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)
NLM’s document conversion tools aid exchange, use, preservation of digital information
Do you ever get a WordPerfect document and can't even read it? How about a .PCX or .PGM or .PNG file? These tools from the National Library of Medicine may be of interest to you! They help you convert over 50 file formats.
Electronic Document Conversion National Library of MedicineThe U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) document conversion tools make the exchange and use of biomedical library electronic information easier for librarians, library users, and the general public. The DocMorph Web site and MyMorph software are two free conversion tools that allow users to convert more than 50 types of files into alternative, usable formats. The DocMorph Web site allows users to convert files into PDF, TIFF, text, and synthesized speech. The downloadable MyMorph software allows users to mass migrate files to PDF only.Continue reading
New Report: Government Secrecy vs. Freedom of the Press
The First Amendment Center announced on Thursday, January 25, 2007, a new "First Report" by University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey R. Stone. The report, Government Secrecy vs. Freedom of the Press, is available online. Continue reading