I have finally committed version 0.1 of my jQuery Mobile inspired wrapper that will create a mobile browser version of a Millennium Innovative Interfaces Inc. web Opac. (Gosh that was a mouthful)
Yesterday was Internet blackout day. To do my little part I followed Wikipedia, 2600, Reddit and a host of other by blacking out my site. So just how many people were inconvenienced by what I did?
Copyfraud is now available in Canada. Shortly after blogging about the American experience I'm now noticing an instance of Copyfraud north of the 40th Parallel. I can't take credit for finding it myself, I read about it on the Excess Copyright blog.
Just recently SOPA became a big deal. If you haven't hear the basics Michael Geist provides a snappy overview. The intersection of copyright and internet access issues have really come into the main stream in the past year or so.
"Re-Purposing OpenURL Meta data to create Journal OPAC records" Or "Taking Fuzzy Data from a Black Box, crossing your fingers and putting it in the OPAC
I still remember the first hack that I witnessed with my own eyes. My buddy we'll call him 'G', and I were sitting in front of a computer in our High School Grade 10 programming class. Some of the specifics escape me but it was an amazing bit of computer work.