Folks at the blog group tipped me off to Defective by Design’s call for protest at libraries on Saturday, Feburary 9. Organizers are angered by the use of digital rights management (DRM) tools in libraries and plan to gather at the Boston Public Library’s main branch in Copley Square from 1-3 p.
"The Boston Public Library […]
The Alternative Search Engines Blog “covers the cutting edge of alternative and niche search engines”:
http://altsearchengines.com/
There’s a Top 100 Alternative Search Engines Feb 2008 list:
http://tinyurl.com/2dkal9
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The Feb 1 issue of the Salem(MA) News had an article called “Libraries sound death knell for books on cassette.”
http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_032003042.html
“The cassette tape — once the preferred medium for car tunes and underground ’80s punk rock — had been living out a modest retirement, working occasionally in libraries as audiobooks.
Now, newer, flashier media like downloadable books, […]
The Knight Citizen News Network has posted an excellent guide called “Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive:
A digital literacy guide for the information age” by Mark Briggs:
http://www.kcnn.org/resources/journalism_20/
Briggs also has a companion weblog called Journalism 2.0:
http://www.j-learning.org/briggs_blog
Link via LISNews:
http://www.lisnews.org/
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The Boston Globe tells us how Jeff Kiernan, the new news director for CBS affiliate WBZ, has changed the station’s newscasts to improve their ratings and the challenges of keeping the station’s rank.
The Boston Globe has a gallery featuring New England bookstores, including a photo of the Montague Bookmill—books you don’t need in a place you can’t find (or something like that). Time your trip to Montague just right and you might as well go to the contradance in Greenfield.
When people learn the name of my employer, the next set of questions almost always has to do with what it is Renesys does. A few days ago, two major telecommunications cables in the Middle East broke, impeding Internet access and phone calls. Two of my coworkers have been talking to lots of folks in […]