http://www.oralliterature.org/

An urgent global initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/09/rogue-archivist-beer.html

(Thanks to F. E.)

Peter Murray-Rust on open bibliographic data:

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2786

http://nixonara.wordpress.com

A new blog by Maarja Krusten, former NARA-archivist.

http://www.japanairraids.org/



Via
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/news/20101206p2a00m0na020000c.html

When Monica Gaudio noticed that the online Magazine, Cooks Source, copied one of her articles from her website and published it without her permission, she asked for an apology and a $130 donation to the Columbia Journalism School. The magazine editor, Judith Griggs, explained that "the web is considered 'public domain' and you should be happy we just didn't 'lift' your whole article and put someone else's name on it!"
http://gawker.com/5681770/magazine-editor-steals-article-tells-writer-you-should-compensate-me
http://www.fastcompany.com/1700763/3-steps-to-avoid-being-the-next-cooks-source
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/11/05/131091599/the-day-the-internet-threw-a-righteous-hissyfit-about-copyright-and-pie?ps=cprs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooks_Source_infringement_controversy

Via
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-10.htm

Michael F. Suarez, "The Codex, the Digital Image, and the Problems of Presence," is available (as audio file) on the Bridwell Library website at:

http://www.smu.edu/Bridwell/About/NewsandEvents/Previous%20Lectures.aspx

"Originally delivered on October 28, 2010 at Southern Methodist University, the lecture considered how digital surrogates are changing the ways we think about books and what the implications of these changes might be. In turn, the lecture asked how books and bibliographical reflection might usefully change the ways we think about 'books' delivered to us as digital images. Insights from art history, philosophy, and anthropology were adduced to enrich our thinking about this timely subject.

Michael F. Suarez, S.J. is Director of Rare Book School and Professor of English and University Professor at the University of Virginia."

http://www.africaportal.org/

"A key feature to the Africa Portal is the online library collection holding over 2,500 books, journals, and digital documents related to African policy issues. The entire online repository is open access and available for free full-text download. A portion of the digital documents housed in the library have been digitized for the first time as an undertaking of the Africa Portal project. "

http://buythissatellite.org/

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE6AP06Z20101126

The United States has briefed Britain, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Israel ahead of the expected new release of classified U.S. documents, WikiLeaks said on Thursday, citing local press reports.

The whistle-blowing website said by Twitter that American diplomats briefed government officials of its six allies in advance of the release expected in the next few days.

The next release is expected to include thousands of diplomatic cables reporting corruption allegations against politicians in Russia, Afghanistan and other Central Asian nations, sources familiar with the State Department cables held by WikiLeaks told Reuters on Wednesday.

The allegations are major enough to cause serious embarrassment for foreign governments, the sources said.