Comments on: Episode 41 – Interview With Stan Katz

By: Tom Jean

Tom Jean — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:48:21 +0000

Congrats that you managed to interview Stan Katz. He is an awesome guy and was also involved in the Michael Jackson Child Molestation case as an expert.

By: Caroline Bordinaro

Caroline Bordinaro — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:31:42 +0000

Librarians routinely assist faculty, researchers, graduate students, and (increasingly) undergraduates craft and refine their research projects. In fact, on many campuses, the subject specialist librarian is the go-to person in this area. Librarians have at least kept up with, if not been on the cutting edge of, the latest digital technologies for the production and dissemination of information. No need to imagine who will do this – your campus librarian is ready to help.

By: Sean Kheraj

Sean Kheraj — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:16:59 +0000

Thanks for putting together such a consistently great podcast. This is really a wonderful model for other historians and humanities researchers.

Regarding your discussion (and past discussions) about copyright, I wanted to bring your attention to a new project at the Network in Canadian History & Environment called “Notes on Knowledge Mobilisation”. I have recently started editing this page and devloping this project in order to bring attention to issues of copyright, open-access, and scholarly publishing to the Canadian environmental history community.

You can find this project at http://niche.uwo.ca/digital-infrastructure/knowmob

You can also listen to our podcast at http://niche.uwo.ca/naturespast

By: brad

brad — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:58:21 +0000

Re: the possibility that China will block Twitter

Twitter coverage tends to focus on the short messages and the social relationships, and ignores the significance of the underlying technological structure, which has huge significance for these sorts of controls. If China wanted to block Facebook, it would be quite easy, because Facebook is a website.

Twitter, however, is not a website. It is a cloud of desktop apps, browser apps, phone apps, secondary websites, IM clients, and SMS – all connected through a promiscuously open API and cloud storage. Unless Twitter itself cooperated by blocking Chinese IP addresses, it would be extraordinarily difficult for China to block Twitter, without also blocking the entire s3.amazon.com subdomain. They might be able to deter usage by blocking the Twitter.com website and the primary download sites for the most popular apps, but they wouldn’t be able to stop secondary access through peer-to-peer or temporary mirrors.

Controlling social networks will become even more challenging when we get PAST Twitter and move onto systems that are even further decoupled from the traditional “one-app one-website” model of the WWW, as we will with tools like BrdFdr (Birdfeeder) and Laconica. This is the truly revolutionary significance of Twitter (not microblogging, TweetCongress, or THE_REAL_SHAQ).