Category: ‘puters

An idea whose time has come: Radical Reference. Originally planned for the RNC protests, it has already expanded to fill other pressing radical informationneeds. Here’s a recent article from the NY Sun about it. A little more information at the NYC Indymedia site. Now that’s more in the MYbrarian model, don’t you think?

Google Guide is a site that helps nvoice and experienced users learn more about how to effectively use Google. The author has written How to do Everything with Google and has released this tutorial site under a Creative Commons license. Apparently she did some serious research on Google Answers to prepare.

Meanwhile, while the DoJ’s memo trying to get depository documents destroyed has made the big time, OutragedModerates.org is offering goverment documents via P2P networks, including a draft of PATRIOT II, a DoJ report on USA PATRIOT Act violations and the 9/11 Commission’s report. Please check out Download for Democracy. Remember: “the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”

Google circa 1960

The Librarians Against Bush web site now has its own blog. [thanks pam]