Radical library conference presentations. The presentations from the conference, The radical library: taking up the challenge (London, November 13), are now online. [Open Access News]

ICANN, WSIS and the Making of a Global Civil Society [CitizenLab]

SPSS releases Text Mining toolkit for analytical CRM. SPSS Inc. recently announced the release of Predictive Text Analyticsú, a new solution focused on unlocking the customer insight trapped in widely collected, but rarely used, unstructured text data. Predictive Text Analytics is a text mining solution specifically designed for… [unstruct.org – Unstructured Information Management]

Cult of the Lone Coder. On Malik has a nice post on “programmers who refuse to climb the corporate ladder; or kowtow to the whims and fancies of venture capitalists. An increasing number of talented coders are setting up shop on their own, developing niche products for under served markets and making a decent living…Many […]

The working poor. the working poor A new book by Beth Shulman called The Betrayal of Work‰¥? argues that hard work is just not cutting it in America anymore. According to Shulman, even in the go-go ‰¥ú90s one out of every four American workers made less than $8.70 an hour, an income equal to the […]

Sharing and stealing. Jessica Litman, Sharing and Stealing, a preprint posted to SSRN. From the abstract: “The purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation and mass dissemination of a wide variety of works. Until recently, most means of mass dissemination required a significant capital investment. The lion's share of the economic proceeds of copyrights […]

Radio TrackBack monitor. If you're blogging with Radio and have TrackBack enabled, you'll love this service which provides an RSS feed of TrackBacks to your weblog -  I'm kicking myself for missing it when Phil came up with it a few months back. So I now have a TrackBack feed in addition to my comments […]

history, credit and identity. Like many students of computing, i was inspired by Vannevar Bush from my earliest days. “As We May Think” and follow-up writings on the Memex helped define a century of thought and computational effort. Yet, as Michael Buckland is uncovering,… [misbehaving.net] my response over there follows: Vannevar Bush's fame is not […]

New issue of Jekyll. The September issue of Jekyll (“International Journal on Science Communication”) is now online. Here are the OA-related articles. Pietro Greco, Political censorship of science Gerry McKiernan, Invisible Hand(s): Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving Stevan Harnad, Self-archive unto others as ye would have them self-archive unto you [Open Access […]