Friday, April 08, 2005

LOC Releases James Madison Papers. The Library of Congress has released the James Madison Papers to their American Memory Web site: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/ . The collection includes about 12,000 images in about 72,000 digital images. From... [ResearchBuzz] 6:37:21 AM    comment []

Daily Encyclopedia Britannica RSS. Dave Winer reports that Enycyclopedia Britannica now offers an RSS feed for the daily content that appears on the home page. EB is one of my new member libraries (thanks to last year's merger), and one of their librarians came to my RSS class last year. By the end of it, her RSS light bulb was shining brightly, and she talked about going back to the office and pursuing RSS for the company. Hmmmmmmm...did a librarian lead the way???.... [The Shifted Librarian] 6:36:21 AM    comment []

Wes: Zooko, Seth Schoen, and David Weekly have some interesting thoughts about pseudonymity. I've also cracked a LiveJournal identity, although quite by accident. This almost makes me want to create some nyms so that I can try to beat the system. [Hack the Planet] 6:35:43 AM    comment []

HOWTO blog anonymously [bOing bOing] 6:35:35 AM    comment []

U.S. Limits on Internet Gambling Are Backed. The World Trade Organization ruled that the U.S. can maintain many of its restrictions on Internet gambling, largely reversing an earlier ruling. By FOX BUTTERFIELD. [NYT > Technology] 6:35:01 AM    comment []

The companion to the EFF Pioneer Awards (see yesterday) is the presentation of the Big Brother Awards. Joanna Glasner, of Wired, reports, in, ChoicePoint Top Big Brother Pick: The nominees for the annual Big Brother Awards are in. Leading the pack is ChoicePoint, which sold private data to identity thieves. But Google, the U.S. government and a small California school are also in the running. [Wired News] 6:33:40 AM    comment []

Philadelphia's Wi-Fi plan for a 135-square-mile area. The city of Philadelphia plans to "transform its streets and neighborhoods into a gigantic wireless Internet hotspot,"this article says."If approved,the project will offer low-cost wireless broadband access throughout the city's 135-square-mile area". Philadelphia reveals Wi-Fi plan [Smart Mobs] 6:31:31 AM    comment []

HOWTO view source and license from Flash content Mike Chambers of Macromedia says: Lawrence Lessig spoke at the FlashForward conference last night in San Francisco. In his talk, title The Cost of Copy Right, he stressed to the Flash designers and developers the necessity of a culture of sharing. While the Flash community has actually been a very open community, sharing content and source, the Flash Player does not provide an easy or standard way for Flash content developers to allow viewers to download their source code (Flash files are separate from their source). So, I have put together a simple ActionScript library for Flash that allows Flash content creators to easily allow anyone to download the source to their content by right clicking on that content. I have also added a context menu item that allows a distribution license to be specified. Finally, in a nod to Mr Lessig, I have released it all under a Creative Commons license. More info here and a screen shot here. Link [bOing bOing] 6:31:06 AM    comment []

Testing Your Tech Smarts. A reporter tries out a new exam that promises to measure one's ability to make sense of all the information that technology throws at us every day. Can he make the grade? By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News] 6:26:31 AM    comment []

RFC on Capitol Records v. Naxos (Donna Wentworth). Marty Schwimmer and Kevin Heller are experimenting with Wiki-enabled "open source" analysis of the NY court ruling earlier this week that bit off (another) chunk of the public domain. The ruling is already sparking in-depth interrogation -- see, for example, Joe Gratz's N.Y.: Pre-1972 Sound Recordings Under Copyright Until 2067 and Ernie Miller's Distribution Loophole in Capital Records v. Naxos? -- and there's plenty more food for the thinking. Join in the fun @ Between Lawyers. [Copyfight] 6:24:14 AM    comment []

OhmyNews International open for citizen journalists. Ohmynews International is now open to all citizen journalists in an effort to extend their successful experiment from Korea to the rest of the world. They are also planning to invite 500 OhmyNews citizen reporters to Seoul for their first international citizen reporters' forum in June. If you open a citizen reporter account, you will be able to enjoy full control over your articles. After submitting your registration details with OhmyNews for confirmation by our staff, you will find your very own reporter's desk where you can keep track of readers' reactions in real time. This includes the number of people who've read your stories and their comments, and the amount of cybercash you earned. [Smart Mobs] 6:23:41 AM    comment []