It isn’t long but you have to read this. It’s the most encouraging thing I’ve seen in a while.
EFF: DeepLinks
And when Stevens asked whether with the audio flag in place he would be able to record from the radio and put the shows onto his iPod: that’s when the RIAA’s Mitch Bainwol really [...]

OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR (the Directory of Open Repositories) has officially launched its list of OA archives and repositories.

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: 5 Factors for User Centered Services
Words to live by.

‘Stanford On ITunes’ Is For Everybody – Forbes.com
In an unprecedented move, Stanford University is collaborating with Apple Computer to allow public access a wide range of lectures, speeches, debates and other university content through iTunes. No need to pay the $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be a student. [...]

Boing Boing: A-Hole bill would make a secret technology into the law of the land
If the controversial Analog Hole bill makes it into law, US technologists will have to obey a law whose most important details are a trade-secret.
… The idea is that any time you attempted to make a digital recording, your device would [...]

Open Access News
Hippocrates is a new, free medical search engine specializing in deep-web content intelligible to lay readers. For more details, see this story about it from today’s issue of The Hindu.
I tried it and was impressed by the results.

Boing Boing: Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too
Under the DCPA proposal, digital media technologies would be restricted to using technologies that had been certified by the FCC as being not unduly disruptive to entertainment industry business-models.
Many comments, none of them suitable for publication.

Open Access News
DRM should respect the public domain. That means [DRM on copyrighted works] should automatically expire, leaving the content freely accessible, on the date when the work enters the public domain….

Can video iPod lead to DMCA reform? | Perspectives | CNET News.com

In 1998, politicians bowed to pressure from the entertainment industry and voted overwhelmingly for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Part of that law made it a federal offense to sell or distribute software that can rip DVDs.
In other words, believe it or not, Apple [...]

James Governor’s MonkChips: What about My Copy Rights? Towards a declaration of digital independence.
By paying an artist or rights holder we must have some rights in turn.

LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Library services and in-house software development
Ah, you say, I don’t need to know about these things because I have vendors supply this for me. Yes, that might be true, but such an approach to the situation is expensive in terms of time. It is not possible for third party [...]

Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book: Don’t focus on the customer/patron (?!)
… the authors tell us to refocus our attention from consumers themselves to the jobs they want to get done.

Open Access News
Comment. There are two OA connections here. First, skyrocketing journal prices in the sciences have caused most research libraries to cut into their book budgets, which has greatly reduced the demand for monographs, which has greatly reduced the number of new book manuscripts accepted by university presses. If spreading OA can help libraries [...]

Wired News: Suits Seek End to Domestic Spying

The New York suit, filed on behalf of the center and individuals, names Bush, the head of the National Security Agency and the heads of the other major security agencies, challenging the NSA’s surveillance of persons within the United States without judicial approval or statutory authorization.
… It asked [...]

Boing Boing: DoJ search requests: Google said no; Yahoo, AOL, MSN yes.
It seems apparent that Google objected to the request not for privacy reasons, but on grounds that the request was too broad and burdensome.
… Justice is not requesting this data in the course of a criminal investigation, but in order to defend its argument [...]

Boing Boing: DRM primer for librarians
Mike Godwin has written a great primer on DRM for librarians. Librarians are on the front lines of the DRM wars, since DRM so often interferes with lending, archiving and preserving creative works. Librarians are also a technology-savvy bunch. Accordingly, Mike’s paper is thoroughgoing, smart, and highly recommended.
A good recomendation [...]

Open Access News
Infotrieve, Inc., today announced that it had converted ArticleFinder, its online scientific, technical, and medical (STM) database with more than 26 million citations and eight million abstracts from over 54,000 journals, to a free access model. The move provides scientists and researchers, who work for corporations and are subject to different copyright regulations [...]

LISNews.org | Are we set for information overload?
As books get digitized and TV shows get downloadable, will it be too much? Maybe! Will all this instantly accessible information make us much smarter, or simply more stressed? When can we break to think, absorb and ponder all this data? It may take better technology to cope [...]