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Coping with CIPA

Walt just reminded that I didn’t finish his Coping with CIPA: A Censorware Special that I started earlier. He takes a much more serious look at the issue then the post below. Required reading.

Tables for Web Design

I just got a new FrontPage Newsletter from Microsoft and it has this wonderful cutting-edge article explaining how to use that recent HTML innovation, tables, in web design. Be sure and check the copyright date. Stop the insanity.

Open Souce Filtering

bq.If we can’t get what we want from the filtering companies, I say let’s make our own – Judith Krug bq.So why doesn’t somebody create an open-source censoreware program that is minimally compliant with CIPA? This would give librarians a better option, and it would put pressure on the existing vendors to narrow their blocking [...]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

I had been planning to do a post explaining who the characters are, since the abysmally stupid ad campaign has done such a bad job. But I found it had already been done from a point of view I hadn’t considered. Actually, I just found another one.

Content Caching

Some time ago, the New York Times changed their archived content policy (and then changed it again). Of course, there is also this factor. Now there is still more controversy. It never seems to end. Dave has an issue of his own with a new application by Mark Pilgrim. Dave is famous for editing things [...]

RSS2Necho

If you have been wondering what the LibraryPlanet.com Feed in the soon-to-be-formerly-named-Echo format looks like, check this out. It even validates in Mark and Sam’s new improved Feed Validator. The conversion itself was performed by Tristan Louis new tool, RSS2Necho. I intend to implement one for real just as soon as the name issue is [...]