LISNews: Librarian News

This week's program brings a zeitgeist update and a miscellany of news items.

Related links:
TechCrunch on the death of cuil
The Register on Internet Explorer 9 not being fully usable on Windows XP
Download center for Opera web browser
Home page for the Arora browser
The MP3-Enabled Radio That May Supplant Playaway Devices
VOA News on the Lifeplayer
Jessamyn West says goodbye to Bloglines
Robert Scoble on the decline of reading RSS feeds
Dave Winer on Rebooting RSS
Dave Winer on RSS Architecture
MozillaZine Knowledge Base on "Saved Search" Folders in Thunderbird
Carrier Pigeon versus Rural Broadband
BT Against The Carrier Pigeon
The VLink Project at the University of Waterloo
Dog park lit by dog poop

This week's episode is truncated due to the Labor Day holiday. A recap of the LISNews zeitgeist as well as a miscellany of things we found on the web is presented. There are no public service announcements aired during this episode.

Related links:
The Master's Degree Misperception
The Enlisted and Officer Classes in Libraries
Gateway Pundit on Net Neutrality
Reuters on Net Neutrality
Reason's Hit & Run blog on Net Neutrality
Jerry Pournelle on the need to feel useful
CNN Money on Harrisburg defaulting on a bond issue
Jessamyn West on library jobs
Reuters on Google being investigated
The Register on Google being investigated
The Register on Google Wave being open-sourced
The Register on the FCC killing off a proposal for free wireless broadband
The Register on GMail's unintentional jazziness
ValleyWag on GMail's unintentional jazziness
Declan McCullagh on AT&T being against net neutrality
RFC 2638
RFC 2475
Ryan Paul writting in Ars Technica about Twitter's alleged wrongheaded implementation of OAuth

Last things first, here is the view off the Smolen-Gulf Covered Bridge referenced at the end of the episode:

Click the picture for a larger view on Flickr.

This week's episode includes an interview with Will Manley discussing his recent forays into looking at politics and the profession. A miscellany of items is presented of items that caught our attention but were not expanded upon into larger items. OhioLinuxFest 2010 is mentioned as there is going to be a main track presentation about libraries & librarians at an event that really isn't librarian-focused.

Related links:
Diligent Room on making textbooks with pediapress
Ray Bradbury talking revolution
Terry Reese on paywalls
Byron York at the Washington Examiner talking Kindles and Civil Rights In Education
Slate on the communications strategy of the Russian spy ring that was recently sent home
Barry Kauler on Puppy Linux 5.1
Reuters on how Americans don't want government to build out broadband
CNN talking about the rise of electrical black-outs in America
BBC News on the rise in enrollment at Open University
BBC News discussing the Google-Verizon open Internet proposal
CNET's Molly Wood talking about the Google-Verizon proposal lacking any provisions relative to mobile broadband
Andrew Orlowski on Google's seeming self-interest in the Google-Verizon proposal
Andrew Orlowski on the web's hyper-powers and how the Google-Verizon proposal might lead to their being locked in as hyper-powers
The Economist on changes in global communications

(This is our best rendering of the current special into the quality of content found on the mobile web)

We're back! Well, we're almost back. This is a special edition of LISTen in which we talk about the digital divide and bring you a miscellany of stories we've come across this summer.

Our studio arrangements are not quite in place yet. This is the best we can come up with at the moment:

We'll be back on a normal episode production cycle starting August 23rd:

Related links:
Mobile phones not key to bridging the digital divide
Sixth report by the Federal Communications Commission on broadband deployment
Broadband access plans with HughesNet
The Vatican was "Google-Bombed"
Digital Divide worsened by tech
Vice-Chancellor of Open University on the Digital Divide
Information wants to be paid for
Reuters on Internet access in Cuba
New web broadcasts for North Korean defectors -- Read More