Gabriel and Eno Start Digital Music Artist Union. An anonymous reader writes “We have long heard stories about how the record companies cheat their own artists with audit techniques that would make Enron … [Slashdot] [Ted Ritzer: Free Music] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

great comic, bought the book ages ago.

several people are coming here for the powerlaws abstract. it is here
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy/blog/2003/08/22.html

New issue of Science & Technology Libraries. The new issue of Science & Technology Libraries (vol. 22, no. 3/4) is now online. Many of its articles are OA-related. Only the TOC and abstracts are free online.

• Paul Ginsparg, Can Peer Review Be Better Focused?

• Michel R. Dagenais, The Future of Scientific and Technical Journals
• Catherine B. Soehner, The eScholarship Repository: A University of California Response to the Scholarly Communication Crisis
• Kimberly Douglas, Conference Proceedings at Publishing Crossroads
• Susan Hall, Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Enhancing Scholarly Communication and Graduate Student Experience
• Dana L. Roth, Chemistry Journals: Cost Effectiveness, Seminal Titles and Exchange Rate Profiteering
• John Cruickshank, The Role of Scientific Literature in Electronic Scholarly Communication
• Kate Thomas, Scholarly Communication in Flux: Entrenchment and Opportunity
• Janet A. Hughes, Issues and Concerns with the Archiving of Electronic Journals
• David Stern, User Expectations and the Complex Reality of Online Research Efforts
• Locke J. Morrisey, Bibliometric and Bibliographic Analsis in an Era of Electronic Scholarly Communication
• Gerry McKiernan, Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing

[Open Access News]

orkut is gone, gone gone, for revision

Oh The Irony!. Friday night I was walking around somewhere west of Rock Creek (Tenleytown?) trying to get from the bus stop to Sue's house and I saw a store called “Burka's Liquors.” How ironic. It would be better, of course, if it… [Matthew Yglesias]

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most people probably don't see the problem with this, and the homonym is a stretch, but there is some irony in the combination.

The Republican Net Tax. David Deans writes about Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's interest in slapping a tax on accessing the Internet…. [Joho the Blog]

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it shouldn't be taxed, tax is already collected on it.

100 reasons abstinence is doomed [bOing bOing]

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Cory hits the nail on the head with this one.

The Tyranny of Copyright?. Is copyright law curbing our freedoms and making it harder to create anything new? This could be the first new social movement of the century. By Robert S. Boynton. [New York Times: Technology] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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wired pretty much said the same thing. and it is true, intellectual property law prevents certain types of innovation or at least makes that innovation much more expensive.

orkut says today is Lisbeth's birthday, to which we say happy birthday lisbeth:)