IFLA 2010 World Report on Access of Information and Freedom of Expression
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has released its World Report 2010:"The World Report series is a biennial report series that reports on the state of the world in terms of freedom of access to information, freedom of expresion and related issues (...) The 2010 Report has been designed as a customizable interactive electronic publication and can be accessed in different formats through the maps below: The country-oriented map interface on the left allows users to produce a full or partial country report or comparative country reports, depending on choices on the following page. ...
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Library Boy - August 23, 2010 Author: Michel-Adrien
Berkman Buzz: Week of August 9, 2010
BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
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What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below.
* Doc Searls might be wrong about the future of the internet.
* Jonathan Zittrain gets to the core of net neutrality.
* CMLP warns against three-strikes internet laws.
* David Weinberger wonders if Google ever really loved him in the first place.
* Herdict discusses Australian internet filtering.
* Weekly Global Voices: "Rwan...
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Berkman Blog - August 13, 2010 Author: syoung Tags: Berkman Buzz
Berkman Buzz: Week of July 26, 2010
BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
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What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below.
* Wendy Seltzer, "Jailbreaking Copyright's Scope."
* Facebook caper? Jonathan Zittrain holsters his pitchfork.
* Facebook privacy settings? danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai ask, "Who cares?"
* Peace on Facebook? Ethan Zuckerman tries to do the math.
* Dan Gillmor's initial comments on the WikiLeaks "Afghanistan diary."
* Weekly G...
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Berkman Blog - July 30, 2010 Author: syoung Tags: Berkman Buzz
Wylie's Amazon deal brings the end of the publishing world nigh
News that power-broking agent Andrew Wylie has bypassed conventional publishers to sell his clients' ebooks direct to Amazon has created panic. Is it curtains for conventional publishing?Publishers came face to face with their own vision of apocalypse yesterday, as Andrew Wylie announced that he and his authors would be cutting publishing houses out of the future and teaming up with Amazon to sell their own electronic editions.Grinning down from the saddle beside him in the first wave of horsemen is a fearsome collection of riders, including Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and John Updike. "As the market for ebook...
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Guardian Unlimited Books - July 23, 2010 Author: Richard Lea Tags: Publishing Ebooks Culture Amazon.com Technology guardian.co.uk Blogposts
A World Without Email — Year 3, Weeks 19 to 23 (Breaking the Email Addiction)
It has been a few weeks already since the last progress report I have shared over here around the topic of living "A World Without Email" (#lawwe) and since quite a few people have asked me recently how things are going, to the point where I will be talking to an internal group doing smart work and then a customer event on this very same subject very soon, I thought I might as well get together another update to relate how things are going. Has my weekly inbound email increased or decreased? Have I given up altogether on it already? Have I gone back to email after listening again to the sirens singing along? No, ...
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E L S U A ~ A KM Blog - July 19, 2010 Author: Luis Suarez Tags: Collaboration Communities Enterprise2.0 IBM Innovation Knowledge Management Knowledge Tools Learning Personal KM Productivity Tools Social Computing A-World-Without-Email
Federal election campaign kit -
ALIA has put together a federal election campaign kit so Every Member (can be) An Advocate. Our hot topics include early years literacy, digitisation, the National Broadband Network, National Year of Reading 2012, electronic resources for all Australians, school libraries, internet filtering, cybersafety and freedom of access to government information
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ALIAnet: ALIA home page news - July 19, 2010
Berkman Buzz: Week of July 12, 2010
BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
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What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below.
* Doc Searls wonders whether biz is all it is.
* Ethan Zuckerman's "a wider world, a wider web" TED talk
* Donnie Dong spots the difference anew on Google.cn.
* Herdict updates us on Australia's internet filtering plans.
* Wendy Seltzer comments on "Bilski and the Value of Experimentation."
* Radio Berkman 158: "Thinking Abou...
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Berkman Blog - July 16, 2010 Author: syoung Tags: Berkman Buzz
Federal election campaign kit -
ALIA is putting together a federal election campaign kit so Every Member (can be) An Advocate. Our hot topics include early years literacy, digitisation, the National Broadband Network, National Year of Reading 2012, electronic resources for all Australians, school libraries, internet filtering, cybersafety and freedom of access to government information. The kit will be available to download from the website shortly
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ALIAnet: ALIA home page news - July 12, 2010
Berkman Buzz: Week of July 5, 2010
BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
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What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below.
* Doc Searls remembers Persephone Miel.
* David Weinberger jots in the margin of the book's indefinite farewell.
* Ethan Zuckerman asks, "What if search drove newspapers?"
* Donnie Dong gets lawyerly with Google.cn's ICP license.
* Herdict on Australia's progress toward internet filtering.
* Andrew McAfee elaborates his Inter...
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Berkman Blog - July 9, 2010 Author: syoung Tags: Berkman Buzz
ALIA Media releases about Internet Filtering.
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ALIAnet: ALIA home page news - July 8, 2010
ALA10: LITA Awards Reception and President’s Program
Hi! I’m Andromeda Yelton, and I’ll be your conference blogger today, covering the LITA awards reception and President’s program.
LITA Awards Reception
Full disclosure: I’m one of the awardees, and utterly starstruck by the others.
The event opened with mingling and one of the best food spreads I saw at a program at Annual (cheese, fruit, cake); thank you, LITA, for knowing how to entertain.
The LITA/Library Hi Tech awardee was Marshall Breeding, whose Library Technology Guides site was indispensable to me during my library automation class; exciting to meet the man behind the data. Read the press...
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LITA Blog - July 6, 2010 Author: Andromeda Yelton Tags: ALA 2010
Berkman Buzz: Week of June 28, 2010
BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
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* David Weinberger live-blogs Lewis Hyde's talk on a durable commons.
* Harry Lewis hears alarm bells in Golan v. Holder.
* Future of the internet rounds up the week's developments.
* OpenNet Initiative on Afghanistan's internet filtering.
* Doc Searls is having mobile phone trouble, in France.
* Dan Gillmor finds Google retr...
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Berkman Blog - July 2, 2010 Author: syoung Tags: Berkman Buzz
OPLIN 4Cast #184: .xxx domains
After several years of debate, pornographic web content has been given its own domain. What effect will it have (or not) on internet content filtering?
internet pornography to get its own red light district as .xxx name approved
.XXX domain: A bit like Amsterdam…only different
Dot-XXX Domain Won’t Clean Up the Web
The Next Steps Before Dot-XXX Goes Live
Bonus link:
Why Using TLDs for filtering is Ineffective, Harmful, and Unnecessary
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The OPLIN 4cast - June 30, 2010 Author: editor Tags: 4cast
How to cope with an Internet ‘slushpile’?
In Salon Magazine, Laura Miller brings up the conundrum of self- and e-self-publishing turning the internet into one huge slushpile. (The slushpile, for those who don’t know, is the publishing term for the stack of unsolicited manuscripts on a publisher’s desk, 99.9% of which are guaranteed to be absolute rubbish.)
It’s a problem that has received plenty of play in e-book circles over the last few years, with increasing frequency now that e-book devices are actually starting to take off. When everyone is publishing everything they want to publish, how can anyone find anything they would actually want to read?
YouR...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - June 28, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Chris Meadows e-books ebooks epublishing self-publishing e-publishing Salon Magazine slushpile
An update on China
Ever since we launched Google.cn, our search engine for mainland Chinese users, we have done our best to increase access to information while abiding by Chinese law. This has not always been an easy balance to strike, especially since our January announcement that we were no longer willing to censor results on Google.cn.We currently automatically redirect everyone using Google.cn to Google.com.hk, our Hong Kong search engine. This redirect, which offers unfiltered search in simplified Chinese, has been working well for our users and for Google. However, it’s clear from conversations we have had with Chinese government o...
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Official Google Blog - June 28, 2010 Author: A Googler
Two more states open Google Apps for teachers and students
We recently announced that Oregon is the first state to begin offering Google Apps to public schools. Today, Colorado and Iowa are joining the movement. Google Apps for Education will now be available to more than 3,000 schools across the two states.These state-wide agreements enable schools and districts to benefit from centralized resources such as deployment support and training materials, paving the way for an easy transition to Google Apps—including Gmail, Docs, Sites, Calendar, Video and Groups—in their classrooms, immediately.Colorado Governor Bill Ritter said it best: “I’m pleased to see the Statewide Inter...
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Official Google Blog - June 28, 2010 Author: A Googler
Updated: Social Media Filtering Map from OpenNet Initiative
From the Announcement:
OpenNet’s newly updated social media filtering map displays the states and regions around the world where some of the most popular social media websites are censored.
In the past few years, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have caught the attention of governments, especially with respect to activists in authoritarian countries who use these sites for political campaigning and social advocacy.
Based on testing conducted in 2008-2009 and further monitoring of Herdict and media reports in 2010, the OpenNet Initiative has compiled data on the most frequently blocked soc...
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ResourceShelf - June 23, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized
Google's New Secure Search Might Force Schools to Block Google
Last month, Google launched an encrypted version of its Web search, allowing users to enable a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection to encrypt their information. Like several other Google products that feature SSL encryption, including email and Docs, Google touted this move as a step towards enhancing users' privacy and security.
But as the encrypted searches mean that data cannot be logged, filtered, or blocked, Google's new secure search runs afoul of CIPA, the Children's internet Protection Act. And with the service's beta release, many schools are now facing some difficult decisions in how to respond.
CIPA requires s...
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LISNews.org - June 10, 2010 Author: Bibliofuture Tags: internet School Libraries
Google's New Secure Search Might Force Schools to Block Google
Last month, Google launched an encrypted version of its Web search, allowing users to enable a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection to encrypt their information. Like several other Google products that feature SSL encryption, including email and Docs, Google touted this move as a step towards enhancing users' privacy and security.
But as the encrypted searches mean that data cannot be logged, filtered, or blocked, Google's new secure search runs afoul of CIPA, the Children's internet Protection Act. And with the service's beta release, many schools are now facing some difficult decisions in how to respond.
CIPA requires s...
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LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News - June 10, 2010 Author: Bibliofuture Tags: internet School Libraries
Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR internet & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
June 9, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media
[1] [TUESDAY 6/15] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Don't Hate the
Player, Hate the Game: internet Games, Social Inequality, and Racist
Talk as Griefing" with Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana
Champaign
(http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/06/nakamura)
[2] [THURSDAY 6/17] Law.gov: Massachusetts (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA)
[3] [FRIDAY 6/18] Law.gov: Putting It All Together (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov)
[REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN...
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Berkman Blog - June 9, 2010 Author: ashar
Real time image search
Real time search is at its most powerful when it comes to breaking news. And I often find myself filtering the results to get to the photos. A picture is worth a thousand words and real time images from the oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico or the soccer world championship in South Africa is a powerful way to plug into what’s happening.
No real time image search at Google
With the recent addition of the sidebar tools, it is easy to filter your Google search to get the most recent results or to get images, but once you have chosen to see only images, the option to filter by time disappears. So Google doesn’t do...
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Pandia Search Engine News - June 8, 2010 Author: Per and Susanne Koch Tags: All (summaries)
Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR internet & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
June 2, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media
[1] [TUESDAY 6/8] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Preliminary
Conclusions from The Industrial Cooperation Project" with Berkman
Fellow Carolina Rossini
(http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/06/rossini)
[REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN 6/28-30] You are invited to the COMMUNIA 2010
Conference on "University in Cyberspace", taking place in Torino,
Italy. Visit http://www.communia2010.org/ to learn more and sign up for
the announcement list.
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on the INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION...
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Berkman Blog - June 2, 2010 Author: ashar
Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR internet & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
May 26, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media
[1] [TOMORROW 5/27] "The FCC's Authority Over Broadband Access" in
Washington, DC at the National Press Club. Co-hosted by the Berkman
Center and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
(http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/05/broadband)
-- please note
that registration is now closed for this event, but you can follow the
discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #bbauth
[REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN 6/28-30] You are invited to the COMMUNIA 2010
Conference on "University in Cyberspace", taking pla...
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Berkman Blog - May 26, 2010 Author: ashar
Washington State Supreme Court Decision On Internet Filtering In Public Libraries
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/court_says_internet_filtering_in_public_libraries.php
ReadWriteWeb offers this article on the Washington State Supreme Court decision’s on internet filtering in public libraries. The article provides a link to the decision itself.
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MPLIC Reference Highway - May 20, 2010 Author: Philip Tags: All Computers Legal Information internet filtering public libraries washington state supreme court decision internet filtering public libraries internet filters
iPad newspaper and magazine apps may be supplanted by Mobile Safari
The bloom may be off the iPad newspaper and magazine app rose.
Jason Fry at the Nieman Journalism Lab says that, after a week of iPad use, he started to notice that he was not using those apps as much as he was using the iPad’s Mobile Safari browser to access the equivalent websites—because they weren’t as necessary as they had been on the iPhone’s tiny screen.
Jacob Weisberg at Slate has an article that begins with an extended metaphor comparing Apple to the Catholic Church, and content publishers to supplicants at Lourdes who hope “that Steve Jobs will restore their businesses to health by blessing them with â...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - May 18, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Apple Chris Meadows censorship iPad iPhone magazines newspapers apps iPod Touch ITunes Mobile Safari publishing Time Vanity Fair
Law Librarian Blog: Internet Filtering: Censorship or Collection ...
American Library Association, 539 U.S. 194 (2003), for the proposition that prior restraint jurisprudence should not extend to collection development
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pligg - all - May 17, 2010 Tags: Censorship
Last Week’s DigitalKoans Tweets 2010-05-16
Real Copyright Law And File Sharing Copyright Law http://icio.us/adbp2v #
OA-related items from the Alberta Library Conference http://icio.us/4g5exg #
Database Marketplace 2010: Feast and Famine http://icio.us/brgm44 #
Can we have fair use without fair use technology? http://icio.us/asz3h0 #
Washington, We Have a Problem [Giving a publishers' letter opposing FRPAA a closer look] http://icio.us/esm0sd #
Separating Fact from Fiction: My Fair Copyright Proposals http://icio.us/vf0axt #
Wendy Seltzer on delegated censorship, copyright, and the DMCA http://icio.us/a41ed2 #
Public Comments on the U.S. Intellectual Property E...
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DigitalKoans - May 16, 2010 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Last Week's DigitalKoan's Tweets
Last Week’s DigitalKoans Tweets 2010-05-16
Real Copyright Law And File Sharing Copyright Law http://icio.us/adbp2v #
OA-related items from the Alberta Library Conference http://icio.us/4g5exg #
Database Marketplace 2010: Feast and Famine http://icio.us/brgm44 #
Can we have fair use without fair use technology? http://icio.us/asz3h0 #
Washington, We Have a Problem [Giving a publishers' letter opposing FRPAA a closer look] http://icio.us/esm0sd #
Separating Fact from Fiction: My Fair Copyright Proposals http://icio.us/vf0axt #
Wendy Seltzer on delegated censorship, copyright, and the DMCA http://icio.us/a41ed2 #
Public Comments on the U.S. Intellectual Property E...
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DigitalKoans - May 16, 2010 Author: admin
"Catching Up with the RIAA"
Walt Crawford has published "Catching Up with the RIAA" in Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large.
Here's an excerpt:
Briefly, Jammie Thomas was the defendant in the first case where an RIAA filesharing infringement suit actually went to a jury—despite RIAA's best efforts to avoid that happening. Thomas seemed like a sympathetic defendant: Single mother, Native American. But her IP address was attached to a KaZaA account offering more than 1,700 recordings with a user name she'd apparently used for years on several different accounts…and shortly after receiving a settlement letter from ...
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DigitalKoans - May 13, 2010 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Copyright Digital Copyright Wars P2P File Sharing
Washington Supreme Court Supports Library’s Stringent Internet Filtering Policy
The Supreme Court of Washington issued a decision on May 6th supporting a public library’s decision to fully filter internet content, stating that such filtering could be viewed as “collection development”. The case is known as Bradburn vs. North Central Regional Library District.
Library Journal has an article that summarizes the decision and provides reactions and predictions from various experts.
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Slaw - May 11, 2010 Author: Agnese Caruso Tags: Technology: internet filtering public libraries
