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.
There has been lots of woop-de-doo about Overdrive and eBooks these past few weeks. HarperCollins aside I wanted to look at how Overdrive does Apps. After all I get my ebooks from the Library and if there is a simple way to view them I'm all for it.
There are a lot of choices out there for iPhone/Android ebook reading. You can load up the Amazon App, the Sony Reader App (well assuming they are allowed to sell the app) or whatever comes native. However all of these options (plus others too) leave you a little bit boxed in for my liking. I decided to see what I could do to create my own Ebook-ish app.
Just recently SOPA became a big deal. If you haven't hear the basics 
