Thanks Info-to-Go! / InfoTubies
My workplace subscribes to the Info-to-Go electronic "new web sites" newsletter. I was very happy to see that the January 2007 issue issue carried mention of our videos page. Subscribers can see what I'm talking about. Nonsubscribers will have to trust me on this one. Thanks Info-to-Go! If you or your library has produced a video promoting or celebrating government publications, information or e-government available at your library, please send us the link so we can add it to our video page. If you really like one of the videos featured on the page, please consider nominating it for Information Today's first InfoTubies award. Continue reading
Rockefeller: I Don’t Trust What They’re Doing
Jeff Bliss reported for Bloomberg on Friday, January 26, 2007, that Senator Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee may subpoena Bush administration documents related to domestic surveillance. I don't trust what they're doing, Rockefeller said in an interview on taped for Political Capital, a weekly 30 minute Bloomberg television program on politics, economics and public policy hosted by Al Hunt. The full story, Rockefeller Says He May Subpoena Documents on Spying is available online. Read the related story Review of prewar Iraq intelligence: Senate Requests, White House does not reply posted by James Jacobs. Continue reading
James’ open tabs 1/26/07
It's been one of those crazy weeks with lots going on. So rather than blog all the things that I had planned to blog about this week (and last week while in Seattle for ALA!), here's the list of open tabs on my browser. Ahhhhh, I feel better now :-)
- Sloan Foundation funds "open" alternative to Google Book Search [Shoutout to Rick Prelinger!]
- Copyright, DRM Technologies, and Consumer Protection March 9 & 10, 2007 ~ University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
- The Daily We: Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy?. article by Cass R. Sunstein
- Why reference and authority matter [Thanks jessamyn!]
- GODORT's new wiki!. Try it, you'll like it!!
- How to disable Google personalized search. For you privacy nuts...er...concerned folks out there.
- Jake Appelbaum lecture on anonymous communication. And another for the privacy-concerned.
- WIPO anti-podcasting treaty refuses to die
- BoingBoingBoing podcast 9: Matt Haughey of MeFi
- Sen. "Series of Tubes" Stevens introduces DOPA II: the sequel
Review of prewar Iraq intelligence: Senate Requests, White House does not reply
NCH Washington Update (Vol. 13, #3; January 27, 2007) "Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) Meets" by Lee White, National Coalition for History.
Chairman Snider stated that the PIDB had received a request from the Senate Intelligence Committee last fall to review the classification of prewar Iraq intelligence. Snider stated that the PIDB was prohibited from taking action without prior approval of the White House. However, despite requests to the Bush administration to move forward, the board had received no response from the White House. Snider announced that the board was going to proceed unless told not to do so by the administration.Continue reading
More State of the Union Mashups
As we reported the other day (Remixes, Mashups in the news) there are several sites that have online tools for visualizing word use in the State of the Union speeches. Here are two more, one by Jason Giffey who is a librarian at University of Tennessee - Chattanooga.
- State of the Union Project by Brad Borevitz at onetwothree.net
- Tag Cloud for 2007 State of the Union, by Jason Griffey, Pattern Recognition (January 24th, 2007)