Posted inBook online education
Book trumps blogging
My book is due in just over a month. This is a fact that is causing me a fair amount of anxiety. I know I'll get it done in time,…
Posted inALA librarianship online education social software
On ALA 2.0 Bootcamp and free access to online learning
It's been thrilling to see the growth of online educational opportunities for librarians. From OPAL, to SirsiDynix, to HigherEd BlogCon, to WebJunction, to podcasts, screencasts and countless blogs... there's a…
Posted inlibraries open access our digital future Vermont Wikis
On skill sharing
Last November, I went to a meeting of Vermont colleges where we discussed doing more consortial activities. We broke up into groups to discuss different ideas and then reported to…
Elf and Privacy Issues
Mary Minnow has written several posts on Library Elf and potential privacy issues. Since my library uses Voyager, I haven't tried Library Elf out yet, but it's supposed to create…
Posted inintellectual freedom
Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries?
I found this link via Nexgenlib-L and I found it so amusing/horrifying that I had to share it with everyone. Human Events Online, which is a conservative journal, came out…
Posted inopen source
Open source alternatives!
When I was talking to my dad and he told me that he had a copy of Adobe Acrobat's PDF Writer, I realized that not everyone is up on the…
Posted inALA intellectual freedom
What is happening to our country?
I was more than a little frightened when I saw the survey, sponsored by the James L. Knight Foundation, which found that 35% of the high school students surveyed thought…
Posted inopen source
Firefox is on fire!!!
I was very excited to hear, via Research Buzz, that Firefox has been downloaded more than 25 million times! That's fabulous! Hopefully we'll see it replacing Internet Explorer more and…
Posted inblogging open source
The community in computing
The Linux Librarian has a great post on why open source and blogging are so great: This is why open source works. From my comments, from yesterday, from James Robertson:…
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OSS Patent Search
For those interested in developing open source software based on the patents offered for free by IBM and others, PatentCafe has come out with OSS Patent Search Engine, a natural…
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Open source in Brazil
NPR this morning had a great story about how Brazil is switching 300,000 government computers from Windows to Linux. Not only are they switching to Linux, but they are dropping…
Posted inopen source our digital future
Changing corporate image with open source
In light of IBM's offer to allow use of 500 of their software patents for open source applications, Sun is now freely offering 1600 of its own patents for open…
The Max Power way
According to Techdirt, a California state senator has introduced a bill that threatens developers of file sharing applications with jail time. John Borland at CNET, writes, “if passed and signed…
Posted inopen access open source our digital future
A new corporate approach to intellectual property
IBM is making 500 of its patents available for free to people doing open source projects. Rock on! From the New York Times: I.B.M. executives say the company's new approach…
Exhuming McCarthy
Bill Gates recently sat down with CNET for an interview (which begins with the frightening teaser "Bill Gates is coming to your living room, whether you like it or not").…
Open Access
I guess this is the day to post intros! Peter Suber, at Open Access News, has published a very concise introduction to the concept of open access. A Very Brief…
Posted inintellectual freedom libraries
A Net Nanny with an MLS
Wow! In an age of shrinking budgets and shrinking staffs, the Phoenix Public Libraries has secured $175,000 to hire one full time professional librarian and three paraprofessionals to police their…
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Eyes on the prize (money?)
Here is a disappointing story about the licensing and intellectual property rights . The award-winning documentary, Eyes on the Prize, about the civil rights movement, can no longer be aired…
Posted inintellectual freedom
Satellite radio safe… for now
According to the Curmudgeony Librarian, the FCC has declined a request by a Saul Levine -- a California radio station owner -- to apply the same standards to satellite radio…
Where Google leads…
Here is an interesting article I found via Resource Shelf. The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and Google Scholar by Nick Luft looks at one positive effect Google (and specifically Google…
