At about the same time I posted a note on the Berkman Thursday Meetings blog about BloggerCon II, I tried to post that note on this blog. I got a 404 error message from the server and the post didn’t make it to this blog’s front page. The news item is no longer in the [...]
Dave Winer has begun updating the BloggerCon blog with information about the free Saturday, April 17th conference. There’s now information about hotels, a tentative schedule, and more. Stay tuned to that blog for more information about conference activities.
The Campaign for Reader Privacy is an effort by the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association, and the PEN American Center to collect signatures to petition Congress to reinstate safeguards for the privacy of library and bookstore records that section 215 of the USA PATRIOT ACT eliminated. A statement from the organizations gives some [...]
A long time ago, someone asked me about the Library Bill of Rights, so here’s the link. It’s a set of guidelines established by the American Library Association and used by many libraries as a basis for their collections and practices.
I talked about Wikipedia and other wikis when I gave a presentation to a journalism class about two weeks ago. I just had an interesting conversation with someone about its pros and cons. He knew a bit about how it’s run and was able to shed some light on its editorial control, which raised my [...]