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In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

  
  Samizdat: Co-op Engine
Now that Samizdat has finally become a mature open publishing system, the road is cleared for more intrusive changes and major new features, such as free exchange and calendaring.
Samizdat is compared against Drupal, Plone, Wordpress, and Spip for requirements and wishes of Indymedia activists: CMS Survey Report, discussion on samizdat-devel.
Samizdat provides users with means to cooperate and coordinate on all kinds of activities, including media activism, resource sharing, education and research, advocacy, and so on.
www.nongnu.org /samizdat   (1037 words)

  
  Samizdat's critics... Brown replies
Samizdat is a series of excerpts from an upcoming book on open source and operating systems that will be published later this year.
In Samizdat, I argue that the inherent instability of hybrid source development such as Linux is due in great part to its inability to provide a sound policy for originating source code without attribution or IP problems.
Samizdat concludes that the root of attribution, IP misappropriation, and acknowledgement problems in Linux is ---in fact--- the trust model.
www.adti.net /samizdat/brown.reply.june.04.html   (3083 words)

  
 Samizdat - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Samizdat (Russian, “self-publishing”), a phenomenon which came into being in the late 1950s in the Soviet Union and lasted until President...
The world of “illegal” (samizdat) literature in the post-Stalin period yielded the works of Mikhail Bulgakov.
In the 1950s Hrabal was writing prose that did not accord with Stalinist ideology; as a result, he decided not to attempt to publish it.
au.encarta.msn.com /Samizdat.html   (128 words)

  
 sourcefrog : AdTI's "Samizdat"
Samizdat was a response to the attempt by the Russian government to control access to all publications and publication outlets.
Samizdat referred to the practice of "self-publishing" by dissident thinkers in a variety of areas, including political thinkers, academics and scholars, scientists, and literary and artistic figures in the Soviet Union.
The comparison to samizdat publishers is inspiring and flattering, but eventually an exageration: few of us run the risk of the gulag to publish our code, and though the cause of free software is worthy it is not so grand as the liberation of a country from totalitarianism.
sourcefrog.net /weblog/issues/adti/samizdat.html   (613 words)

  
 Other Voices 1.2 (September 1998), Stephen Küpper, "Präprintium. A Berlin Exhibition of Moscow Samizdat Books"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Although the main body of the exhibition is limited to the Moscow samizdat of the late 50's to the early 90's, this is not to diminish the significance of the other metropolis, St. Petersburg, or the many efforts in the Russian province.
Samizdat reported on the violation of Human Rights, which was documented in the Khronika tekushchikh sobytiy (Chronicle of Ongoing Events), one of the most widespread samizdat publications.
It appears that the term samizdat was coined in the 1940's by the poet Nikolay Glazkov, who designed the covers of his books to resemble official publications, but signed the title pages of his self- made books samsebyaizdat (published by myself) in the place typically reserved for the publisher's name.
www.othervoices.org /1.2/skuepper/samizdat.html   (3436 words)

  
 Samizdat and Internet comparison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The last important characteristic of samizdat discussed earlier in the paper is the fact that the authorities attempted to control it, because “the power to control the dissemination of information is the power to influence the beliefs and actions of human beings” (Lippard).
Samizdat was, by definition, material of all types that was unacceptable to the authorities because of its subject matter.
Also important with respect to samizdat and control over it by the authorities was that even the authorities were unsure of what was and was not allowable and thus were inconsistent in asserting control.
www.slis.ualberta.ca /issues/sbalazs/compar.htm   (3255 words)

  
 Samizdat Literature Criticism and Essays
Samizdat literature in the Soviet Union existed most actively during the years following the fall of Premier Khrushchev in the mid-1960s, and lasted until the fall of the communist regime in the Soviet Union during the early 1990s.
Samizdat writing was obviously perceived as a threat by the authoritarian regimes under which it flourished, and proponents of the dominant regime made consistent efforts to track and shut down producers of samizdat literature.
While the works of samizdat gained immense popularity in the West—allowing other nations and cultures a glimpse into a hitherto closed society—they also provided a means for Soviet citizens to gain access to information that would be otherwise unavailable to them.
www.enotes.com /twentieth-century-criticism/samizdat-literature   (920 words)

  
 Samizdat history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It should also be noted that “the visual counterpart of samizdat embrace[d] among other things non-conformist painting and sculpture and pornographic pictures as well as photographs and films” (Feldbrugge 15).
Samizdat acted as a viable means of creation and protest throughout the 1960s, 1070s and 1980s.
However, for Soviet citizens “samizdat [had been] primarily a means of expressing oneself and of communicating with one another in a sphere outside the censor’s supervision” (Feldbrugge 4) and it strongly affected the cultural, social and political life of the Soviet Union throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s.
www.slis.ualberta.ca /issues/sbalazs/history.htm   (924 words)

  
 samizdat page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The term Samizdat translated from the Russian sam or "self" and izadatelstvo or "publishing," is a play on the official soviet Gosizdat, or "State Publishing House." Literature which would be considered samizdat are manuscripts which were privately and illegally produced and circulated in the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.
Samizdat began as a Moscow and Leningrad intellectual movement, but quickly became a way for Russian authors to have their works read which had previously been denied publication by the government or which had been kept hidden rather than face the risk of persecution.
Samizdat also provided a way to circulate books which had been published before and were now unavailable because they clashed with the present Soviet ideal, such as the poetry of Anna Akhmatova.
s98.middlebury.edu /RU152A/STUDENTS/Erofeev/samizdatpage.html   (466 words)

  
 Samizdat
Sometimes samizdat documents were mimeographed, but this was rare; mimeo machines were state-controlled.
The introduction of the fax machine made it possible for samizdat to travel anywhere a phone line reached, and by the sixties, the introduction of the photocopier made it possible for a typewritten document to be reproduced and distributed much farther and faster, but photocopiers were also state-controlled.
Samizdat was dangerous, but it was the only free press in the Soviet Union.
www.gerrold.com /samizdat/2003_09_01_archive.html   (2504 words)

  
 Inside "Samizdat" by Julius Telesin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
However, "real" samizdat, as a Russian phenomenon for which a new Russian word was needed, could come into existence in the U.S.S.R. only when, on the one hand, everything had been almost strangled to death by the tentacles of censorship and, on the other, there occurred a rare chance to breathe.
I know, for instance, that there are reports in samizdat (reprinted from the newspaper Sovetskaya Sibir for 1938) of the trial of a group of high local heads of the NKVD and procuracy who carried out repressive measures against 160 children.
They put their works into samizdat, perhaps with the understanding that better times do not come automatically and that the existence of a free literature which is actually being read will itself promote a change for the better.
www.cs.ucl.ac.uk /staff/mrogers/inside-samizdat.html   (5642 words)

  
 Samizdat - Summary [Savannah]
Samizdat will let everyone publish, view, comment, edit, and aggregate text and multimedia resources, vote on ratings and classifications, filter resources by flexible sets of criteria, cooperate and coordinate on all kinds of activities (see Design Goals document for details).
Samizdat builds its underlying data model on RDF (Resource Description Framework), and defines a schema of resource classes and properties for core concepts of a Samizdat site: member, message, thread, tag, proposition, vote, version, part, and so on (see Concepts document).
All Samizdat source code and documentation can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the license, or (at your option) any later version.
savannah.nongnu.org /projects/samizdat   (321 words)

  
 Chess Samizdat - Syndicated Chess Content
You agree that the content that you submit will be sent on a live javascript/RSS feed to webmasters, e-zine editors, print publishers and other media outlets, as well as the general public, free of charge.
The only remedy, in case of unresolved disagreement between the Author and Chess Samizdat is removal of the article in question from the feed.
The appearance of an external link on this domain is not an endorsement or evidence of some kind of partnership agreement, rather, is merely a hyperlink provided for informational purposes, as a service to our readers.
www.correspondencechess.com /samizdat   (951 words)

  
 Samizdat
In Russia during the Soviet era, "forbidden" works of literature and political criticism were produced and circulated through a system known as "samizdat." Those who received a manuscript would do so with the implied promise that they would type out five carbon copies before passing it on.
So they eagerly awaited receipt of each new Samizdat and secretly tuned into the Voice of America and the BBC.
Let them know that you are looking elsewhere for your information and, as in days of the Soviet "samizdat," you are passing on important information you learn elsewhere to your friends and colleagues.
www.crisispapers.org /features/samizdat.htm   (689 words)

  
 Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Creating a Samizdat Bloggers Network Using SMS Text Messaging
Samizdat (самиздат) is a Russian word that essentially translates to "self publishing." During the Cold War, Russian free speech advocates created a samizdat network to disseminate government -censored information secretly to the public.
Using techniques as basic as carbon paper, handwritten notes and crudely copied video tapes, the samizdat network allowed advocates of free speech and democracy to share their ideas under the radar of authorities.
The first step would be to create a brand new website that aggregates a group of education blogs that are being censored.
www.andycarvin.com /archives/2006/04/creating_a_samizdat.html   (1593 words)

  
 From Samizdat to Tamizdat
The title From Samizdat to Tamizdat reflects our desire to move away from traditional approaches to the phenomenon of samizdat as an isolated and largely Russian experience to a wider consideration of cross-border publishing (tamizdat) throughout the twentieth century.
We are seeking projects that offer new case studies and examine new source material on samizdat and tamizdat, and that go beyond simply celebrating the accomplishments of well-known dissident groups active in the 1970s and 1980s.
More recently, there is the case of B92 in Belgrade, which began as a student radio station but then during the 1990s pioneered the use of the internet to circumvent media repression.
www.stanford.edu /~jlabov/samizdat_tamizdat.htm   (943 words)

  
 Samizdat Blog: Quietude Redux, or: Varieties of Self in Contemporary Poetry
Samizdat Blog: Quietude Redux, or: Varieties of Self in Contemporary Poetry
Samizdat, the poetry magazine that ran from 1998-2004, is dead.
Off to grade exams for an hour or two before putting together one of these delicious bastards.
samizdatblog.blogspot.com /2005/12/quietude-redux-or-varieties-of-self-in.html   (2044 words)

  
 LWN: Samizdat 0.5.2, the Wiki release
Samizdat 0.5.2, the Wiki release -------------------------------- This version adds Wiki functionality to Samizdat, allowing to edit messages and track history of changes.
About Samizdat: Samizdat is a generic RDF-based engine for building collaboration and open publishing web sites.
Samizdat will let users cooperate and coordinate on all kinds of activities, including media activism, resource sharing, education and research, advocacy, etc., by allowing everyone to publish, view, comment, edit, and aggregate text and multimedia resources, vote on ratings and classifications, filter resources by flexible sets of criteria (see design-goals.txt).
lwn.net /Articles/92608   (169 words)

  
 Internet Camelot: Internet trends, ebooks, business on the Web
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Published by BandR Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132-002.
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www.samizdat.com   (5225 words)

  
 Is Brown really the father of Samizdat?
It's hard to imagine that Ken Brown could have launched Samizdat without directly using earlier book-writing work, according to a report that has been unnoticed even before it was written.
If Samizdat is a derivative work of The Elements of Style, that makes Samizdat vulnerable to charges of intellectual property infringement by Pearson Higher Education, which published the The Elements of Style book.
The Samizdat issue fuels my concern that Microsoft makes it easier for journalistic hacks to benefit from shoddy hatchet jobs, I said: "How are you going to have an intellectual attack on Linux if you keep throwing money at obvious puppets reciting provably false statements?"
www.cs.duke.edu /~justin/copyright/brown.father.html   (1297 words)

  
 Samizdat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some of the samizdat content became more politicized and played an important role in the dissident movement in the Soviet Union.
Julius Telesin - Inside "Samizdat" published in Encounter 40(2), pages 25-33, February 1973
This page was last modified 00:08, 21 October 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samizdat   (1425 words)

  
 SAMIZDAT - Reader's corner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
SAMIZDAT welcomes comments and is open to discussion throughout the range of its subjects.
It considers, that under the present circumstances, topics of immediate interest whose development would contribute to policy-making are :
Economic policy options, both at a macroeconomic level and at the level of market implications (the Stock Exchange and the drachma market being of direct interest).
www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/Samizdat/encorner.htm   (107 words)

  
 Diacritica | Samizdat Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The goal of the Samizdat Library is to make available and preserve in the electronic domain the seminal texts of protest circulated in Occupied Europe during the Nazi and Soviet Eras.
Because, outside of Vaclav Havel, Adam Michnik and a few others, hundreds of other writers, in all languages, contributed to the samizdat movement.
Many of them gave their lives (or the best years of them) to giving voice to the cause of freedom and independent thought.
www.diacritica.com /samizdat/index.html   (182 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
-Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) samizdat (SAH-miz-daht) noun An underground publishing system to print and circulate banned literature clandestinely.
[From Russian samizdat, from samo- (self) + izdatelstvo (publishing house), from izdat (to publish).
It is both funny and a valuable record of samizdat literature and Philippine popular culture." Alastair Dingwall, Estrada's Fall From Grace, Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong), Jan 17, 2002.
www.wordsmith.org /awad/archives/0302   (3181 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Good-Bye Samizdat: Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Underground Writing: Books: Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz,Paul ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Amazon.ca: Good-Bye Samizdat: Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Underground Writing: Books: Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz,Paul Wilson,Erazim Kohan
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
Good-Bye Samizdat: Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Underground Writing (Paperback)
www.amazon.ca /Good-Bye-Samizdat-Czechoslovak-Underground-Writing/dp/0810110350   (471 words)

  
 LWN: Samizdat 0.5.0 released
Samizdat 0.5.0, the first beta release -------------------------------------- Greetings!
Version 0.5.0 of the Samizdat open publishing engine is released.
Known bugs: - focus table is not rendered correctly in Internet Explorer due to a difficult to work around bug in CSS implementation by Microsoft; - Pingback doesn't work with Ruby 1.6.
lwn.net /Articles/60739   (217 words)

  
 eBay Store - B and R Samizdat Express: novels organized by author, theme subject, genre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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