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Information Commons, Copyright, Censorship and/or withdrawal of public information, Libraries: Digital and other

BarCampRDU sponsors (so far)

Fred has been updating the growing list of sponsors for BarCampRDU (July 22 and with a waiting list). Helpful and giving group include:

* Red Hat – Red Hat is providing the BarCampRDU venue.
* 6th Sense Analytics – 6th Sense Analytics will sponsor the BarCampRDU T-shirts.
* The Aurora Funds – The Aurora Funds will sponsor breakfast, snacks and materials
* rPath – rPath will sponsor the lunch session at BarCampRDU.
* Council for Entrepreneurial Development – CEDNC is helping to sponsor our pre-BarCamp activities.
* Blogads – Blogads is helping to sponsor our pre-BarCamp activities.
* Ibiblio.org – Technical Sponsor
* Pragmatic Programmers – The Pragmatic Programmers are donating their excellent books to be given away at BarCampRDU.
* Manning Publications – Manning Publications has kindly donated books to be given away at BarCampRDU

And more to come. Thanks to all these great folks for supporting the RDU community and to Fred for doing a bang up job of organizing.

James Joyce, Copyright, Destruction and the Scholarly Pursuit

New Yorker is carrying a long and, as one might expect from New Yorker, complex and detailed article about Stephen Joyce, grandson of James, and his war with scholars. Copyright extension has aided him in his battle against scholarship, but also his battle for his family’s privacy as well as for their profits. On the side of the scholars: Larry Lessig. Lessig’s blog is silent on the topic at the moment. But entries from February 2004 and earlier (buried in comments) show that Larry’s been miffed by Stephen for some years now.

Also on BoingBoing, where I was alerted to the New Yorker article.

UPDATE: Lessig’s blog now has a post on Schloss v Joyce.

BarCampRDU full up! Organizers needed

We have 150 folks signed up for BarCampRDU (way to go Fred!) — OpenNMS’s Tarus Balog is number 150 (oops one person dropped so Tarus is 149 — YOU can be lucky 150! Go sign up NOW!).

Fred has sent out a call for Organizers (5) and Volunteers (10) on the BarCampRDUBlog. If you are already signed up for BarCamp, read the Call and join the Organizers and/or Volunteers or even consider being a speaker by adding that to the Wiki.

BarCampRDU

Lyceum – Smallwood Press Release

The news is going out on the Smallwood gift to ibiblio and the Lyceum project. I actually said/wrote some of what I’m quoted as saying. Thanks to Kelly and Wanda and especially to the Smallwood folks and to the Lyceum developers — here at ibiblio that’s JJB, Fred and Jameson.

Lyceum—innovative software for blogging

By KELLY MURPHY and WANDA MONROE
UNC School of Information and Library Science

Chapel Hill – Great news for those who create or wish to create two or many thousands of blogs (Web logs) with just one installation! Staff and students of ibiblio, located in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are developing innovative blogging software that allows individual communication exchange as well as large and varied group communication.
A powerful Web publishing system, Lyceum builds on WordPress software and allows for ease of use while maintaining high performance and security.
Lyceum, the multi-blog WordPress derivative, may accommodate installations with two or 200,000 blogs. It is ideal for corporate intranets or universities that need secure, manageable, and high performance blogging services for thousands of users. It expands on the familiar features, interface and tools of WordPress for users and administrators.
“As the Internet has grown and evolved, it has become a place of collaboration, a forum for discussion and a medium used to exchange information at the click of a button,” said Paul Jones, director of ibiblio. “This growth is exemplified by the open source software, blogs and other communication tools being used every day on the Web. What better way to expand on enhancing these opportunities to share ideas and thoughts than to offer software to make it easy to create and install blogs?”
The emerging generation of Web tools is often described as Web 2.0. According to the O’Reilly Network, which spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences, the concept of Web 2.0 emerged during a conference brainstorming session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International. Web 2.0 is an emerging generation of Web tools and one of its components is “social software.” Among this new software are blogs, wikis, trackback, podcasting and videoblogs.
A gift of $25,000 was awarded to SILS to create a fellowship in open source. The fellowship will be used to continue the development of the Lyceum blogging system, which is open source. The funding provided by the Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation, a grant-making foundation that promotes technology and education, will assist in refining the program and making it available to users around the world.
“The visionary gift from the Smallwood Foundation will allow us to take the next steps in innovation with Lyceum, that is to move the project from an early test state to software that can be widely used by a vibrant contributing community,” said Jones.
The $25,000 gift counts toward the university’s Carolina First Campaign goal of $2 billion. Carolina First is a comprehensive, multi-year, private fund-raising campaign to support Carolina’s vision of becoming the nation’s leading public university.
Home to one of the largest “collections of collections” on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. To access the collections of ibiblio, visit the Web site at: www.ibiblio.org
To test the Lyceum software, visit the “Lyceum Demo Installation” site at: http://demo.lyceum.ibiblio.org

Mugshot testers?

Want to be a Mugshot tester?
I have a few invites that I will share under some not too onerous conditions:

  1. You should be someone I actually know.
  2. You should join the ibiblio group so we can be in touch.
  3. You should be able to use the client — that means for now that you are running Windows XP or Linux Fedora (this makes me sad).
  4. You should then actually use Mugshot for a while.
  5. You should let me know what you think of it and how we might make use of Mugshot here at ibiblio.

That’s it. Drop me a note if interested. Supplies are limited.

McCurry vs Newmark – PR vs Experience

Dan Gillmor and Ed Cone (for two) cover the Wall Street Journal sponsored email exchange between telecom industry PR guy Mike McCurry and principled enterpreneur Craig Newmark (not that I’m biased ;->) on Net Neutrality. Both Gillmor and Cone point out that Newmark wins on the facts. He gets extra points by actually knowing them as opposed to McCurry who cites his employers without, he admits, clearly understanding what it’s all about. McCurry can spin, but Newmark clearly wins.

Institute for the Future of the Book in Library Journal

ibiblian alum Jesse Wilbur writes to let us know that the Institute for the Future of the Book, where he now works, is subject of the cover article on the current Library Journal, “The Social Life of Books.” A good read after or beside the Kevin Kelly article in Sunday’s NYTimes article.

Jesse also writes:

We’re launching GAM3R 7H30RY very soon, McKenzie Wark’s newest book (he also wrote The Hacker Manifesto). We’re putting it up online before it’s coming out in print. Plus we’ve done some interesting things with the interface to 1) test the form of a networked book, 2) support the unique structure of his book, 3) encourage discussion about Wark’s book and networked books in general.

Institute for the Future of the Book’s authoring tool, Sophie, which is described as “an open-source platform for creating and reading electronic books for the networked environment” is due to be released in July.

The Institute blog, if:book, is a rich resource among the articles are some by Jesse about “digital comics.”

WiFi for Chapel Hill – Meeting

Carrboro just declared a project and put up a website and businesses that wanted to play set their WiFi ids as the same and presto they had a nice little ad hoc network, but Chapel Hill is all grown up and stuff so we’ll have meetings. Here’s the info about the first big one:

Community Forum on Municipal Wireless Services
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The Chapel Hill Town Council invites you to participate in exploring the issues surrounding establishing free or low-cost wireless Internet services. We will discuss a range of opportunities and challenges surrounding the deployment of broadband-wireless services and establishing municipal-area networks. Please join the conversation.

When: 7 – 9 p.m. Thursday, May 18
Where: Chapel Hill Town Hall 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Moderator: Dr. Shannon Howle Schelin, Center for Public Technology, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government

Presenters:
Casey Lide, Baller Herbst Law Group, Washington, D.C.
Lynda Goff, WinstonNet, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Ray Reitz, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public Schools
Chad Johnston, The Peoples Channel

Questions or Comments?
You are invited to participate by attending the forum at Chapel Hill Town Hall, or by watching live coverage on Government Cable 18.

Call in questions during the forum at 968-2888 ext. 368 or email tio@townofchapelhill.org

[links later – 2 o’clock meeting]

Jones on iBlogCom chat tomorrow at 3 EDT

I’m doing an online chat on iBlogCom tomorrow a 3 EDT with Sudha Jamthe. We’ll be talking about “Participatory Media Communities” and whatever else comes up. They have a good description of what’s up on their site at the link above.

Please join us this Tuesday, May 9, at noon Pacific Time (3 PMEastern Time) at http://iblogcom.blogspot.com/

When you arrive at that blog, click on the diamond on right to join the chat. It will be green when the chat is open.

You can savor my poor typing and spelling in real time there ;->

Panel at Beyond Broadcast

Here’s what I’m up for in the scheduled portion of the Berkman Center’s Beyond Broadcast conference on Friday:

Panel II: What the emerging participatory web media services are doing

* This is a panel of ‘web-only media’- emergent participatory and social media entrepreneurs. This is a vibrant and growing field with new entrants seemingly coming ever day. From Our Media to YouTube, Odeo to BrightCove, Conversations Network to Global Voices – people are using new media to facilitate citizen participation not just through text and blogging but now with digital audio and video. Is this the future of public media? What are the opportunities for cross-pollination with public broadcasting? What is the nature of this ‘third zone’ of media that is not quite commercial or noncommercial, public or mainstream?

Panelists include; Lynne D. Johnson (videoblogger), Bill Gannon (Yahoo!), Paul Jones (ibiblio).
Moderator: Peter Armstrong

Beyond Broadcast at Harvard’s Berkman

I’ll be up in Cambridge MA at the end of the week for the Berkman Center’s Beyond Broadcast conference. If you’re going to be there, let me know and consider signing up for the Birds of a Feather Dinner Discussions.

The one with me as convener is:

“What technologies and practices will define the next media revolutions?”

Some of this discussion will come from the discussionn by the panels, but other ideas might not have had time to gestate and will need to be made clearer in discussion with others who are passionate and imaginative. Not just tech. Not ideas without tech. But the interaction of personal, social and technical. But what? Bring your opinions and your guesses and your visions

* Cambridge Common – 1667 Massachusetts Ave. and Lizard Lounge

Some interesting folks have already signed up, so’s we’ll have a great discussion I’m sure. I want to learn more about dotSub and about SecondLife’s future thinking (for example).

UPDATE: All the seats at my table are now filled up. There is still room on the waiting list tho and on other BoF dinners.

Open Source Software for Public Health

In a conversation a minute ago with some one who asked “If you wanted to run a Public Health Department on Open Source Software, what would you use?”
Other than Linux as the servers and maybe Ubantu desktops, I was stuck. I’ll be looking for answers, but if you have any suggestions — particularly those that are specific to public health systems — please let me know.

LRW Knowledge Trust in Granada

Who was there:

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