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Today, I'm just sad, because I'm not at the ALA convention. I love ALA conventions. There are so many great sessions, you meet awesome people, and there are authors signing books, and free books! I really wish I could be there.
I hope everyone there is having fun.
So, anyway, as you know: I'm a big supporter of net neutrality. (If you don't know that already, how? Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. There's more, but that's enough for now.) Well, we've definitely been vocal about it: - the FCC has gotten a remarkable number of comments from concerned citizens. Tom Wheeler, however, plans to continue procedures without holding public hearings. Tell him we need public meetings, so people can express their opinions.
Links!
I hope everyone there is having fun.
So, anyway, as you know: I'm a big supporter of net neutrality. (If you don't know that already, how? Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. There's more, but that's enough for now.) Well, we've definitely been vocal about it: - the FCC has gotten a remarkable number of comments from concerned citizens. Tom Wheeler, however, plans to continue procedures without holding public hearings. Tell him we need public meetings, so people can express their opinions.
Links!
- Libraries, Books, & Authors:
- San Rafael Public Library has started issuing bamboo cards. Stylish and eco-friendly!
- Got Wi-Fi? Some libraries now lending hotspots
- Simon & Schuster Ends Library Ebook Pilot, Expands Access to All Interested Libraries I'm confused. Libraries can "buy" the ebooks...for a one year period? I don't know how that's different from leasing. Or perhaps the libraries are only limited to one-patron-at-a-time checkouts of the ebook for one year, but can remove that artificial limitation after that period? Am I missing something? And I really don't like the idea of turning libraries into retailers - I dislike the idea of patrons being encouraged to buy books through the library's catalog.
- Another talk: why libraries are the best thing
- I read a lot. I typically finish at a rate of five books a week - more, if I'm not working that week. But I don't read like Teddy Roosevelt read. That man was a reading machine! Teddy Roosevelt’s 10 Rules for Reading
- Net & Tech:
- Science:
- Solar Panel Acreage Needed to Power the Entire Planet: 158 mi x 158 mi Wow!
- Genetically Modified Bacteria Could Prevent Obesity
- Anti Vaxxers Lose New York Court Battle
- Other:
- The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats : By Nick Hanauer
- Well, this one is just flat-out weird: Michigan GOP candidate: Ignore my arrests for publicly masturbating in other people’s cars He says it was "youthful indiscretion," and he might be right - but the last offense was in 2011, and that's not that far back...
- Uh...GOP Candidate Charges Opponent Is Dead, Represented By A Body Double This is a different guy, in Oklahoma. What is going on?
- The unbelievable lengths Virginia Republicans went to to block Medicaid expansion
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