The strike by city workers in Vancouver (including Vancouver Public Library employees) has reached its fifth week. http://unionlibrarian.blogspot.com/ is one of the best places online for updates.
- JH
Archive for August, 2007
Police Attempt to Provoke Riot at Montebello Protest
Just a quick follow-up to DJ’s earlier post about the Montebello meetings…
Quebec police admit they went undercover at Montebello protest (but not that they got busted for, of all things, wearing police-issue boots, while “undercover”!)
- JH
How Long Does It Take Business Students To Unionize When Treated Unfairly?
If you guessed eight minutes, you’re right.
- JH
Friday Fun Link - ALA Rural Librarianship Survey (Aug 24, 2007)
The ALA recently released a survey of rural librarians with all kinds of interesting, enlightening and downright depressing comments and statistics.
With fully one half of your friendly neighbourhood LA contributor team working in rural library settings, this survey also hits close to home (although I do believe that the situation in Canada for salaries and working conditions is much better than in the US for the most part.)
(via the always jam-packed ALA weekly e-newsletter which, unfortunately isn’t online)
- JH
Human Rights Archival Conference
The Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research is holding a free conference this October 4-6, 2007 on the subject of Human Rights Archives and Documentation.
Link to the conference.
-PC-
Friday Fun Link - See Who’s Editing Wikipedia (August 17, 2007)
Wikipedia allows anonymous edits but it does track the IP of anyone who makes the edit. So a Cal-Tech computer grad student, inspired by news last year that Congress members’ offices had been editing their own entries, and curious whether other organizations were doing anything similar, developed a program to make it much easier to see the affiliation of anyone who made edits to any Wikipedia page.
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This has led to numerous revelations about corporations like Fox News, organizations like the CIA and individuals such as staffers for a current US Presidential candidate abusing the intent of Wikipedia
(via MetaFilter which has lots of other links I didn’t include in this post)
- JH
Bush in Montebello
My 74 year old father has been heard to say such things as “George W. Bush and his whole crew are evil, evil people” and “I don’t think Stephen Harper is doing much as Bush’s lackey”. If my DAD is saying stuff like that, then something is quite obviously seriously wrong.
Next week, George W. Bush , Stephen Harper and Felipe Calderón (Mexico) will be discussing the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in Montebello, Québec. The SPP aims to be a trilateral force to increase both security and prosperity amongst the three nations. Really this is just more intensified intercontinental integration and collusion amongst government, the military, and corporations.
There are a lot of actions happening in and around Ottawa, as well as around Canada. Check and spread these links and come out to show them.
Events, Places, Times:
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/4934.shtml
The SPP in their words:
http://www.spp.gov/
Council of Canadians ABC of SPP
http://www.canadians.org/integratethis/backgrounders/guide/ABCs.html
All of these have links to actions, information, people to contact and places to be.
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Friday Fun Link - “I Swear” (Aug 10, 2007)
- How Swearing Works
- BBC’s List of Most Offensive Words (in ranked order)
- Urban Dictionary - a user-created dictionary of slang including many offensive terms. Great for understanding the latest teen slang.
- The Great Internet Swearword Project - picking between two choices helps define the “best swear words in the world“.
- Learn To Swear in any Language
- Letter Cursing - How to Swear Without Swearing
- The Greatest Swearing Moments in Cinematic History
- JH
Name Canada’s Public Domain Registry
Access Copyright has partnered with Creative Commons and WikiMedia (the people behind Wikipedia) to create a ground-breaking public domain registry that they hope becomes a model for the rest of the world.
Here’s an announcement they recently sent out:
Name the Public Domain Registry!
A product is only as good as the name you give it.
As reported in our most recent newsletter (July 26, 2007), Access Copyright has been working with Creative Commons and the Wikimedia Foundation on a Canadian Public Domain Registry. The registry will be an online, globally searchable database of Canadian works in the public domain and it will allow users to search and edit records, similar to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. For more information on the registry, please click here.
While the new registry will be both comprehensive and accessible, it also requires an easily identifiable name, which is where you come in. The public domain project needs your creative input. And who better to ask than our affiliates - Canada’s greatest creative resource!
Our hope at Access Copyright is that the new online registry will be a model for similar systems from other parts of the globe. As such, the name should brief, catchy, and one which could work for other countries wishing to create a registry of its own public domain works. Other than that, the only limits are your imagination and originality.
This is your chance to be an integral part of this ground-breaking project. Please send any and all suggestions, whether a list of one or 100, via email to the Communications Department at editor@accesscopyright.ca. We will pare down the list and keep you posted on what the winning name is.
We appreciate your feedback as we move forward with this exciting project.
- JH