TriMet’s tweets revisted
Hard Drive’s Joseph Rose puts TriMet’s (OR) customer communications in the spotlight again, following up on an earlier criticism of the agency’s alerts. Original post
States worry over current year budget battles in Congress
One day following a two-week reprieve from a possible government shutdown, state legislative leaders are urging their federal counterparts to find permanent solutions for this current year’s budget. In a letter from the National Conference of State Legislatures, officials said they need clarity on the level of federal funds states can expect heading into theRead… Read more »
National Broadband Network Submissions
There are now 180 published submissions to the “Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network” (including my submission) and one from Australian Computer Society I helped with). This is for the Austrlaian Parliament House Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications. I looked at the first 47 previously. The 133 latest submissionsRead… Read more »
Top 10 government proposal mistakes and how to avoid them – FREE 1-hour webinar on March 9, 2011 (1pm EST)
Neither large nor small businesses are immune to governmentproposal mistakes that often lead to highly undesirable results.However, there are ways to avoid most of them and largely decrease the risk of losing the pursuit. This coming Wednesday, March 9, 2011 (1pm EST), I am hostingFREE 1-hour webinar “Top 10 Proposal Mistakes and How to AvoidRead… Read more »
Orphan Works
Greetings from “Policy Form: Righting the Copyright Imbalance”, at the National Library of Australia, in Canberra. After “Educational Online Copying”, the last tpic for the day was orphan works. These are documents or other materials for which the copyright owner cannot be found.One of the quirks of current Austrlaian copyright law is that orphan worksRead… Read more »
Reform Agenda for Copyright
Greetings from “Policy Form: Righting the Copyright Imbalance”, at the National Library of Australia, in Canberra.After “Orphan Works” Kim Weatherall, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Queensland summarised the day. One point she made was ensuring that everyone concerned was “in the room” for discussions on copyright and also that public policy could be developedRead… Read more »
Educational Online Copying
Greetings from “Policy Form: Righting the Copyright Imbalance”, at the National Library of Australia, in Canberra. After discussing the iinet case. I skipped the next session and went to browse the new periodicals in the main NLA reading room. This was more difficult than expected, as NLA have moved the periodicals racks again.Delia Browne, Director,Read… Read more »
Safe Harbours For Information Distributors
Greetings from “Policy Form: Righting the Copyright Imbalance”, at the National Library of Australia, in Canberra. After morning tea in the surroundings of the National Library of Australia, the forum recommenced with a panel on “Safe Harbours”.Safe Harbours are legal provisions to protect those who help distribute information but don;t have much control over it,Read… Read more »
iinet Case
Greetings from “Policy Form: Righting the Copyright Imbalance”, at the National Library of Australia, in Canberra. After discussing “Safe Harbours” in general, the forum move on to look at the iinet case in detail. This case was over if ISP iiNet Ltd, allowed illegal downloading of films, TV and music. The issue was if iiNetRead… Read more »
Righting the Copyright Imbalance
Greetings from “Policy Form: Righting the Copyright Imbalance”, 4 at the National Library of Australia, in Canberra. This is a one day event organised by the Australian Digital Alliance, which is in effect a lobby group of libraries and educational institutions worried that publishers will limit their access to digital materials. The ANU is aRead… Read more »