Indexed <3 Libraries

I always love how Jessica at Indexed makes complicated things simple – and often hilarious.  Today, Indexed takes on censorship, in a post entitled “Keep libraries free!”

Hear hear!

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Ah, Synergy

I love coming across the doings of folks I have known when I’m least expecting it.  For example, I spent a summer working for the editor of this book — which, incidentally, looks really cool and has now been made available as a free PDF.

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Things I’d like to see:

A discussion — perhaps a debate — between Chris Anderson and Robert Putnam on the future of American community, in light of existing and emerging media and communications technologies.
Just sayin’.

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Um, hilarious.

From McSweeney’s, via BoingBoing, a parody of an RIAA threat letter:
[This made me laugh a lot (though largely internally; externally I had to stifle my gaiety due to my physical position behind a library reference desk).]
If you would prefer not to be stripped of your home and dignity, please send us $3,750 in the return [...]

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Amazing.

I was overwhelmed with both despair and uncontrollable laughter upon reading Senator Stevens’ comments on Net Neutrality last week. “The Internet is not a truck”? Oh dear.
However, the number of creative ways people have found to riff on this bit of political idiocy has been quite amazing. The latest – a poppy [...]

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Disclaimer

Walt Crawford’s comments on my last post reminded me of something I needed to do. So, while I think about what to say next, let me just throw this out there:
This blog represents my opinions and my opinions only, and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan, UM Libraries, or UM [...]

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More Geeky Fun

How did I ever live without BoingBoing to provide me with giggles and warm-fuzzies to get me through the day? First it’s Cory Doctorow sending fruit baskets to Google, then crazy-ass judges making highly entertaining use of Billy Madison…and now, it’s Isolatr.
Perhaps it’s just because I go to a school where “Social Computing” is [...]

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Judges can be funny

Last fall, I knew I was becoming a tech law geek when I couldn’t stop laughing reading the Supreme Court’s opinion in Reno v. ACLU. That opinion was fairly early in the life of the WWW, and was thus stuck in the position of having to define much of the terminology and mechanics of [...]

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Someone get that man a functional metaphor

There are some books whose intense popularity I simply cannot fathom. A prime example of this: Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, which I am being made to choke down for my “Development and Future of the Internet” class.
Don’t get me wrong; I see why it might have been assigned. The topics it [...]

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