Domain name registrations that include the word “google”. Of note: googlelibrary.com, stopgoogle.com, bannedingoogle.com, googleos.com.
Author: jessamyn
today’s long-ass article on the PATRIOT Act is….
Resolving to Resist by Elaine Scarry is a long and worthwile article on how people are resisting the USAPA.
“Despite impediments to resistance, 238 towns, cities, and counties have now created a firewall against executive trespass in their communities. Though there are many differences between the resolutions… the resistance is built out of six identifiable acts”
Thompson Publishing survey results on USA PATRIOT Act
Speaking of the USA PATRIOT Act, many of the nation’s top criminal justice experts don’t like it either according to a recently released report from Thomson Publishing. update: you can read the whole report here. [pdf]
a digital aquifer of national interest information
Towards the Digital Aquifer: introducing the Common Information Environment
“In the Knowledge Economy, ready access to high quality, high value information must become a right and an expectation for all. The Common Information Environment is a large part of the process by which we all get there.” [pscott]
another kind of web logs
Today the assistant director and I puzzled over the monthly web stats from our site trying to discern patterns and deduce meaning. I’m good with stats, but bad with ones that have been post-processed with tools I’m not super-knowledgeable about. As with many web tricks, I prefer to check the raw log files to answer questions like “Why are 2% of our hits going to the 404 page?” and “Are we just seeing an increase in hits because we finally made the library web site the home page on all library’s computers?” I encourage you to extract meaning from your web site statistics. Karen Coombs over at Library Web Chic has laid out some intro pointers on what to look for when you look at your logs.