As Jenny Levine points out, Walt Crawford has an excellent 20-page special issue of Cites and Insights devoted to the “broadcast flag,” a digital-rights technology which if the FCC has its way will be built into all digital TVs manufactured after June, 2005.
If, like me, you felt on reading Walt’s discussion that you had [...]
As of this morning, ALA had received 3900 online ballots since the balloting began one week ago. To put this in perspective, last year, ALA received 9,844 ballots for the entire election–a turnout of less than 18% for a paper-ballot voting period 52 days long. Not only that, but 2003’s turnout was the best [...]
This is a reminder that I’m enthusiastically supporting Barb Stripling for ALA President, and hope you will join me in voting for her.
Barb is not only enormously poised and articulate, and a great writer, but her background in school libraries makes her an essential choice in this most draconian of budget years. [...]
Allow me to make a few approving clucks over the new ALA online election system. I started my ballot today (and will set it aside to finish it up later). It’s not just that the company did a good job designing our ballot (which they did) or that the process is remarkably smooth [...]
I’ve written and destroyed this entry twice–the price of frantic post-vacation recovery! I have oodles to say, and clearly need some focused time to say it. But the issue of wireless at ALA is back on the docket, I have my own thoughts about the supposedly “draconian” copyright issue involving the otherwise nifty [...]
Shared by a colleague:
Our boiler was failing. We decided that we loved steam heat and we wanted to keep it, so we started interviewing plumbers who knew steam. The house sat on a slab with a tight crawlspace around the perimeter and a small basement with the boiler under the kitchen. One [...]
No postings to FRL this week, most likely. Thanks for all the wedding greetings! I’m sitting here staring at our certificate–what an amazing world we are in. When FRL resumes, I plan to write about such things as the slow-moving-barge syndrome, why RSS can make me crazy, second thoughts about a recent [...]
Update: Also see Flickr set of additional photos!
(Sunlight on the Richmond Bridge)
March 5 dawned bright and beautiful, and even with last-minute e-mail and phone calls, extensive pantyhose issues, and a power-walk around the Miller Knox park, we were out the door by 9 a.m. (though not without checking our purses at least a dozen times [...]
Steve Cohen points out that Amazon has a number of RSS feeds. I like it, I like it! He’s right that it would be niftier if it were customizable, but it’s still rss-alicious. Note that what the feeds deliver is “a headline-view of the top 10 bestsellers in that category or set of [...]
You may recall Choicepoint as the firm that produced a highly flawed list of supposedly disqualified voters for the Florida recount in the 2000 Presidential election. Courtesy of a routine background check run on me very recently, I know a little more how they operate, and it smells to high heaven.
The company that used [...]
