Doonesbury.com\’s / strip
/ daily dose
Sunday\’s
Strip takes on plagiarism.
Hermit
OJR.org: “Censorship Wins Out.”
\”Censorship
Wins Out: Many journalists and activists have
brought their struggle for democracy to the Internet but plenty of nasty
regimes have learned to control the Net for their purposes.\” … \”Despite
the theory behind the Internet\’s built-in anti-censorship architecture,
official control is actually very possible in practice, especially as the
regimes run the telecommunications infrastructure when the country comes
online.\” -By Andrew Stroehlein –OJR.org
LISNews Keywords:
censorship
/ civil_liberties
/ free_speech
/ law
/ legal
/ libert*
/ net
/ online
/ web
–Hermit
:-X
April’s National Poetry Month.
Poets.org / National
Poetry Month
( The Academy of American Poets )
Twenty days past due
Enlightenment sudden clear
Poetry months here.
Poet News
[AllTheWeb]
[Daypop]
[RocketNews]
\”Oscar-Winning
Actress [Kathy Bates] to Present Nation\’s Largest Prize for Single Book
of Poetry [The Tether -by Carl Phillips]; $100,000 Award to Be Given
by Claremont Graduate University.\” –AScribe.org
\”Diplomat
censured over bomb poem.\” … \”The Saudi Arabian ambassador to the
UK faces censure from the British government after writing a poem in praise
of Palestinian suicide bombers.\” –BBC
/News
\”Northern
[Britain] poet wins largest literary prize.\” \”Anne Stevenson, 69, won
the first £60,000 Northern Rock Foundation Writer Award, set up by
the Newcastle-based bank for writers resident in the north-east.\”
-By Angelique Chrisafis –Guardian.co.uk
Anne
Stevenson\’s thoughtful response was one
of many to the PoetrySociety.org\’s
\’99 survey: \”What\’s American About American Poetry?\”
Reference
Bartleby.com\’s verse,
\”thousands of poems by hundreds of authors,\” includes Emily
Dickinson\’s Complete Poems
[1924]. The full text of \”597 poems of the Belle of Amherst,
whose life of the Imagination formed the transcendental bridge to modern
American poetry,\” may be searched, for example: Search
Results for \”love\”.
LISNews Keywords:
poems / poet*
/ poetry
Poets.org / National
Poetry Month
( The Academy of American Poets )
Twenty days past due
Enlightenment sudden clear
Poetry months here.
Poet News
[AllTheWeb]
[Daypop]
[RocketNews]
\”Oscar-Winning
Actress [Kathy Bates] to Present Nation\’s Largest Prize for Single Book
of Poetry [The Tether -by Carl Phillips]; $100,000 Award to Be Given
by Claremont Graduate University.\” –AScribe.org
\”Diplomat
censured over bomb poem.\” … \”The Saudi Arabian ambassador to the
UK faces censure from the British government after writing a poem in praise
of Palestinian suicide bombers.\” –BBC
/News
\”Northern
[Britain] poet wins largest literary prize.\” \”Anne Stevenson, 69, won
the first £60,000 Northern Rock Foundation Writer Award, set up by
the Newcastle-based bank for writers resident in the north-east.\”
-By Angelique Chrisafis –Guardian.co.uk
Anne
Stevenson\’s thoughtful response was one
of many to the PoetrySociety.org\’s
\’99 survey: \”What\’s American About American Poetry?\”
Reference
Bartleby.com\’s verse,
\”thousands of poems by hundreds of authors,\” includes Emily
Dickinson\’s Complete Poems
[1924]. The full text of \”597 poems of the Belle of Amherst,
whose life of the Imagination formed the transcendental bridge to modern
American poetry,\” may be searched, for example: Search
Results for \”love\”.
LISNews Keywords:
poems / poet*
/ poetryGoogle searches:
>poetry
>poem >poems
>National
Poetry Month
–>2nd hit: \”Against
National Poetry Month As Such.\” -By Charles Berstein
>haiku
form
–>1st hit: \”How
to decrypt a DVD: in haiku form.\”
> \”April
is the cruelest month\” Elliot
Amazon.com’s Used Book Controversy Response: Grassroot or Astroturf?
While Bezos claims Amazon\’s used book sales \”lead to higher sales of new
books\” [LISNews: \”Bezos
Bites Back.\”], and Authors Guild\’s Aiken responds, \”We don\’t assert
all used book sales hurt the industry. We say that Amazon\’s particular
way of marketing used books is harmful for authors and for publishers,\”
AP reporter, Hillel Italie, points out that \”neither side has produced
numbers backing its argument.\”
\”Amazon
chief defends sale of used books.\” -By Hillel
Italie –AP
via –NandoTimes
Now if only there were a giant database keeping track of all those sales
so that Bezos could clearly show how recent releases are actually helped
by offering them side by side with used copies for a fraction of the price…
/sarcasm: off
Microsoft withdraws Ebook award funding for Frankfurt Book Fair.
From the books.Guardian.co.uk/ebooks
over the top headline: \”Microsoft
deals blow to ebooks.\”
From the International eBook Award Foundation
[iebaf.org] website:
\”NEW YORK, NY, April 17, 2002 – The International
eBook Award Foundation (IeBAF), creator of the Frankfurt eBook Award, announced
today that due to the current business environment, it would discontinue
the annual award and suspend all activities relating to the Foundation.
Therefore, effective April 30, 2002, the Board will resign.\”
The IeBAF\’s \”Children\’s eBook
Award\” was presented April 10, 2002 at Italy\’s \’Bologna Book Fair.\”
The winners included,
\”My
First Internet Manual\” [google] in Italian.
CNN: “Career vs. baby book sparks controversy.”
Books spark controversies ?-)
If CNN.com hadn\’t told me it was a controversy I would have missed
it completely…
Google
Search: \”Creating a Life.\” Hewlett Google\’s got gobs of current
news article\’s about the book.
Professor’s Plagiarism of Grad’s Research Led to Lawsuit.
The Chronicle\’s investigation unearthed a lot of evidence that a Cornell
professor repeatedly took credit for research done by a graduate student.
The school\’s investigator called it \”\”permissible academic entrepreneurial
behavior.\”\” The student feels she\’s had her \”\”life destroyed by a
thief.\”\”
\”After
a professor took credit for a graduate student\’s research, Cornell found
little amiss.\” … \”interviews with Ms. Demas [the grad student], her
professors, and Cornell officials, as well as a review of hundreds of pages
of court records, correspondence, and other documents, paint a stark case
of academic misappropriation.\” -By Scott Smallwood
–Chronicle/free
LISNews Keywords:
plagiarism
-|- plagiarize
–Hermit :-!
Reading and Writing on Sci-Fi Computer Screens.
Despite an enduring love for paper, most of my reading these days is done
on computer screens. The sci-fi computer screen of tomorrow teases
my imagination. Hold it, bend it, maybe even turn it\’s pages?
Mark it up, then save your highlighting and notes right (write?-) on the
computer screen, and then with a magic shake, like an old etch-a-sketch,
make all your notes disappear so you can read the original document, yet
still have those notes saved somewhere in the ether?
\”Sneak
Peek: The Computer Screen of the Future,\” from NewsFactor.com
looks at LEP, light-emitting
polymer [google], that \”because it can be made on flexible plastic
substrates, it not only could be extremely difficult to break, but also
could be molded into different shapes and contours.\”
ZDNet\’s \”Are
we ready for digital paper,\” takes a look at a pen
and paper combo that copies what\’s written as a digital picture.
E-Ink [google]
has had a lot of investment and technological advancements the past few
years from various corporations and is promising to be a viable paper-like
[google] reading experience.
LISNews:->Keywords:
book, digital
books, E-Ink.
>Archives: \”New
Video Screen Is Like Paper.\” \”SCREEN
OR PAGE?\”
Despite an enduring love for paper, most of my reading these days is done
on computer screens. The sci-fi computer screen of tomorrow teases
my imagination. Hold it, bend it, maybe even turn it\’s pages?
Mark it up, then save your highlighting and notes right (write?-) on the
computer screen, and then with a magic shake, like an old etch-a-sketch,
make all your notes disappear so you can read the original document, yet
still have those notes saved somewhere in the ether?
\”Sneak
Peek: The Computer Screen of the Future,\” from NewsFactor.com
looks at LEP, light-emitting
polymer [google], that \”because it can be made on flexible plastic
substrates, it not only could be extremely difficult to break, but also
could be molded into different shapes and contours.\”
ZDNet\’s \”Are
we ready for digital paper,\” takes a look at a pen
and paper combo that copies what\’s written as a digital picture.
E-Ink [google]
has had a lot of investment and technological advancements the past few
years from various corporations and is promising to be a viable paper-like
[google] reading experience.
LISNews:->Keywords:
book, digital
books, E-Ink.
>Archives: \”New
Video Screen Is Like Paper.\” \”SCREEN
OR PAGE?\”
It\’s not either-or.
Some bibliophiles
[m-w] may revolt at the digital book incursion, but other bibliophiles
will simply add additional \’qualities of format\’ to their list of ways
to love text.
For example, I often use the full version of Adobe
Acrobat [Google: Sklyarov] to read web pages. With it I can mark
up the pages I\’m reading with highlighting, underlining, and notes and
then save the page to read later. Not only can I read the article
offline, but it\’s available even after the page \’falls off the net\’.
An added bonus is that opening up web pages in acrobat eliminates all
the bouncing / moving advertisements that distract and annoy. Companies
that don\’t want their pages saved this way can make them inaccessible to
acrobat.
Appreciating the versatility of electronic media doesn\’t mean I\’ll ever
completely turn in my pulp for pixels, but I love having options.
LISNews Keyword Access Points: Preset Searches.
academic
/ Afghanistan
/ almanac /
Archive.org
/ bookmark
/ book / bookmobile
/ brain / business
/ catalog /
censorship
/ Bush / Cheney
/ civil_liberties
/ comic /
comics
/ controlled_vocabulary
/ cyborg / dictionar*
/ digital
books / E-Ink
/ educat* / encyclopedia
/ film
/ first_amendment
/ FOIA / free_speech
/ Giuliani
/ google
/ Gutenberg
/ heart /
Hermit
/ histor* / history
/ historical
/ keyword /
Korean
/ labor / labour
/
law
– legal
/ libert*
/ love / media
/ mind / money
/ Moore / movie
/ net
– web
– online
/ civil_liberties
/ law–
legal
/ medical
/ medicine
/ parent
/ plagiarism
/ plagiarize
/ precision
/ psy / public
record / publish
/ quirky
/ reference
/ Russia
/ Saklad
/ schema / semantic
/ sex / Taliban
/ Tasini / thesaurus
/
academic
/ Afghanistan
/ almanac /
Archive.org
/ bookmark
/ book / bookmobile
/ brain / business
/ catalog /
censorship
/ Bush / Cheney
/ civil_liberties
/ comic /
comics
/ controlled_vocabulary
/ cyborg / dictionar*
/ digital
books / E-Ink
/ educat* / encyclopedia
/ film
/ first_amendment
/ FOIA / free_speech
/ Giuliani
/ google
/ Gutenberg
/ heart /
Hermit
/ histor* / history
/ historical
/ keyword /
Korean
/ labor / labour
/
law
– legal
/ libert*
/ love / media
/ mind / money
/ Moore / movie
/ net
– web
– online
/ civil_liberties
/ law–
legal
/ medical
/ medicine
/ parent
/ plagiarism
/ plagiarize
/ precision
/ psy / public
record / publish
/ quirky
/ reference
/ Russia
/ Saklad
/ schema / semantic
/ sex / Taliban
/ Tasini / thesaurus
/ Some of the searches had interesting results.
Some returned far fewer results than I expected, others far more.
I\’ll add to this over time. Any suggestions?
Example, clustering the Keywords:
* = indicates a truncated word. Example: dictionar*
brings up both dictonary and dictionaries.
Giuliani’s Mayoral Papers Private Status Contested.
Some of public
servant Giuliani\’s mayoral papers are being declared \’private.\’ NY
State\’s Committee
on Open Government director, Robert Freeman, believes this isn\’t
in accordance with NY\’s Freedom Of Information Law. \”No document
or record that had been or is now maintained by any agency of City government
may in my opinion be characterized as \’private\’ or \’belonging to\’ the former
mayor or any other person,\” director Freeman explains in an advisory opinion
written in response to an AP request. \”Giuliani
Records Deal Questioned.\” -By Diego Ibarguen -AP via -FindLaw 2002/02/28
New
policies, however may foil NY\’s FOIL.
LISNews keywords: FOIA
-|- Giuliani.-|-
public
record -|- saklad
Some of public
servant Giuliani\’s mayoral papers are being declared \’private.\’ NY
State\’s Committee
on Open Government director, Robert Freeman, believes this isn\’t
in accordance with NY\’s Freedom Of Information Law. \”No document
or record that had been or is now maintained by any agency of City government
may in my opinion be characterized as \’private\’ or \’belonging to\’ the former
mayor or any other person,\” director Freeman explains in an advisory opinion
written in response to an AP request. \”Giuliani
Records Deal Questioned.\” -By Diego Ibarguen -AP via -FindLaw 2002/02/28
New
policies, however may foil NY\’s FOIL.
LISNews keywords: FOIA
-|- Giuliani.-|-
public
record -|- saklad
Advocacy
– The Director of the \”Gotham Center for New York City History,\” Mike Wallace,
has an e-petition, \”Petition
to Keep Former Mayor Giuliani\’s Official Papers Public,\” available
to be \’e-signed\’ for those that endorse the New York Times Editorial, \”City
Papers Belong to the Public\” (20020126),
reproduced at the e-petition\’s page.
–GothamCenter.org
20020126
Editorial –
\”City Papers Belong to
the Public.\” … \”The idea of a high elected official controlling his
own documents troubles many historians, archivists and journalists, harking
back to the days when Richard Nixon left the White House with truckloads
of papers and tapes.\” … \”Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has defended the
contract, must rethink his position. The mayor has the right to cancel
the agreement within 90 days. He should do so unless Mr. Giuliani is willing
to renegotiate.\” –NYTimes
via –GothamCenter.org
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