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.
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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.
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Posted in Technology-Issues
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 lists and to say what they block. – Edward Felten
bq.Up for the challenge, I�ve written a simple censorware program. – Aaron Swartz
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Posted in Intellectual Freedom
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.
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Posted in Literature
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 he posts (sometimes making them disappear entirely). At first, Dave focused on bandwidth, but has switched to copyright. Dave certainly has a point, but I am curious how he would compare this with the Internet Archive and Feedster.
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Posted in Knowledge Management
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 settled. But, actually if you think about it, Tristan’s tool has all sorts of uses.
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Posted in Knowledge Management