From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 10:06:35 PST
Message-Id: <a06230969bffac98db4f8@[192.168.0.2]> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:06:35 -0800 From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org> Subject: Intersect Alert, February 1, 2006
Library stuff
'Radical librarians' protect rights
Librarians have a long and proud history of keeping watch over the
rights and freedoms of the average American. During the Civil Rights
era, many libraries offered reassurance to patrons with signs that
read "Open to All." That likely seemed radical to some at the time.
For years, librarians have spoken out against those who have banned
or burned books, and voiced their concern about ways in which
censorship impacts an open society.
http://fbnewsleader.com/articles/2006/01/13/opinion/01editvptlibrary.txt
University of Memphis runs out of book money
Just half-way through the school year, The University of Memphis
library is out of book money. The library's budget for the fiscal
year was $155,000.
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?s=4437075
Multitasking Drives Workers to Distraction
Endless Interruption by Cell Phones, Instant Messages, E-mail Slows
Productivity
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/story?id=1549972
Government
Congressional staffers make more than 1,000 changes to Wikipedia
Staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken
term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war
chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web
site that bills itself as the "world's largest encyclopedia
http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_3444567
Orwellian
US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document
takes on an extraordinary tone. It seems to see the internet as being
equivalent to an enemy weapons system. "Strategy should be based on
the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as
it would an enemy weapons system," it reads.The slogan "fight the
net" appears several times throughout the roadmap. The authors warn
that US networks are very vulnerable to attack by hackers, enemies
seeking to disable them, or spies looking for intelligence. "Networks
are growing faster than we can defend them... Attack sophistication
is increasing... Number of events is increasing."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
NSA explains how to redact documents electronically (pdf)
Report # I333-015R-2005
Date 12/13/2005
"Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish
Sanitized Reports Converted From Word to PDF"
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/nsa-redact.pdf
City [and library] demands warrant in FBI investigation
Law enforcement and Newton Free Library officials were embroiled in a
tense standoff for nearly 10 hours last week when the city refused to
let police and the FBI examine library computers without a warrant.
http://www2.townonline.com/newton/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=414573&format=text
A Picture Says 1000 Words About Google's Censorship In China
Plenty are writing and writing about Google's agreement to censor
results for China. But pictures perhaps better illustrate the
differences that Google now endorses. Google Images Censors Too in
China from Google Blogoscoped shows you how a search for [tiananmen
square] on Google Images China provides happy scenes while over at
uncensored Google Images, there are tanks rolling in.
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060130-080248
Terror in the Stacks :-D
Coded language: librarians communicate through a series of numbers
that communicate exactly what subject they are speaking about. For
instance, "539.7" is code for "Atomic and nuclear physics," "956.9"
means "Iraq", and "297" means "Islam." While we have been unable to
completely crack this code, we have a team of Navajo Indians working
on it.
http://cjsd.blogspot.com/2005/12/terror-in-stacks.html
Patriot Search :-D
Whether you are a normal searcher, someone trying to download illegal
material, a terrorist looking to build a bomb, or just hunting porn,
we at Patriot Search welcome you! Our mission is to provide the best
possible search engine to you while at the same time, making sure the
government is informed should you search for something obscure,
illegal, or unpatriotic.
http://blog.outer-court.com/patriot/mission.html
Information Commons
CLOCKSS - Controlled Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
CLOCKSS content or the "orphaned content" would only become available after a
"trigger" event, such as the material was no longer available from
the publisher. In these situations, a joint advisory board,
representing societies, publishers and libraries, will begin the
process to determine if the content is orphaned and whether it should
be made publicly available. The board ensures that content is
controlled but that no one person or sector has authority over
orphaned digitalmaterials in the system.
http://www.lockss.org/clockss/
Vatican 'cashes in' by putting price on the Pope's copyright
For the first time all papal documents, including encyclicals, will
be governed by copyright invested in the official Vatican publishing
house, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2c%2c13509-2005615%2c00.html
Big Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yet
The post points to broadcast flag draft legislation sponsored by
Senator Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) that contains provisions which appear
to limit digital broadcast media reception devices to "customary
historic use of broadcast content by consumers to the extent such use
is consistent with applicable law and that prevents redistribution of
copyrighted content over digital networks." In other words, if it
does anything heretofore unheard of with the digital content that it
receives, then it's illegal. And if it does anything "customary" that
could also possibly lead to unauthorized redistribution, then it's
also illegal. So all the bases are covered!
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060121-6025.html
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