Jeff Ubois on Erasing Televised History, Copyright-style: Remember Dan Quayle’s attack on fictional character Murphy Brown? Well if you don’t, or want to refresh your recollection of the 1992 episode, you’ll have to rely on secondary sources, Jeff Ubois reports. Due in part to the vagaries of copyright and contract, public access to the televised […]

The Sun Online – News: Bet this tortoise runs on shell: IT may not be a fast mover but it keeps Tina the three-legged tortoise out of the crawler lane. The 54-year-old pet has a mini air-filled rubber wheel to replace a leg lost to a predator. —- and people wonder what other people do […]

Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox): All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don’t participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in the background. In contrast, a tiny minority of users usually accounts for […]

Why Wiki? free online video course: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries has made a free online video course available called Why Wiki?. Save this post to any one of these social bookmarking services: — Why wiki… indeed.

Car loans help the poor get to work – Yahoo! News: Advocates say Ways to Work, which has underwritten $36 million in loans to 24,000 families since it began as a small program in Minnesota in 1984, is part of a new model for social service programs, one that delivers human services aimed at economic […]

One can envisage education becoming less and less a closed site differentiated form the workplace as another closed site, but both disappear and giving way to frightful continual training, to continual monitoring of worker-schoolkids or bureaucrat-students. They try to present this as a reform of the school system, but it’s really its dismantling. negotiations 174

School web sites fail accessibility test: Eighty-six percent of the nation’s top universities have web sites that do not comply with standards designed to make the internet more accessible to persons with disabilities, according to a recent survey. Conducted… —— i bet it is a higher percentage for local libraries.