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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #182

Submitted by StephenK on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 00:18
Topic
LISNews
Internet
International
LISNews Features
LISNews Netcast Network
LISTen
Tech for Techies
LNN Experimental
This week's episode brings a segment-sized version of the infamous Tech for Techies as well as an essay looking at the legislative steps for the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act and how there may yet be other points at which the bill could be killed. Direct download link: MP3

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LISNews Hits 40,000 Posts and Turns 12 Years Old

Submitted by Blake on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 09:17
Topic
LISNews
Announcements

40,000!!!

As usual, I forgot LISNews' birthday a few weeks ago, but LISNews turned 12 (NOT 11 you dummy) years old this month, and just now rolled over 40,000 posts. If you've been around for awhile you already know the rest of the story, if not, I'll spare you the details because you won't read them anyways. Every year I try to thank everyone who has helped LISNews over these many years. Steve Glabraith, Steven M Cohen & Nabeal Ahmed, were all instrumental in helping me during the early years (when I needed it most!).

Alternative Paradigms of Access

Submitted by StephenK on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 22:42
Topic
LISNews
Internet
Information Retrieval
Electronic Publications
Editorial
LISNews Features
LISNews Netcast Network
LISTen
LNN Experimental
Do you know how many ways you can keep up with LISNews outside the paradigm of a browser? There is an e-mail digest of posts you can subscribe to if you so choose. Thanks to the magic of Twitter and SMS short codes, you can get updates sent to your mobile device as text messages when new posts are made. You don't even need to be a registered user of Twitter to do this. To get updates on your phone, send the following to 40404: FOLLOW lisnews For readers outside the United States, a list of codes to send that command to can be found here. RSS can give you feeds in an appropriate reader. Plugging http://lisnews.org/rss.xml into your RSS reader will let you receive posts outside the browser. A variety of feed readers are available and we can recommend tools like liferea and newsbeuter. If you have a Kindle, you can also receive LISNews posts by way of the magic transport layer known as WhisperSync. Access via Amazon is available at a nominal cost. Nobody will see any revenue from that before the heat death of the universe. If clicking around in a browser isn't your favored starting point, other avenues do exist to try.

R. David Lankes – The Atlas of New Librarianship

Submitted by smatthews on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 14:25
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Lankes, R. (2011). The atlas of new librarianship. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. R. David Lankes is Associate Professor in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and Director of its Library and Information Science Program. His main theme throughout the book is a new mission for librarians – "The Mission of Librarians is to improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities."

Programming Advisory

Submitted by StephenK on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 23:12
Topic
LISNews
LISNews Features
LISNews Netcast Network
LISTen
LNN Experimental

NOTICE

Erie Looking Productions will not release new programming this weekend in light of Hurricane Irene's impending approach to the eastern coast of North America.

The potential for systems disruption impacting such a large portion of the United States population is something we must bear in mind. We remember the lessons of the 2003 regional outage that included us in an outage area that encompassed much of the northeastern United States as well as a major portion of the Province of Ontario.

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