths, and budget cuts. That also cuts into things we can talk about. With an effectively non-existent budget, we don't have the capacity of an organization like Reuters or Agence France-Press to do original reporting. The Air Staff chose in this episode to make a call for materials submissions for potential airing. Audio cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, and audio CDs would be acceptable while microcassettes and DAT cassettes would not be. The episode audio has more details but for the avoidance of doubt the mailing address stipulated is:

Erie Looking Productions
P.O. Box 1658
Ashtabula, OH 44005
United States of America

Related links:
The social networking tool poll

This week's episode brings some quick hits and references WikiLeaks.

Related links:

Open Network Libraries project in New Zealand
Reuters on the new WikiLeaks dump
BBC News on the new WikiLeaks dump
Australian Broadcasting Corporation news on the new WikiLeaks dump
Voice of Russia on the new WikiLeaks dump
Archives.gov with a quick overview of the infamous Zimmerman Telegram which helped draw the United States into World War I

Somehow we survived last week's re-transmission of an old-timey Thanksgiving special. This week's episode brings a zeitgeist update and a news miscellany. A book review was planned but that is being held back for a later episode.

Related links:
Possible bank holiday for wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton
RISKS Digest hitting Facebook
WIRED on Facebook censoring links in their new messaging system
The Register on Facebook's new messaging system being similar to a business unified inbox
Deutsche Welle on privacy concerns with the Facebook messaging system
CNET's Caroline McCarthy on the launch of the Facebook messaging system
The Register on Sir Tim Berners-Lee and threats to the web
Essay by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on threats to the web
The Register's Andrew Orlowski on Facebook's messaging system
CNET's Maggie Reardon on a new satellite broadband system
National Review Online on NPR surviving a de-funding attempt
Ars Technica on the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act
The current text of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act currently before the US Senate
Richard M Stallman on how the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act is part of the war on sharing
Richard M Stallman referring to the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act as a blacklist for the Internet
Shortwave America blog seeing the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act as a possible tool for content isolationism
Ars Technica: "Why Don't Americans Want Broadband?"