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I read 'The Public Interest Corpus Update – NYC Edition'. More work on the project's principles and goals, research and library service use cases, and thinking ahead to prospective year 1-3 and year 4-6 activities https://publicinterestcorpus.org/the-p

Expertenkritik an Smartphone-Verboten: „Fachfremder Populismus“
Statt Verbotsdebatten zu führen, sollte die Politik Medienbildung von Kindern und Jugendlichen absichern, fordern Kinderhilfswerk und Medienpädagogen.

“The Maha report is essentially a distraction from the real causes of poor health,”
said Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emerita at the University of Arizona and a founding member of Defend Public Health.
“This administration does not want to address things like poverty and education and access to healthcare.
Instead, they’re distracting the public with information on solutions to problems that don’t actually exist.
When the foundation of your policy is not evidence-based…

An Alaska fund has raised $3.5M from 80 donors in its first two months to help public radio and TV stations partially offset the ~$15M federal funding cuts (Iris Samuels/Anchorage Daily News)
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2025/09/14…

As program cuts begin in wake of federal rescission, Alaska fund raises $3.5M for public media
A partnership between radio stations and the Alaska Community Foundation seeks to fill a $15 million gap created by Congress.

I don't think I'll read anything funnier today. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/13/over-46000-public-bodies-spurned-offer-of-free-king-charles-portrait

I'm frequently despondent when I see organizations remove or hide once public Internet operational status and trending data.
At one time, lots of networks used to publish a variety of status and traffic summaries. The non-profit Internet2 for example was exemplary in this regard. Cloudflare, a commercial organization, now provides far more public benefit data than they do.
A big loss earlier this year was the once public Equinix network status page -

Introducing Equinix Status | Equinix Community - 519
Starting today you can check the status of your network products on the new Equinix Status page.  - 519

@… filmfriend.de is an offer by german public libraries to stream a large number of films for free (limited to card holders of german libraries. If your residence is outside germany, you can create a free account with Goethe Institut, than register online with the public library of Goethe Institut, than login into filmfriend.de). If you try to stream a fi…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Expertenkritik an Smartphone-Verboten: „Fachfremder Populismus“

The Radical Act behind your local library: Celebrating 175 years of public libraries https://blogs.bl.uk/thenewsroom/2025/08/celebrating-175-years-of-public-libraries-.html

Studie: Streaming-Boom flacht ab – YouTube stark
Für die Streaminganbieter sind die Jahre des riesigen Wachstums offensichtlich vorbei. Das ältere Publikum wird jetzt als Zielgruppe attraktiver.
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