Uncontrolled Vocabulary #22 - Nowhere near Nebraska

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #22 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Karin Dalziel, University of Missouri-Columbia student
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Facebook Beacon
Thoughts on Beacon (The Facebook Blog)
Facebook Is Always Watching You (Wired)
About Face(book) (Fortune)
Zuckerberg Caves In, Lets Facebook Users Turn Off Beacon (Wired)
Facebook's Beacon was illegal as well as dumb (Boing Boing)
Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy (New York Times)

2. On not winning the Nobel Prize (Nobelprize.org)
In Nobel Speech, Doris Lessing Blames the Internet for a Decline in Book Reading (Chronicle of Higher Education)

3. House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites (CNET News.com)
Wi-Fi 'illegal images' politician defends legislation (CNET News.com)

4. A Librarian's Worst Nightmare (Slate)

5. Pooling Scholars’ Digital Resources (Inside Higher Ed)
Zotero Commons: Who Needs Libraries? (Library 2.0)

6. Max Planck Society terminates licensing contract with Springer publishing house (heise online)

7. Book Talk Flap Followed by Librarian’s Dismissal (AL Online)

8. Some initial thoughts on library advertising in Facebook (The Distant Librarian)