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Lunchtime Listen: Meredith Farkas on Open Source and other trends

Well, this is another Lunchtime Watch rather than listen. But you do listen while you watch, don't you? Meredith Farkas was asked to give her top tech trends at LITA's famous trends forum at the American Library Association annual conference. Unfortunately for attendees but fortunately for the rest of us, Meredith couldn't be there in person and is giving her presentation via screencast:

The whole segment is worth watching, but I really want to highlight her first trend - "Open Source for the rest of us". Meredith explains why it's not just for programmers anymore. For those who'd rather read than watch, but miss great screenshots of programs she talks about, she put her script into a blog posting. When you're doing watching Meredith's trends, check out our digital library technologies and remixes pages and start thinking about how YOU can add value to government information and help it keep it safe, accessible and DRM free for our children and our grandchildren. Continue reading

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Lunchtime listen: Cory Doctorow @ google

Technically, this is a lunchtime view :-) Cory Doctorow spoke @ Google on Monday, May 21, 2007. Cory spoke eloquently about copyright, intellectual "property," sci-fi etc. An hour with Cory is always a treat! Continue reading

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Lunchtime Listens: introduction to cooperation studies

Ok, this is probably only a lunchtime listen for those of you on the West coast, but oh well. Howard Rheingold, who wrote "Smart Mobs", has put together a video on "Cooperation studies: A New Story About The Way Humans Get Things Done." Check it out; it's quite fascinating! And on a side note, Howard's hosting the video at Blip.tv, a free video hosting service that's far easier than setting up your own streaming server.

Screencast by Howard Rheingold on "A New Story About The Way Humans Get Things Done," about an interdisciplinary study of cooperation and collective action.
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Disney cutups explain copyright

This is a much-watch video. In a supreme act of irony, Eric Faden, Professor of English and Film Studies of Bucknell University, has just created this amazingly informative review of copyright principles delivered through the words of Disney characters. Nicely done! Here's another mirror. Continue reading

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New govdocs video – Civil Rights

Sarah Gewirtz has created a stunning new government documents video: Extremely well done in my view. If you've seen other documents videos that are not yet listed on our videos page, please send the links our way. Continue reading

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