LISNews

As usual, I forgot! 20 years ago on Nov 2nd I brought LISNews online.

I can’t possibly thank everyone who has helped LISNews over the past 20 years. Steve Glabraith, Steven M Cohen & Nabeal Ahmed, were all instrumental in helping me during the early years (when I needed it most!).

We also had a few authors that posted like bloggers possessed and are still with us, BIRDIE especially, and Ieleene, Aaron, Rochelle, and a few other authors who helped out for awhile and moved on. Behind the scenes Joe Frazee helped me get the original LISNews server up and running. Over the years a few dedicated souls have tirelessly submitted stories; Bob Cox, Martin, Lee Hadden, Charles Davis, and many others. Stephen Kellat, for the podcast, Robin, Troy, Andy, Dan and all the LISNews authors deserve a big thank you and a pat on the back for all their hard work. LISNews is a collaborative site, and we all work together to make it great.

I’d also like to thank everyone who has ever chipped in to pay for the server, submitted a story, wrote in their journal, left a comment, or just dropped by for a visit.

Happy Birthday LISNews. Here’s hoping we have a few more good years ahead of us!

If you’re reading this you’re seeing LISNews on a new server and a new version of Drupal.

I finally spent some time moving LISNews from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 this weekend… what a mess that was! Long story short, the Drupal DB that runs LISNews was a total disaster and was almost unusable.

There’s some pretty important things still missing, like all the old podcasts and images, but I’ll have those moved soon.

If you spot anything missing or broken or something like:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /whatever/ on this server.


Please do Let Me Know!

This week’s program is presented by owner/engineer Mike Kellat as the usual presenter is away.

Related links:

• UK National Libraries Day
• Jessamyn West: Should it be okay to sue librarians for saying your books are bad?

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This week’s episode talks about the ethics of information handling, promulgates a reading of a new open source license that could be used in LIS realm software projects, and provides a brief news miscellany.

Related links:

• Associated Press: Ohio judge weighs whether to keep rape trial open
• Reuters: Lawyer for accused Ohio rapist blames online group for notoriety
• copyleft-next
• The text of copyleft-next 0.1.0 as presented
• France24: France orders Twitter to identify racist users
• Scott Ott, a local Republican politician in eastern Pennsylvania
• PJ Tatler: Government-Approved Islam Books Coming to Library Near You
• British sociologist Dr. Tiffany Jenkins
• The Scotsman: Tiffany Jenkins — Libraries are on a slippery pole
• Censored Genius: Libraries, Chasing the 1%

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This week’s episode looks around the LISHost galaxy while looking at some ambiguous information in a speculative manner.

Related links:

• LISWire: Worch Memorial Public Library Joins COOL and Goes Live on Evergreen
• Pwnie Express: Pwn Plug Elite
• Wired: The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network
• The Verge: Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity
• CNET: WikiLeaks says Aaron Swartz may have been a ‘source’
• The Guardian: Libraries crisis set to get ‘much worse’ this year
• Galileo 0.012 released!

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This week’s program deals with Wikipedia hoaxing, an Internet icon, and a miscellany of brief items.

Related links:

• The Daily Mail: The war that never was: Most elaborate Wikipedia hoax ever as 4,500 word article on ‘Bicholim Conflict’ – a fictitious fight for Goan independence – fooled site for FIVE YEARS
• Yahoo News: War is over: Imaginary ‘Bicholim Conflict’ page removed from Wikipedia after five years
• PC World: Fake Wikipedia entry on Bicholim Conflict finally deleted after five years
• The Register: Anger grows over the death of Aaron Swartz — Internet prodigy hounded to suicide claims family
• Althouse: "Prosecutor as bully."
• Threat Level: Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26
• EFF Deeplinks: Farewell to Aaron Swartz, an Extraordinary Hacker and Activist
• Reuters: Internet activist, programmer Aaron Swartz dead at 26
• BoingBoing: RIP, Aaron Swartz
• PCMag.com: Family of Aaron Swartz Blames U.S. Attorney’s Office in Statement
• Legal Insurrection: Sad irony in Aaron Swartz case
• Patterico’s Pontifications: EXCLUSIVE: Attorney for Aaron Swartz: Prosecutors’ Arguments Were “Disingenuous and Contrived”
• New York Times: Failing to Close the ‘Digital Divide’
• It’s Not About the Books: Mission creep – a 3D printer will not save your library
• PCMag.com: FCC Chairman Wants to Ease Wi-Fi Congestion
• The Verge: JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library
• Public Libraries News: Discovery, warmth, knowledge, dreams, welcoming … what’s your five words to describe public libraries?
• Voices for the Library: Concern over loss of Arts Council England Libraries post
• Megan McCardle: Is Barnes and Noble Next?

Download here (MP3) (Ogg Vorbis), or subscribe to the podcast (MP3) to have episodes delivered to your media player. We suggest subscribing by way of a service like gpodder.net. The list of hardware sought to replace our ever-increasing damage control report can be found here and can be directly purchased and sent to assist The Air Staff in rebuilding to a more normal operations capability.

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The tag line for this week’s episode: "Information As Weapon"

We’ve got a bit of an essay talking about that in connection with an awful case in Ohio. Information might want to be free, but couldn’t it also be used as a weapon?

There’s no miscellany this week as we thought that that would be enough to consider within the realm of preserving the knowledge ecology.

Related links:

• The Register: Anonymous turns private eye in Ohio rape case — Releases purloined data after hacking attack
• The Plain Dealer: Protest over investigation of suspected rape turns spotlight on Steubenville
• WJW Fox8: Masked Protesters Storm Steubenville
• The Atlantic Wire: Inside the Anonymous Hacking File on the Steubenville ‘Rape Crew’
• New York Times: Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City
• NewsNet5: National criticism on Steubenville rape case prompts website creation
• National Post: Matt Gurney — Anonymous bullies the wrong (presumed) Amanda Todd bully
• Slate: Did Anonymous Unmask the Wrong Guy in Its Hunt for the Man Who Allegedly Drove a Teen to Suicide?
• The Globe and Mail: RCMP dismiss online rumour about Amanda Todd’s tormentor
• arXiv: How Much of the Web Is Archived?

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There is an opportunity available to purchase material goods to replace some of the hardware that has died at Erie Looking Productions over the past three weeks.

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This week’s program episode falls on Christmas Eve. Except for the installment of Profile America for 24 December 2012, no formal content is presented. An episode of "GI Jive" is liberated from the virtual vaults of Archive.org for presentation as well as anthems of the various armed services. This constitutes the final regular episode of 2012.

NEXT WEEK the production team is taking part in the "Joint New Year’s Eve Special" that will be airing on WBCQ The Planet at 7 PM Eastern/Midnight UTC with special guests such as the team behind the Ubuntu UK Podcast. The show will be a bit of a variety of content that will include Linux, dramatic readings, music, and a little library & information science. The radio broadcast will be released on the podcast feed after it concludes airing on WBCQ. As the broadcast is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License you are encouraged to record it off-air and re-distribute it online and on physical media. The producer at Erie Looking Productions, Gloria D. Kellat, is coordinating the air talent for this show.

Download here (MP3) (Ogg Vorbis), or subscribe to the podcast (MP3) to have episodes delivered to your media player. We suggest subscribing by way of a service like gpodder.net. Especially in light of unanticipated equipment destruction at our principal operations site this past week, gifts of replacement equipment identified here can be purchaed via Amazon and shipped to the crew for use.

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