Wikipedia is likely to start cooperation with Library of Congress and the United States Holocaust Museum. This will be an important milestone not only for those organizations, but for the cause of copyleft, since those who want to cooperate with Wikipedia have to address that issue.
Jul 20 2006 Slow night
Lots of interesting things to check out in the nights delicious links, but as I found myself engaged in a rather spirited argument over at CNET’s Buzz Out Loud forums I haven’t been able to write about them. The thread itself is pretty interesting as I discuss the issue with a staunchly anti-neutrality individual.
Jul 20 2006 links for 2006-07-20
Gizmo Project makes all VoIP to landline calls free. Forever. - Engadget
(tags: voip)
EFF: DeepLinks
(tags: wiretapping ATT)
Last week we saw the broadcast and print media pick up on Senator Ted Steven’s “series of tubes” speech after it consumed the blogosphere. Most of these stories focused on the comedy of the word “tubes”. Many offered the apology that his analogy was sound, but he just used the word “tubes” instead of the more commonly used “pipes”. But there is more to the story of the Senator’s statement. He clearly doesn’t understand the issue of net neutrality.
Jul 18 2006 Welcome Liz Pruszko!
Digital Citizen would like to welcome Liz Pruszko! You may remember Liz from the Digital Nugget MPAA vs. the Pirates. Liz will be providing news and thoughts on happenings in the world of copyright policy and digital rights management.
Jul 18 2006 links for 2006-07-18
Boing Boing: Report: Indian gov blocks Blogspot, Typepad, Geocities blogs (UPDATED)
(tags: politics speech)
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Call for ‘illegal’ MP3 site talks
(tags: allofmp3 g8)
Broadband’s double-digit growth coming to an end
(tags: universalaccess)
Linguist has message for Democrats | Chicago Tribune
(tags: language politics)
DailyTech - YouTube Gets Sued by News Company
IANAL but unless these guys sent DMCA notices for each infringing piece of content I don’t know if they have a leg to stand on…
(tags: dmca copyright)
Open Source » Blog Archive » Google-Earthing the North Korean Military
(tags: google spy)
Jul 16 2006 EFF Action on Wiretapping
PA Senator Arlen Specter’s proposed compromise regarding the secret, unauthorized wiretapping conducted by this administration will effectively sweep all court cases regarding the wiretapping out of the public eye by sending them to the FISA court.
Call to action.
Jul 15 2006 Wikipedia news flash - 15 July 2006
Rosenzweig’s excellent academic article on Wikipedia.
Wikimania is almost here.
Stable version is on the way.
Read on for more!
Jul 14 2006 Welcome new contributers!
Digital Citizen would like to welcome Brad Kozlek and Piotr Konieczny! Brad and Piotr will be blogging and participating in the podcast in the coming episodes…


