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<p align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">OPLIN 4cast #54 -
May 8, 2007</span></b></p>
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<p class="style4">This week’s <em>4cast</em><b>:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1.<strong> Oh Dewey, You Old Coot</strong></span></p>
<blockquote>
<p>In his new book, <em><a
href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122291427&tab=holdings"
target="_blank">Everything Is Miscellaneous</a></em>,
David Weinberger argues that the Internet and the onset of inherently
chaotic organizational models (like tagging), are destroying
traditional, structured, straightforward methodologies of describing
things (i.e. traditional librarianship). </p>
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<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/02/everything_is_miscel.html"
target="_blank">Everything is Miscellaneous - how the Web destroys
categories, disciplines and hierarchies</a> (Boing Boing)</li>
<li><a
href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/metacrap_and_fl.html"
target="_blank">Metacrap and Flickr Tags: An Interview with Cory
Doctorow</a> (Epicenter)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/05/weinbergers-well-ordered-miscellany.html"
target="_blank">Weinberger's Well-ordered Miscellany</a> (ALA
TechSource)</li>
<li><a href="http://freegovinfo.info/node/1149" target="_blank">"Everything
is Miscellaneous"</a> (Free Government Information) </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2. <strong>There's Still Time To Be
Ahead of the Pack</strong></span> </p>
<blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_ICT_Typology.pdf"
target="_blank">latest report from the Pew Internet & American
Life Project (PDF)</a>
report focuses on Internet usage among American adults, and finds that
as the geeks obsess over Web 2.0, most of us still haven't mastered Web
1.0.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://searchengineland.com/070507-095250.php"
target="_blank">Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority</a>
(Search Engine Land)</li>
<li><a
href="http://news.com.com/Wired+but+not+Web+2.0+Thats+normal,+study+says/2100-1041_3-6181884.html"
target="_blank">Wired but not Web 2.0? That's normal, study says</a>
(CNET News)</li>
<li><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-half-of-americans-irritated-by-life-online-15-percent-log-off-completely.html"
target="_blank">Half of Americans irritated by life online, 15 percent
log off completely</a> (Ars Technica)</li>
<li><a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070507/web-2eh/"
target="_blank">Web 2.0 Audience in Mirror May Be Smaller Than It
Appears</a> (Digital Daily)</li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3. <strong>Introducing the 21st
Century Mob </strong></span> </p>
<blockquote>
<p>Last
week, an anonymous hacker, who was having trouble playing a lawfully
purchased HD-DVD movie, managed to crack the hidden, 16-digit "key"
that unlocks the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management"
target="_blank">DRM</a>
technology built into all HD-DVDs. When this number was posted on
various websites, the group owning that technology (AACS) sent letters
threatening to sue any site relaying the number. Outraged netizens
responded by taking over the popular community-driven news website <a
href="http://www.digg.com/" target="_blank">Digg</a>, publishing the
secret code anywhere they could, and provoking the legal wrath of the
AACS. </p>
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<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6615047.stm"
target="_blank">DVD DRM row sparks user rebellion</a> (BBC)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/technology/03code.html"
target="_blank">In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly</a> (New
York Times) </li>
<li><a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/digg-surrenders-to-mob/"
target="_blank">Digg Surrenders to Mob</a> (TechCrunch)</li>
<li><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070504-aacs-la-internet-revolt-be-damned-this-fight-is-not-over.html"
target="_blank">AACS LA: Internet "revolt" be damned, this fight is
not over</a> (Ars Technica) </li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4.<strong> Do Dusty Bytes Just
Disappear? </strong></span></p>
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<p>When
a book goes out of print, an old copy (or three) is probably preserved
somewhere in a library. But what happens when a blogger stops writing?
Or an article only available online disappears? Librarians and
archivists are worried about a potential "<a
href="http://cjournal.concordia.ca/journalarchives/2006-07/mar_22/009022.shtml"
target="_blank">digital dark age</a>." </p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleid=CA6430408"
target="_blank">Saving Digital History</a> (Library Journal)</li>
<li><a
href="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/05/saving_our_hist.html"
target="_blank">Saving our history 01101001001110-style</a>
(LibrarianInBlack)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/business/yourmoney/11archive.html"
target="_blank">History, Digitized (and Abridged)</a> (New York Times)
</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.librarian.net/stax/1996/society-for-american-archivists-changes-stance-on-listserv-archives/"
target="_blank">Society of American Archivists changes stance on
listserv archives</a> (librarian.net)</li>
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