Week 14- Comments
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Friday, December 5, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
READING WEEK #13
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
It was very interesting reading the many articles on this site. Some examples were EPIC Urges Scrutiny of Proposed Federal Profiling Agency This office would oversee vast databases of digital fingerprints and photographs, eye scans and personal information from millions of American citizens and lawful foreign visitors. Homeland Security has announced that the office's operations would be conducted in a manner that safeguards civil liberties, but the agency has not yet explained how it proposes to protect privacy rights or ensure accountability. Another was Study Finds Extensive Data Mining in Federal Agencies. The General Accounting Office has issued a report (pdf) that identifies almost 200 data mining projects throughout the federal government that are either operational or in the planning stage. Many of them make use of personally identifiable data obtained from private sector databases. Sen. Daniel Akaka, who requested the study, released a statement and said, "It is time that we review agency practices and existing law to ensure that the privacy rights of individuals are not violated through the development of new technology." (May 27)
I was glad to be made aware of how to obtain this type of information.
When I went to find this site, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8ywG5M_NQ this message appeared at the top of the page This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc.
This was the first time I have come across not being able to view something because of a copyright claim.
No Place to Hide Site
These are the words that appear at the top of the site:
When you go to work, stop at the store, fly in a plane, or surf the web, you are being watched. They know where you live, the value of your home, the names of your friends and family, in some cases even what you read. Where the data revolution meets the needs of national security, there is no place to hide.
This is what the site is about: No Place To Hide is a multimedia investigation by news organizations working together across print and broadcast platforms, to make a greater impact than any one organization could alone.
According to Michiko Kakutani in the The New York Times wrote No Place to Hide - an America where citizens' 'right to be let alone,' as Justice Louis Brandeis of the Supreme Court once put it, is increasingly imperiled, where more and more components of our daily lives are routinely monitored, recorded and analyzed."
This is a site where you can find out different kinds of investigations that are being conducted by the government.
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It was very interesting reading the many articles on this site. Some examples were EPIC Urges Scrutiny of Proposed Federal Profiling Agency This office would oversee vast databases of digital fingerprints and photographs, eye scans and personal information from millions of American citizens and lawful foreign visitors. Homeland Security has announced that the office's operations would be conducted in a manner that safeguards civil liberties, but the agency has not yet explained how it proposes to protect privacy rights or ensure accountability. Another was Study Finds Extensive Data Mining in Federal Agencies. The General Accounting Office has issued a report (pdf) that identifies almost 200 data mining projects throughout the federal government that are either operational or in the planning stage. Many of them make use of personally identifiable data obtained from private sector databases. Sen. Daniel Akaka, who requested the study, released a statement and said, "It is time that we review agency practices and existing law to ensure that the privacy rights of individuals are not violated through the development of new technology." (May 27)
I was glad to be made aware of how to obtain this type of information.
When I went to find this site, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8ywG5M_NQ this message appeared at the top of the page This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc.
This was the first time I have come across not being able to view something because of a copyright claim.
No Place to Hide Site
These are the words that appear at the top of the site:
When you go to work, stop at the store, fly in a plane, or surf the web, you are being watched. They know where you live, the value of your home, the names of your friends and family, in some cases even what you read. Where the data revolution meets the needs of national security, there is no place to hide.
This is what the site is about: No Place To Hide is a multimedia investigation by news organizations working together across print and broadcast platforms, to make a greater impact than any one organization could alone.
According to Michiko Kakutani in the The New York Times wrote No Place to Hide - an America where citizens' 'right to be let alone,' as Justice Louis Brandeis of the Supreme Court once put it, is increasingly imperiled, where more and more components of our daily lives are routinely monitored, recorded and analyzed."
This is a site where you can find out different kinds of investigations that are being conducted by the government.
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Friday, November 28, 2008
MUDDIEST POINT #13
My muddiest point has been trying to connect to the internet and post. I have called everyone for help and have been told there seems to be no problem. When I try to connect it is only for a little while. I later find out things that I think have been posted are not. This has been very frustrating for me.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
READING WEEK #12
Using a Wiki by Charles Allan
This article stated that library instruction wikis have two chief uses : the sharing of knowledge and the ability to cooperate in creating resources, such as informational handouts and guides. It gave good and clear instructions on how to access commercial sites on the internet and create a wiki. Examples were given of how libraries use wikis to manage information and the development of instructional programs dealing with changing information and gaining independently held bits of knowledge. I have not had the experience of using a wiki at my library but think it would be a good way of communication for our poster projects.
Folkaonomy by Xan Arch
Xan Arch explains the phenomenon of social tagging which allows an individual to create bookmarks (or tags) for Web sites and save them online. Librarians can provide an index to quality Internet resources created by the librarians at their institutions. Librarians and faculty working in a subject area could immediately and easily share sites they find. One must be careful of spam tagging where users with bad intentions can tag unsuitable sites for their own profit or create havoc. Even though a true folksonomy is one without restraints I think there should be some control over the information that is included in sites open for all library patrons.
This article stated that library instruction wikis have two chief uses : the sharing of knowledge and the ability to cooperate in creating resources, such as informational handouts and guides. It gave good and clear instructions on how to access commercial sites on the internet and create a wiki. Examples were given of how libraries use wikis to manage information and the development of instructional programs dealing with changing information and gaining independently held bits of knowledge. I have not had the experience of using a wiki at my library but think it would be a good way of communication for our poster projects.
Folkaonomy by Xan Arch
Xan Arch explains the phenomenon of social tagging which allows an individual to create bookmarks (or tags) for Web sites and save them online. Librarians can provide an index to quality Internet resources created by the librarians at their institutions. Librarians and faculty working in a subject area could immediately and easily share sites they find. One must be careful of spam tagging where users with bad intentions can tag unsuitable sites for their own profit or create havoc. Even though a true folksonomy is one without restraints I think there should be some control over the information that is included in sites open for all library patrons.
MUDDIEST POINT #11
I enjoyed getting the information to the locations of various digital websites. My muddiest point is will we be able to access the information we are getting in the classes after the classes are over or should we be downloading the information we are interested in keeping?
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