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" removing content, from Google News sources ": Google's always had a policy of not indexing things people don't want indexed. That's not evil, that's polite. Agence France Presse is shooting itself in the foot by not being indexed by Google News, but hey, that's their point.

" Google Print caving in to publishers legal threats ": Did you read the article. This is temporary. Google is continuing to fight for the right to index books in the courts. Having to wait until the court case is finished is annoying, but is hardly Google actively being evil.

" DMCA complaints ": Google's just obeying the law. The law is bad. To try and show that the law is bad, Google is working with Chilling Effects to document the cases, specifically provides links to the takedown notices with contain the links in question. Maybe it would better if Google were to break the law, but I'm hard pressed to call someone attempting to protest a bad law to the extent possible "evil." At worst they've simply failed to be as good as they could be.

I disagree. Subsidizing evil's still evil. Many are claiming Google's shunning of the government's request has nothing to do with protecting privacy, but rather trade secrets, which could be reverse engineered from making such massive lists (potentially) public. As with the censored Chinese Google News, when it comes to removing content, from Google News sources to multiple DMCA complaints to the now infamous Google Print caving in to publishers legal threats, the company has been consistent: they do what's best for stockholder value. I don't see how their slogan can be "do no evil" for much longer.

As for your foreign policy analogies, I'm a bigger fan of Containment than Brinkmanship, but that's just because I saw the former work with the USSR and what the latter is accomplishing today.

• Oh wait, they did remove sources from Google News because newspapers complained....
• Oh wait, they did remove search results because of DMCA takedown notices....

• Oh wait, they did remove sources from Google News because newspapers complained....
• Oh wait, they did remove search results because of DMCA takedown notices....

Here are a few leading library blogs
http://librarian.net
http://librarystuff.net
http://lisnews.com
http://libr.org/juice
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/index.html

a collaborative blog, a guide to problematical library use
http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.buzzword.com

Of interest, at Boston Public Library some BPLers are unable or unwilling to use plain ASCII text when sending email, when replying to reference desk enquiries from BPLusers!

Seriously. LISNews.com is featuring a rundown of the top library stories of 2004. Much of Slashdot's news crosses over with library science, just as much of IT relates with what librarians do nowadays. So please take a look to see what we're been up to. Librarians need more tech-savvy people familiar with the challenges we're facing.

>Nor should they, since they pay copyright taxes on photocopiers.

We also have those Title 17 stickers on them, which disavow the library if you do anything naughty with them.

Allegations of price fixing by textbook companies are nothing new.

• Librarians to the Rescue
• Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools
• Internet Publishing Can Pay Off
• It's Just the 'internet' Now? (story from here)
• Open-ILS.org | Library software by librarians for librarians

• Librarians to the Rescue
• Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools
• Internet Publishing Can Pay Off
• It's Just the 'internet' Now? (story from here)
• Open-ILS.org | Library software by librarians for librarians

• Librarians to the Rescue
• Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools
• Internet Publishing Can Pay Off
• It's Just the 'internet' Now? (story from here)
• Open-ILS.org | Library software by librarians for librarians

• Librarians to the Rescue
• Copyright Crusaders Hit Schools
• Internet Publishing Can Pay Off
• It's Just the 'internet' Now? (story from here)
• Open-ILS.org | Library software by librarians for librarians

explanation

At least give a reference when you steal something word for word!

mostly librarian-types (hmm, interesting copy on that story....

It was invoked in an embezzlement case against a strip club -- hardly a matter of national security if you ask me, Tony.

Metafilter has some comments too. Apparently the site had downloads of episodes available, despite their claim that it was just Amazon links that got them in hot water.

• IPO = Initial Public Offerin
• SEC = Securities and Exchange Commission (currently DDoSed)

"In the filing, Google said that it generated revenues of $961.9 million in 2003 and reported a net profit of $106.5 million. Sales rose 177 percent from a year ago although earnings increased by just 6 percent." - LISnews.com.

More stories are available from CNN and The Associated Press.

linked in this write-up.

at LISNews (kind of the /. for librarians...)

Article: Google Inc. hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to arrange its initial public offering, a sale that may raise as much as $4 billion...

Google may be sold in the IPO, giving the company a market value of about $12 billion

BTW if you're interested in information technology you may want to check this out. There's also several other full-fledged LIS news sources on the Web.

This story was posted on LISNews.com last week. There's about one story a week on LISNews.com that shows up later on Slashdot (and sometimes vice-versa). It's a popular Weblog in Slashcode that has library and information scienc news.

This story was posted on LISNews.com last week. There's about one story a week on LISNews.com that shows up later on Slashdot (and sometimes vice-versa). It's a popular Weblog in Slashcode that has library and information scienc news.

He is expected to serve his time in a minimum security facility where he will be able to receive drug counseling. U.S. Attorney Robert W. Merkle, who prosecuted the case, told Castagna that no crimes ''are more violent than the use of child pornography and the distribution of narcotics.'' He said Dubin's attempt to minimize his activities as just a ''lifestyle'' was a ''new low in euphemisms.'' Merkle said it was particularly aggravating that Dubin used his medical knowledge to satisfy his own appetite and risk the lives and mental health of his victims.

The author of a popular text, "Rapid Interpretation of EKG's," wrote in the 50th printing an insert among the copyright legalese boilerplate. In this insert, he offers a free car shown on page 46 to the people who send their name and address to the publisher, and who's name is pulled out of a hat. Only 5 people responded out of the 60,000 copies sold, and Jeffrey Seiden won the prize- a shiny red 1965 Ford Thunderbird, with only 16,000 miles on it, worth $20,000.00. However, it turned out that this was not a Yale University matter although reported in the New Haven Register. Author Dale Dubin had lost his medical license and served five years in federal prison for selling drugs and possession of child pornography. He had been released in 1989.

Davak

Read LISNews.com if you like these sort of stories, delivered in a more timely manner.

Hey! Don't diss librarians. Sometimes they're your last line of defence in protecting your First Amendment Rights.

They must be using the million monkeys with typewriters (keyboards?) software development method.

Not a problem, in theory. What happens when someone actually tries that?

Again, long URL, here in plaintext (remove any spaces):

http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=2001030513 0545

http://www.ala.org/cipa/FCCRulemaking.pdf
it's a PDF.

We've always got filtering stuff at LISNews.com too, :-)

We have quite a few stories at LISNews.com on Censorship and Filtering that can give you some idea on what's going on around the country in these areas as well. Mostly from the popular press, shows who is for and against and where this is being used and fught against.

We have quite a few stories at LISNews.com on Censorship and Filtering that can give you some idea on what's going on around the country in these areas as well. Mostly from the popular press, shows who is for and against and where this is being used and fught against.

We have quite a few stories at LISNews.com on Censorship and Filtering that can give you some idea on what's going on around the country in these areas as well. Mostly from the popular press, shows who is for and against and where this is being used and fught against.