Wireless
Bill Drew's Wireless Librarian http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/
For more examples, see Wilton Library's Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/innovate.html
Free Online Scholarship
Peter Suber, Free Online Scholarship Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/. Read his guide to the FOS Movement for links to a wide number of free scholarship projects, including:
arXiv http://arXiv.org/
BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BudapestAccess Initiative http://www.soros.org/ccess/
Archives Initiative http://www.rchives.org/
Public Library of Science http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
Digital Library Projects
PubMed Central has started a major archival scanning project
in conjunction with several different publishers. The
National Library of Medicine will scan cover-to- cover
images of participating journal issues, back through volume
one. You can read about the scanning project at
http://pubmedcentral.com/about/scanning.html
D-Lib Magazine http://www.dlib.org/
Digital Library Federation http://www.diglib.org/
PADI- Preserving Access to Digital Information http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/
Digital Library Federation Public Access Collections http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll
Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/
Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
Marylaine Block. Doing It Right: How Some Universities Encourage the Creation of Prime Research Web Sites http://infotoday.com/searcher/sep02/Block.htm
Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
"Superarchives ould Hold All Scholarly Output." http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm
Source
OSS4Lib http://www.oss4lib.org/
Eric's Linux Information http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux/
Source Software in Libraries: a Workshop http://infomotions.com/musings/ossnlibraries-workshop/ossnlibraries-workshop.html
Lawsuits
Suit against Microsoft re plug-ins
SCO suit claiming ownership of Linux
Lawsuits against peer-to-peer technologies
Linking: see EFF backgrounder at http://www.eff.org/IP/Linking//
The Decline of Free Information
Copyright Term Extension Act
Database Protection Act -- see InfoWorld article, http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/16/HNsubbill_1.html
"Boucher offered four other amendments to the bill, which were either voted down or withdrawn. One would have exempted libraries from penalties in the bill, but that amendment was rejected by the committee. A second Boucher amendment would have prevented database owners from using the bill to protect legal materials produced by federal courts or any legislative materials."
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Decline of Advertising Revenues
Leading to the decline of print and online magazines -- see MediaBistro, http://www.mediabistro.com/, Jim Romanesko's Media News, http://www.poynter.org/medianews/
The End of Free http://www.theendoffree.com/
Among the victims: the Industry Standard, Brill's Content, Lingua Franca, Arts & Letters Daily, about.com/, Feed. On the endangered list or looking for new revenue: Salon, Slashdot, American Lawyer. Laying off reporting staff and columnists: virtually every newspaper and magazine and other media -- CNN, AOL, MTV, Boston Globe, Playboy, various Primedia titles, about.com/, Springer-Verlag, etc. Time's staff is expected to be cut in half by 2010.
Security
SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities
http://www.sans.org/top20/index1.php
"This updated SANS Top Twenty is actually two Top Ten lists: the ten most commonly exploited vulnerable services in Windows and the ten most commonly exploited vulnerable services in UNIX and Linux. Although there are thousands of security incidents each year affecting these operating systems, the overwhelming majority of successful attacks target one or more of these twenty vulnerable services."
Old Allies Turning Against Each Other
See my article, Shifting Alliances, in ExLibris, November 16, 2001, http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib121.html
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Marylaine's e-zines, Ex Libris and Neat New Stuff I Found This Week, presentation outlines for her workshops and speaking engagements, and links to all her other work are available at http://marylaine.com/
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