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Intros
Big ups to Aaron Dobbs on making ALA council. Woot!
1. Oh the Joys of Management and Directorship (Gather No Dust)
2. Free Little Brother for librarians, teachers, etc -- a tipjar alternative for people who loved the free ebook (Boing Boing)
3. Your BIGWIG (only if Griffey shows up)
4. FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge (EFF)
FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses (Wired)
5. Is this how we encourage people to contribute? (Information Wants To Be Free)
6. U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt (Mercury News)
Bestiaries, Lockdown, and Twitter (bavatuesdays)
The story of how Twitter was used on campus during a recent crisis to help inform the people held in lockdown, and keep them calm. Is Twitter become THE essential networking/communication tool?
7. AP, newspapers fit print into iPhone (Marketplace)
Will this be the same news that libraries receive through traditional subscriptions, or will it be something else entirely? How will this be archived? Does that really matter? - anna_c
8. Experimental Xerox Paper Erases Itself, Results In Temporary Documents On Reusable Paper (Xerox)
So, is this going to lead to DRM in books? Books that can only be read once? The Ministry of Truth? - ellbeecee
9. Grassroots storytime (Open Stacks)
10. Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song (Social Sciences Research Network)
p4 - The claim that “Happy Birthday to You” is still under copyright has three
principal weaknesses: copyright was not renewed, copyright was not claimed by the actual copyright owner, current putative owners of copyright must be able to trace back to the original authors
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