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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In concert with the team behind the Ubuntu UK Podcast, the Air Staff at Erie Looking Productions presented via WBCQ a New Year's Eve special broadcast via shortwave radio. Now that the show has finished being broadcast, it is being made available for download.

Download here (MP3). You can subscribe to the podcast (MP3) to have episodes delivered to your media player. We suggest subscribing by way of a service like gpodder.net. Stephen's shopping list of items to replace hardware damaged and destroyed due to adverse circumstances over the past week, which includes requiring replacement of our dead in-house server with a lower-powered Raspberry Pi at this point, can be found here where direct purchasing is possible to send the items directly to the Air Staff.

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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.

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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 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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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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This week's episode brings a discussion of the infamous Case Omega that deals with freedoms being extinguished online, a segment-sized edition of the infamous Tech for Techies talking about the joys of teleprompters, and a news miscellany.

Related links:

• CBS News: Facebook's "like" may land Filipinos in jail
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Cleansing the Internet of Terrorism: EU-Funded Project Seeks To Erode Civil Liberties
• Zero Hedge: US Foodstamp Usage Rises To New Record High
• InstaPundit on the five dollar per gallon gasoline charge ceiling
• The Atlantic Wire: Hacktivist's Advocate: Meet the Lawyer Who Defends Anonymous
• Robert Stacy McCain: Douchebag Lawyer Defends Denial of Service (DDOS) Attacks as ‘Free Speech’
• Petter Reinholdtsen: Why is your local library collecting the "wrong" computer books?
• Tim Retout's www presence: The Library - a challenge
• Karen Coyle: Google and publishers settle
• Danger Room: Not From the Onion -- Army Says ‘Social Network’ Use Is a Sign of Radicalism

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This week's episode features a chat with Dan Lynch of Sixgun Productions in Liverpool about changes in the UK library world relative to the UK government reviewing the possibility of e-book lending there. Madam Producer also discusses a new report by Freedom House about Internet Freedom in the context of this week being Banned Books Week.

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This week's episode is hurriedly uploaded as Time Warner Cable suffered a regional outage immediately after we concluded recording. Contingency plans began executing until access came back up. Infrastructure along Lake Erie's south shore should not provide as much excitement as it does when it fails.

This week's episode provides a brief follow-up to last week and presents a news miscellany. It is specifically noted in the program that the Air Staff is currently best reached by hitting the contact form and selecting podcast producers instead of via comments left on LISNews. At the least we know e-mails sent via the contact form will forward to team member cell phones.

Related links:

• librarian.net » Blog Archive » How not to write about libraries – some guidelines for reporters
• Losing My Revolution: How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost?
• Conflict-of-interest scandal could imperil Wikimedia charity status • The Register
• Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia - CNET Mobile
• Kindles are shown the automatic sliding door at Walmart -- Ars Technica
• My vision for public libraries -- PublicLibrariesNews.com
• The shape of the internet has changed: It now lives life on the edge
• Stanford launches Class2Go, an open-source platform for online classes
• Is a computer science degree worth the paper it's printed on? -- Application Development - InfoWorld

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This week's episode is jointly numbered with Ubuntu Ohio -- Burning Circle and speaks to a situation that arose over the last week in North Africa.

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