Oh irony, how delicious you are:

+ Sunday, March 13 marked the beginning of the first Sunshine Week, an undertaking of the American Society of Newspaper Editors dedicated to "[o]pening a dialogue about the public's right of access to government information."

+ BoingBoing reports that the Government Printing Office will begin employing DRM on certain government records. See a paper by three librarians from UC San Diego's Social Sciences and Humanities Library for more info. The GPO describes their plan as a "new model for no-fee public access," which is (somewhat cynically) doublespeak for "a way to make sure the public doesn't get too much information for free."

Consider the dialogue opened...