Web Architect: The Crime of Sharing. John Perry Barlow. I know that this is a fairly obvious observation. That's why I'm stunned that so many kinds of sharing have suddenly, without public debate, become criminal acts. For instance, lending a book to a friend is still all right, but letting him read the same book electronically is now a theft. [Tomalak's Realm]. 

This theme came up at eLibrary 3.  This stuff is just to important to let pass, especially to those of us at Institutes of higher learning. 

eLibrary 3 was the best one yet! Jim O'Donnell gave a very provocative keynote. 

http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/elibrary/program.html

In typical UBC tradition, I was able to find the agenda for eLibrary 2 here http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/elibrary/schedule.html

Saw Howard Strauss give his talk on the Future of the Internet.  The URL link is http://webware.princeton.edu/howard/slides/future/.  A good talk with some provocative viewpoints on the strategies that universities should take when providing education in the future. 

This talk was part of the FATE, CIT and TAG speaker series: http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/facdev/services/faculty/tlt.html