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LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #146

March 20, 2011 - 10:30pm — StephenK

Over the past week Erie Looking Productions has unsuccessfully grappled with a massive reduction in computing power. Two computers dying within days of each other is not a good thing. An annotated round-up of links from the slush pile is presented in this post while the audio brings an old-time radio classic.

With luck we'll be fully recovered operationally next week.

From the slush pile: (Click "Read more" to see the links) -- Read More

31:04 minutes (8.89 MB)
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Cancellation Notice for 14 March 2011

March 11, 2011 - 10:27am — StephenK

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Erie Looking Productions has suffered a catastrophic equipment failure. As we attempt to repair damage it must be noted that the regularly scheduled release for 14 March 2011 is cancelled. Barring disruptions the next programming release is set for 21 March 2011.


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Cancellation Notice for 14 March 2011 by Stephen Michael Kellat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Production Calendar Test

March 1, 2011 - 6:09pm — StephenK

For better or worse an operational calendar is being updated using IceOwl with Google Calendar hosting it on the back-end. To keep up with the production calendar, use this link in your calendaring package:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/erielookingproductions@gmail.com/public/basic.ics

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LISTen An LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #144

February 28, 2011 - 12:29am — StephenK

This week's episode of LISTen brings the return of segment-sized Tech for Techies. A news miscellany is also presented.

Listeners must re-point their podcast receiving software to the following address to continue to receive the podcast uninterrupted: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LISNewsNetcasts

Related links:
Twitter outage
Google-bombing abortion to equal murder
Iranian Cyber Army attacks The Voice of America
Lianza updates on libraries affected in Christchurch
The Tatler: Counties Dying
The Associate Press: Counties Dying

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Excluding United States Government content incorporated herein, LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #144 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. -- Read More

11:30 minutes (4.61 MB)
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LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast -- Unnumbered Special Edition (23 February 2011)

February 23, 2011 - 12:21am — StephenK

This episode talks about information architecture in today's situation of dysfunctional nation-states that have shown no hesitation in terminating or curtailing Internet access within their territories.

An example of a plug computer mentioned in the program (click to enlarge):
A plug computer

Related links:
Declan McCullagh on the current Internet outage in Libya
Roundup looking back on the Egyptian Internet outage...barely three weeks ago...
Al Jazeera English: Defiant Gaddafi vows to fight on
Al Jazeera says Libya intelligence jamming broadcasts
BashPodder
Rsync
HTTrack
Internet Engineering Task Force "Request for Comments" Documents
Downloading RFC documents using Rsync
SheevaPlug
Eben Moglen speaking with the New York City chapter of the Internet Society (audio and video of the presentation)
Rough transcript of Moglen's presentation
Debian Wiki on FreedomBox
FreedomBox Foundation
An early effort pioneered by Case Western Reserve University that attempted to reach a goal similar to that proposed by Moglen

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast -- Unnumbered Special Edition (23 February 2011) by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

13:15 minutes (5.31 MB)
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LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #143

February 21, 2011 - 12:13am — StephenK

This week's episode is brief as there will be another release on Wednesday. Sometimes the production cycle does not give us time to adapt to late-breaking events. This week's episode presents a news miscellany that touches upon Borders, Facebook, and The FreedomBox.

As of March 1st we will be breaking the previous URL for subscribing to the podcast. Your podcatcher must be pointed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/LISNewsNetcasts to continue to receive the program. That target is already live and active so it may be used immediately.

Related links:
New York Times: The FreedomBox
Software Freedom Law Center: Freedom in the Cloud
The Register: The FreedomBox
PCMag.com: National Broadband Map
Fox News: National Broadband Map
BBC News: Borders seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Australian Broadcasting Corporation News: Borders seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy
The Register: Google on Manual Search Penalties
The Register: Facebook on SIM

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #140

January 31, 2011 - 12:13am — StephenK

This week's episode is a cross-cutting, interdisciplinary look at the violation of the knowledge ecology perpetrated in Egypt. Practical discussion is presented as to circumventing the disruption of Internet access as well as SMS/MMS messaging as seen there. Implications for information architecture are also discussed.

Related links:
Xubuntu Project Lead Approved
Mashable: Egypt Protests
Deutsche Welle: Egypt Protests
Media Network: Egypt Protests
Renesys: Egypt Leaves The Internet
The Other McCain: Egypt Protests
The Register: Egyptian Media Crackdown
Al Jazeera English: Egypt Leaves The Internet
Al Jazeera English: Online Activism Fueling Protests
Caroline McCarthy: No such thing as a "social media revolution"
Committee to Protect Journalists: Egypt Leaves The Internet
The Register: Vodafone acknowledges shut down order
Librarian Phoebe Ayers: Egypt Protests
Infodisiac: Egypt access to Wikipedia disappears
The Associated Press: Egypt Leaves The Internet...and fails to quell protests!
Media Network: Radio Netherlands Worldwide to target increased broadcasting at Egypt
The Associate Press: The Day Part of the Internet Died
RFC 1930: "Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)"
Ars Technica: How Egypt Fractured The Internet
RIPE Network Coordinate Centre stats on Egypt traffic
Project Gutenberg's CD & DVD Project for offline access
LOCKSS
MirrorBrain
FLDIGI
QSSTV
TOR Project: Egyptians Switch En Mass To The Onion Router
TOR Project: Downloading for Ubuntu

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast -- Episode #140 / Burning Circle 17 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

11:54 minutes (9.54 MB)
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