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There are no related links this week as there is no miscellany. The President’s weekly address dated December 15th is replayed. A brief message relative to the situation in Connecticut is presented along with readings from Psalms and Ecclesiastes. Lighter fare will air in seven days.

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This week’s program has not one but two features from the United States Department of Agriculture that may prove useful to reference librarians and selectors. In the essay we talk about the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 and how it may bode ill for the Internet not to mention that NPR reports about such as well.

Related links:

• ComputerWorld: Kill switch thrown on Internet in Syria — Amid bloody civil war, communication blackout hits all of country
• Wired: U.N.: We Seek to Bring Internet to All
• International Telecommunications Union: Basic Texts of ITU
• Michael Geist: UN Internet Meeting About Who Pays, Not Who Rules
• National Public Radio: Shutdowns Counter The Idea Of A World-Wide Web
• Steve Kemp: Simple website creation tools
• The Register: Voda fails again: network melts in Melbourne heatwave — ‘Try turning it off and turning it back on again’
• Joe Lambert: Offline First – A better HTML5 User Experience
• Fox 8 News: Boehner ‘Flabbergasted’ at Fiscal Cliff Proposal
• Fox 8 News: Coverage of the Emiliano Terry case
• The Cleveland Plain Dealer: Deadly police chase from Cleveland into East Cleveland brings questions, leaves families sorrowful

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This week’s episode starts off with a brief economic discussion and then heads into a news miscellany. Believe it or not, LISTen has now been around for five years as of this week.

To cheat and spoil the last lines of this episode:

This episode came to you from the south shores of Lake Erie. This program first originated from metro Las Vegas. Where might it come from at this time next year?

Related links:

• Associated Press: Twinkies likely to survive sale of Hostess
• Reuters: Petrified by the fiscal cliff? Relax, it’s just a slope
• Zero Hedge: Intended and Unintended Consequences: The ‘Darden Approach’ to Obamacare
• The Corner at National Review Online: Obamacare Forces Applebee’s New York to Stop Hiring
• Stephen’s Lighthouse: How to kill a library
• On a + note: How to kill a library… #39: 2012
• The Verge: Boxee CEO Avner Ronen: ‘I’m not sure people want everything on demand’
• Daring Fireball: Tweetro, Popular Metro-Style Windows 8 Twitter Client, Hits 100K User Token Wall
• WindowsObserver.com: Tweetro Forced To Pull Their App from Windows Store
• The View From Chaos Manor: eBooks; Benghazi
• TeleRead: In B&N’s closure of Fictionwise, Canadian customers lose big
• Public Libraries News: Make it one to remember: National Libraries Day, Saturday 9th February 2013
• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals: National Libraries Day takes place on Saturday 9 February 2013
• BBC News: Many teenagers ‘can’t read GCSE exam papers’

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This week’s program has a bit of an essay on economic concerns that talks about shooting for "doing less, better" instead of "doing more with less" while also presenting a news miscellany. Reference is also made to a disturbing attack on members of the news media in Oakland, California.

Related links:

• SF Chronicle: Oakland robbers attack TV cameraman
• The Volokh Conspiracy: Stock Market Has Worst Day This Year
• Zero Hedge: Foodstamps Surge By Most In One Year To New All Time Record, In Delayed Release
• Ars Technica: How an Indonesian ISP took down the mighty Google for 30 minutes — Internet’s web of trust let a company you never heard of block your Gmail.
• The Register: Files aren’t property, says US government — New twist in Megaupload case a threat to all clouds, claims EFF
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Megaupload and the Government’s Attack on Cloud Computing
• Library of Congress Public Affairs Office: Library of Congress to Host First International Summit of the Book
• The Verge: Egyptian prosecutor tells government to block online porn
• The Register: Egypt takes hard line on internet pr0n, calls for total ban — EFF warns of more censorship to come
• The Register: China blocks all Google services as new leader anointed — Great Firewall locks down Middle Kingdom
• BBC: Library closures may be unlawful, MPs warn
• The Mirror: Not by the book: Library closures ‘against the law’, say MPs — Such a move could break a legal requirement for ­councils to provide a “comprehensive and efficient” library service
• The Guardian: Library closures may be unlawful, says Commons select committee — Report claims councils may be failing in statutory duty to provide ‘comprehensive and efficient’ service as campaigners’ fears grow
• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals: CILIP response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee Report on Library Closures
• Bilal Akhtar: Using the Raspberry Pi as a web server

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This week’s program refers to internal refugees, has a reading from a work by Robert Heinlein, and brings a news miscellany.

Related links:

• Zero Hedge: Chart Of The Day: America’s Geriatric Work F(a)rce
• IETF Journal: Moving Toward a Censorship-free Internet
• The Register: Where are all the open-source mobile projects? — Beauty of Apple and Android not found on a server
• TeleRead: The Disappearing Market Share of the E-Reader: Is it now a transitioning technology?
• The Verge: Read the full run of ‘Omni’ magazine at the Internet Archive
• Public Libraries News: Inquiry into Library Closures to be published on Tuesday
• The Verge: Disney buys Lucasfilm, plans to release ‘Star Wars: Episode 7’ in 2015 (update)
• National Review Online’s Deroy Murdock: A Tale of Two Cities
• Reuters: Housing crisis looms as storm victims battle cold
• Worldcat.org: For us, the living : a comedy of customs

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Strangely enough, we’ve got a special episode of LISTen to talk about knowledge ecology infrastructure damage caused by that storm named Sandy. The next regular episode is set for release on or near 12:01 AM Eastern on November 5th.

Related links:

• The Register: Quarter of Eastern cell towers BLOWN down BY SANDY – FCC — ‘Save bandwidth, text with a friend’, pleads federal boss

• The Register: New York tech firms form ‘bucket brigade’ to fuel flagging servers — Shifting fuel 17 floors up by hand

• Washington Post: Communications improving slowly after Sandy, regulators say; 1 in 5 cell towers still out

• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Why We Have An Open Wireless Movement — EFF believes open networks are crucial in hurricane-affected areas

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This week’s episode brings discussion of preparing to respond appropriately to Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath as well as a news miscellany.

Related links:

• The Atlantic: Study — Writers Are Twice as Likely to Commit Suicide
• BBC: UN calls to expand internet surveillance
• CNET: U.N. calls for ‘anti-terror’ Internet surveillance
• Ars Technica: Amazon Web Services outage once again shows reality behind "the cloud"
• Library of Congress: Chronicling America Posts 5 Millionth Page — Popular Online Resource Provides Access to Nation’s Historic Newspapers
• CBC News: Online vigilantes — Is ‘doxing’ a neighbourhood watch or dangerous witch hunt?

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This week’s episode brings a news miscellany.

Related links:

• The Register: Majority of humans still don’t have a mobile

• The Consumerist: That Amazon Video You Bought? You May Not Actually Be Able To Watch It

• France24: Twitter may face legal action over anti-Semitic tweets

• CBC News: Twitter removes French-language anti-Semitic tweets

• Techdirt: Google To French Media: We May Have To Cut You Off

• Voices for the Library: Barnet – where “library” is a dirty word

• The Register: ‘Hypersensitive’ Wi-Fi hater loses case against fiendish DEVICES

• WHO: Electromagnetic fields and public health

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This week’s episode mysteriously dispenses with Profile America so that attention can be paid to the matter of Diplomats Dancing in Dubai in December…which is to say, we talk about some ramifications of the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications.

Related links:

• World Conference on International Telecommunications WCIT-12
• The Internet Society: WCIT – Preparations From Around the World
• The Hill: US ambassador–Internet fee proposal gaining momentum
• The Telegraph: Anti-Islam film prompts Saudi call for net censorship body

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