The most selfish thing about submitting a manuscript late is asking “When is it going to be out?” So I’ve been waiting quietly, rather than trouble Judi Lauber, who did an excellent job editing and managing the publication.
Ryan and Jessamyn each contributed a chapter, and I owe additional thank yous to the full chorus of [...]
Posted June 7, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: F/OSS, free software, freedom, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, Library Technology Reports, LTR, open source. 7 Comments.
This story in MIT Technology Review scares me.
Instead of letting all computers within the network communicate freely, Ethane is designed so that communication privileges within the network have to be explicitly set; that way, only those activities deemed safe are permitted. “With hindsight, it’s a very obvious thing to do,” McKeown says.
No matter how obvious [...]
Posted April 4, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: anarchistic, anarchists vs. oligarchs, bad idea, dumb networks, ethane, freedom, freedom vs. control, intelligent networks, internet, networks, Nick McKeown, private internet, tcp/ip. One Comment.
Karen forwarded mgarthoff’s Freedom, tagged: bush war election midterm iraq katrina on YouTube.
Freedom, bush, election, freedom, george bush, george w bush, iraq, katrina, mgarthoff, midterm, midterms, politics, video, vote, voting, w, war
Posted November 5, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, election, freedom, george bush, george w bush, iraq, katrina, mgarthoff, midterm, midterms, politics, video, vote, voting, w, war. 2 Comments.
I Am Not A Terrorist.
I AM NOT A TERRORIST.
I am not a terrorist.
Democracy Now!
Burning Patriotism!
Posted October 1, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: air travel, Arabic, civil liberties, freedom, I am not a terrorist, security, t shirt, terrorism, transportation security administration, tsa, We will not be silent. Be the first one.
Quite a while ago now, stepinrazor asked people to do some self-censorhip in a post in the Flickr Ideas forum. FlyButtafly quickly joined the discussion, noting that she’d encountered some material she found offensive in pictures from other Flickr members: “as I’m going through the pictures, one shows up of a protestor holding a sign [...]
Posted August 1, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: Anthony Comstock, argument, Charles Keating, civil liberties, community standards, cultural imperialism, first amendment, flickr, free speech, freedom, J. Edgar Hoover, may offend, moral superiority, obscenity, porn, pornography. 6 Comments.
The ALA’s Intellectual Freedom folks came up with this Radical, Militant Librarian button (which I found in Library Mistress’ photostream):
In recognition of the efforts of librarians to help raise awareness of the overreaching aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is offering librarians an opportunity [...]
Posted January 16, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: button, buttons, civil liberties, freedom, intellectual freedom, liberty, librarians, libraries, patriot act, radical militant librarian, radical militant librarian button, radical militant librarian buttons, usa patriot act. 5 Comments.
Copyfight is pointing to the EFF’s new Legal Guide for Bloggers. Most of the content is about liability, but it also addresses issues of access and privilege that are generally granted to journalists, election law, and labor law. From the introduction:
Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve been seeing more and [...]
Posted June 14, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: blogger, bloggers, blogging, copyright, court, eff, free expression, free speech, freedom, law, legal, legal guide, liability, stifle. One Comment.