From: Daniel Holmes (dholmes@sierranevada.org)
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 22:57:50 PST
Message-ID: <20060202065750.81083.qmail@web36512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 22:57:50 -0800 (PST) From: Daniel Holmes <dholmes@sierranevada.org> Subject: Re: SLA-SF Digest #973 - 02/02/06
Fascism seems alive and well in America.
--- SLA/SF Listserv <SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu> wrote:
> SLA-SF Digest #973 - Thursday, February 2, 2006
>
> Intersect Alert, February 1, 2006
> by "Michele McGinnis" <mm@kk.org>
>
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> Subject: Intersect Alert, February 1, 2006
> From: "Michele McGinnis" <mm@kk.org>
> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:06:35 -0800
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> 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!
>
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