Rather than use
software to block legal websites (because of concerns of a lawsuit), a
Florida county commission is considering using software costing between
$5,000 – $20,000 a month to spy on patrons websurfing via their library
card to find out if patrons visit any \”known pornographic site.\”
\”Board
won’t end porn access at library: Commission considers monitoring
software.\” -By Pamela Smith Hayford –News-Press.com
\”…
among the best-selling fiction books of our times—right up there with Tom
Clancy and Stephen King—is a series about the End Times, written by Tim
F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, based on the Book of Revelation. That part
of the Bible has always held its mysteries, but for millions of people
the code was broken in 1995, when LaHaye and Jenkins published Left
Behind: A Novel of the Earth\’s Last Days. People who haven\’t read the
book and its sequels often haven\’t even heard of them, yet their success
provides new evidence that interest in the End Times is no fringe phenomenon.
Only about half of Left Behind readers are Evangelicals, which suggests
there is a broader audience of people who are having this conversation.\”
At HarryPotter.com
click on the \”Daily Prophet,\” (direct link: \”Watch
the Chamber of Secrets Trailer!\”)
scroll to the bottom and pick a player and your connection speed.
Meet Dobby
the Elf and watch Ron and Harry fly a car (poorly).
While listening to blues
on Live365.com, I read on their home
page that the
Librarian of Congress announced the new royalty rate for Webcasting.
Live365 was \”disappointed\” by the rate, \”seven one-hundredth of a cent,
per song, per performance, per listener,\” but still had up a request that
folk send a
\’thank you\’ letter to \”Senators Leahy
and Hatch to thank
them for their attention to this issue.\” They held Senate hearings
on May 15th to discuss the webcasting rates. The audio
of the hearings are currently archived as part of 365\’s (slightly
quirky) government news radio stream collection. The site also
has a resource page on the CARP,
the \”Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel.\”
Copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html
Copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates.html
Webcasting,
Webcaster, Webcast, Internet Web Radio Online, News
While listening to blues
on Live365.com, I read on their home
page that the
Librarian of Congress announced the new royalty rate for Webcasting.
Live365 was \”disappointed\” by the rate, \”seven one-hundredth of a cent,
per song, per performance, per listener,\” but still had up a request that
folk send a
\’thank you\’ letter to \”Senators Leahy
and Hatch to thank
them for their attention to this issue.\” They held Senate hearings
on May 15th to discuss the webcasting rates. The audio
of the hearings are currently archived as part of 365\’s (slightly
quirky) government news radio stream collection. The site also
has a resource page on the CARP,
the \”Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel.\”
Copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html
Copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates.html
Webcasting,
Webcaster, Webcast, Internet Web Radio Online, News
Google search: [CARP
radio]
LISNews Keywords:
copyright
| radio |
RIAA
LISNews Archive:
20020429 \”Web
radio stations shut down to protest LOC/Copyright Office ruling.\” -post
by Ryan
20020326 \”Internet
Radio Faces Increased Royalty Fees.\” -post by Aaron
20020222 \”Proposed
Fees for Broadcasting Songs Online Worry.\” -post by Blake
Dear Chairman Leahy
and Senator Hatch:
Thank you for holding
a hearing about Internet radio and the
risk that Internet
radio is going to be crushed by high
royalties owed to
the record industry. I listen to Internet
radio, I enjoy it
a great deal, and I have purchased several
CDs after first
hearing the music online.
Internet radio helps
me discover new music and enjoy more
varieties of old
music. It is great for artists who don’t get
airplay on broadcast
radio, and great for listeners like me who
dislike cookie-cutter
radio.
Please make sure
that royalties do not kill Internet radio, so
that I can continue
to discover new artists and new music.
Thank you.
NAME
ADDRESS
CITY
Contact The
Honorable Orrin Hatch
Contact The
Honorable Patrick Leahy
Good
Morning America has implemented a nationwide Book Club \’handoff\’ where
(paraphrasing host Charlie), \’one Book Club recommends a book to another
Book Club.\’
Dubbing
it, \”READ THIS!\” ABCNEWS.com kicked off the
recommendations Thursday morning with Ann
Packer\’s novel, The Dive from Clausen\’s Pier, with a chapter at
their website to whet the appetite .
The Jefferson,
Texas, \”Pulpwood
Queens Book Club\” suggested it to the Bernardsville, New Jersey, \”Mostly
We Eat Book Club.\”
They\’re
asking reader\’s to comment
on the book via their e-mail form with the possibility it might be
read on air. They\’re also asking folk to write
in about their book club, (or one they know about).
Good
Morning America has implemented a nationwide Book Club \’handoff\’ where
(paraphrasing host Charlie), \’one Book Club recommends a book to another
Book Club.\’
Dubbing
it, \”READ THIS!\” ABCNEWS.com kicked off the
recommendations Thursday morning with Ann
Packer\’s novel, The Dive from Clausen\’s Pier, with a chapter at
their website to whet the appetite .
The Jefferson,
Texas, \”Pulpwood
Queens Book Club\” suggested it to the Bernardsville, New Jersey, \”Mostly
We Eat Book Club.\”
They\’re
asking reader\’s to comment
on the book via their e-mail form with the possibility it might be
read on air. They\’re also asking folk to write
in about their book club, (or one they know about).
The recent Danish
lawsuit against deep
linking had one
blogger ask \”if link-blocking software is readily available and a website
doesn\’t employ it, does that imply a license to link?\” Lawmeme\’s
poster took \”exception\” with that, opining that \”the idea that there should
be a license assumes that the owner of the website has some right to control
linking,\” continuing his explanation by reminding me IANAL with, \”but that
for some undefined reason there would be a rebuttable presumption of an
implied license.\” It\’s a brief, lively defense of deep-linking and
points out the DMOZ
(google
rank) as well as the ALA
deep linking resources (the latter, I\’m sure, to get a LISNews writeup;-).
A
SFGate.com Special Report
posted F.B.I.
documents from the 1950\’s and 1960\’s released after lengthy
F.O.I.A. lawsuits.
Starting
as a FOIA request by journalism student Seth Rosenfeld in 1981 concerning
\”\”any and all\” records on more than 100 people, events and groups involved
in controversies at UC [University of California] over academic freedom,
civil rights and national policy,\” the 17 year legal battle culminated
in a paper boon for historians.
Still, \”the
FBI has yet to finish turning over the last of the records, said James
Wheaton, the Oakland lawyer now handling the case,\” writes Rosenfeld, now
a SFGate reporter, who points out
Ashcroft\’s new ~withhold for any reason~ FOIA policy.
Included
for comparison are some of the initially released censored
documents and the eventually released uncensored
documents ordered by the courts.
While \”the
FBI claimed it had censored the records to protect law enforcement operations,
personal privacy and national security,\” a comparison of the censored/uncensored
documents shows how the court concluded the F.B.I.\’s activities \”\”came
to focus on political rather than law enforcement aims.\”\”
Apparently
F.B.I. director Hoover\’s concern ignited after learning of \”an optional
essay
question on the University of California\’s 1959 English aptitude test
… that asked, \”What are the dangers to a democracy of a national police
organization like the FBI which operates secretly and is unresponsive to
public criticism.\”\”
A
SFGate.com Special Report
posted F.B.I.
documents from the 1950\’s and 1960\’s released after lengthy
F.O.I.A. lawsuits.
Starting
as a FOIA request by journalism student Seth Rosenfeld in 1981 concerning
\”\”any and all\” records on more than 100 people, events and groups involved
in controversies at UC [University of California] over academic freedom,
civil rights and national policy,\” the 17 year legal battle culminated
in a paper boon for historians.
Still, \”the
FBI has yet to finish turning over the last of the records, said James
Wheaton, the Oakland lawyer now handling the case,\” writes Rosenfeld, now
a SFGate reporter, who points out
Ashcroft\’s new ~withhold for any reason~ FOIA policy.
Included
for comparison are some of the initially released censored
documents and the eventually released uncensored
documents ordered by the courts.
While \”the
FBI claimed it had censored the records to protect law enforcement operations,
personal privacy and national security,\” a comparison of the censored/uncensored
documents shows how the court concluded the F.B.I.\’s activities \”\”came
to focus on political rather than law enforcement aims.\”\”
Apparently
F.B.I. director Hoover\’s concern ignited after learning of \”an optional
essay
question on the University of California\’s 1959 English aptitude test
… that asked, \”What are the dangers to a democracy of a national police
organization like the FBI which operates secretly and is unresponsive to
public criticism.\”\”
Apparently
the Beijing Evening News reported as fact an article from the never
credible, but still oddly \’true,\’
TheOnion.com.
Slashdot\’s
crew kindly pointed out the
original Onion article, along with some interesting observations
on how occasionally the TheOnion\’s articles trump the general news
media in providing factual background information (mixed, of course, with
their selective, blatant falsehoods for a devastating \’I\’m embarrassed
to be laughing at that\’ effectiveness;-).
Reuter\’s
reports the editor of the Beijing Evening News as explaining, \”the
story was written by one of our freelance writers\” [HI BLAKE, thinks the
freelance Hermit, ;-], \”his
stuff has been pretty much reliable before.\”
The extra
punch line is that after the editor heard from Reuters and was \”told the
story came from the Onion and was not true, the editor said, \”We would
first have to check that out. If it\’s indeed fake, I\’m sure there
will be some form of correction.\”\”
LISNews Keywords: China
-|- Chinese
-|-
Apparently
the Beijing Evening News reported as fact an article from the never
credible, but still oddly \’true,\’
TheOnion.com.
Slashdot\’s
crew kindly pointed out the
original Onion article, along with some interesting observations
on how occasionally the TheOnion\’s articles trump the general news
media in providing factual background information (mixed, of course, with
their selective, blatant falsehoods for a devastating \’I\’m embarrassed
to be laughing at that\’ effectiveness;-).
Reuter\’s
reports the editor of the Beijing Evening News as explaining, \”the
story was written by one of our freelance writers\” [HI BLAKE, thinks the
freelance Hermit, ;-], \”his
stuff has been pretty much reliable before.\”
The extra
punch line is that after the editor heard from Reuters and was \”told the
story came from the Onion and was not true, the editor said, \”We would
first have to check that out. If it\’s indeed fake, I\’m sure there
will be some form of correction.\”\”
LISNews Keywords: China
-|- Chinese
-|-
EDUCAUSE.edu\’s
\’site-map\’ (\”Hierarchical Subject Listing\” – \”Taxonomy Page\”)
for its online document collection includes \”term definitions\” (scope notes),
links to the full text articles (\”library items\”), links to specific articles
on \”effective practices and
solutions,\” and eight broad descriptors that expand into subheadings.
EDUCAUSE.edu accepts electronic
submissions
to their \”Information
Resources Library.\” The site may also be keyword
searched.
LISNews Keywords:
controlled
vocabulary
Topics: Information
Architecture
EDUCAUSE.edu\’s
\’site-map\’ (\”Hierarchical Subject Listing\” – \”Taxonomy Page\”)
for its online document collection includes \”term definitions\” (scope notes),
links to the full text articles (\”library items\”), links to specific articles
on \”effective practices and
solutions,\” and eight broad descriptors that expand into subheadings.
EDUCAUSE.edu accepts electronic
submissions
to their \”Information
Resources Library.\” The site may also be keyword
searched.
LISNews Keywords:
controlled
vocabulary
Topics: Information
Architecture
The inititial
blurb from Educause\’s front page:
\”The
Language of Our Profession: Taxonomy Page Updated.\”
… \”Each of us uses the language of information technology to define what
we do in furthering the higher education enterprise. A new design for the
EDUCAUSE Taxonomy
page, a hierarchical subject listing of over 450 terms, helps you more
easily explore topics and find specific documents in the association\’s
extensive collection of online information resources. See how the taxonomy
works in searching for library documents, publications, effective practices,
and conference sessions of interest to you by visiting the EDUCAUSE Information
Resources Library.\” –Educause.edu
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