West Hollywood CA passed an anti-PATRIOT resolution specifically mentioning library privacy. This is one of over 30 anti-PATRIOT resolutions passed so far, nationwide. [ thanks eoin ]
ALA on Fair Use. Fair use is an important element in maintaining the balance that current law embodies and that ALA has always sought... [LibraryPlanet.com]
12:41:40 AM
Blog Readership Patterns. Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality. From Clay Shirky. A few blogs get a disproportionate share of the traffic. Not exactly news, but a good lesson for would-be lawyer-bloggers: Blogging only appears to be egalitarian. If attracting an audience is important to you, quality counts. [net.law.tools]
12:37:05 AM
Last week, Bill O'Reilly created quite a stir when we browbeat guest Jeremy Glick, the son of a Port Authority worker who had died in the 9/11 attacks, for having signed the "Not In Our Name" ad and opposting the attacks against Afghanistan. During the brief interview, O'Reilly insulted Glick several times, told him to "keep his mouth shut", claimed that Glick's father wouldn't have approved of his positions, and eventually ordered him to "shut up" and for his producers to "cut his mic". If you'd like to hear the actual exchange, an .mp3 of it has been posted by poisonskin.com.
In case you missed the news, Steven Cohen has moved Library Stuff to a new home and he's now using Movable Type as the back-end. Along with the new home comes a new focus:
"For now on, I will be posting less stories and more commentary on issues related to library and information science. For those that like less commentary and more stories, I have resumed my post as author over at LISnews and will be contributing stories there.
Why the change? I felt that there were too many library weblogs publishing the same news articles which resulted in a tremendous amount of crossover. By going back to LISnews (many of you don't know that I was one of the original authors), my goal is to help Blake make the site the one-stop place for library news."
Along with the new back-end comes a new RSS feed. I'm just happy to have LS back in my aggregator!
