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A Risky Way to Protest Library Closures – Check Out All The Books!

I understand the sentiment but with some major library closures now hitting the UK, citizens deciding to check out all 16 000 items in their local library’s collection

Friday Fun Link – Best Free Web Stuff For Broke Libraries

A great summary of every single type of free online service you (or your library) might be interested in… (via LibrarianInBlack) Best Free Web Stuff for Broke Libraries

8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet

(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes,

2010 “End of Year Questions” Meme: BC Bound, Getting Kinected, Hello SILS!

I’ve done this every year since I started this blog and once again, here’s a quick summary of my 2010 in meme form: 1. What did you do

Sappy Sunday – “Today You, Tomorrow Me”

Although it wasn’t written for the holiday season (actually it was in a thread about picking up hitchhikers), a Redditor shares a “pay it forward” story that seems

Web War I: The War to End All Warz?

On Sunday, I did a post about the WikiLeaks situation where I mentioned the possibility of the world’s first true “cyber-war” as one likely outcome, citing the denial

Wisdom Wednesday – “Another Look at Bill C32 and the Access Copyright Tariff”

Dr. Sam Trosow holds a pretty special place in my FIMS experience as both the first and last professor I had classes with. Thinking about my first class

WikiLeaks: Free Speech, Cyberwar 1.0 and Corporate Control of the Cloud

WikiLeaks (which is down as I write this for reasons I’ll get to) is a site that’s been around since 2006 and first got a mention on this

The Library’s Role in Supporting Wikipedia

Wikipedia is having its annual fundraising drive and that got me thinking about a recent conversation I had with a fellow librarian. The discussion started as one of

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