This clip touches on email, print media and wristwatches among other irrelevancies to today’s students. Made for the Association of Fraternity Advisors (!!) Presenter is mildly annoying and you need to watch past the first 56 seconds.
Entries from February 2008
Are you relevant ?
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Online academic libraries dos and don’ts
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments
A library blogger at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Library has listed Ten Great Things an Online Academic Library Can Do and Ten Brainless Things an Online Academic Library Can Do. I don’t agree with everything on both lists, but most of it rings very true.
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Creative Commons items added to catalogue
February 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Nebraska Library Commission has added online works released under a Creative Commons License to their catalogue.NLC tries Creative Commons . This is something to watch out for as more items are published under CC and online only.
The items added are:
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (OCLC 192003856)
- Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow (OCLC 192003897)
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (OCLC 192003917)
- Trigger Happy by Stephen Poole (OCLC 192003815)
- Shike by Robert J. Shea (OCLC 192003727)
- My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel by Steven Brust (OCLC 192003635)
- The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig (OCLC 192004088)
- Code version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig
- Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
Tags: Library
Legal aspects of Web 2.0
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments
At Beyond the Hype, I went to a presentation by Elliott Bledsoe, a lawyer who works in the Creative Industries faculty at QUT, principally involved with Creative Commons. He presented about this report: Legal Aspects of Web 2.0 Activities: Management of Legal Risk Associated with Use of YouTube, MySpace and Second Life.
Basically, if we can control whether an item is on a site or not (eg comments), we are responsible for it, thus the publisher, thus liable if there are legal implications - eg. defamation.
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