Librarians, Open Access Advocates ‘Vehemently Oppose’ Research Works Act is a great post on the response to HR 3699. There has been a huge response to this act in Twitter and the blog-o-sphere.

Richard Poynder has written about whether presses that are members of AAP can stay neutral in the debate over the bill.

On Jan 3, ExtremeTech reported that major websites like Google and Amazon were considering going black in protest of SOPA and the Atlantic posted about Reddit’s decision to go black on Jan 18.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the closure of a government biodiversity program (and invaluable database) due to budget cuts.

As one of many Google Reader users who are not fans of the new version, Alicia764 blogs about how changes designed to force people to use Google+ have broken a tool she relied on as a solo-librarian.