- TreePeople’s diplomatic work in the LA area. “We know it doesn’t work when you go in and tell a community ‘This is how it’s going to be.’ (thanks mark)
- Six ways to rewild consumer culture, according to adbusters. Step 1: subvertise.
- My congressman Waxman’s getting frustrated he can’t get Bush’s admin to release docs that would prove whether or not the Bush admin covered up global warming info. “The committee isn’t trying to obtain state secrets or documents that could affect our immediate national security,” said Waxman …. “We are simply seeking answers to whether the White House’s political staff is inappropriately censoring impartial government scientists.”
- Google and its effort to digitize all sortsa books. My current opinion is pro-Google’s efforts, as it obeys fair use laws and already lets authors who don’t want their digitized works avaliable online to opt out —
I gotta say that (a) I love google books and (2) it’s helped me discover books that I didn’t even know existed which I subsequently went out and purchased. I’ve also used it, on occasion, as an index for books which I own (and in one case, as a way of turning of bibliographic info on a book which I owned but couldn’t remember the exact author/title and I wasn’t at home). When my book gets published, I’ll make sure that I’ve opted in.
Comment by don hosek — January 31, 2007 @ 9:43 am