From Ars Technica this morning.

Recently, the Los Angeles Times's Jon Healey kicked off a new round in the long-running debate about the moral status of file-sharing. Critics of the practice analogize copyrights to property rights, suggesting that file-sharing is a form of theft. Property rights have emotional resonance across the political ( Read more... )

A good lesson for all libraries, and anyone else in public service.

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From CNN NEW YORK (AP) -- It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams ( Read more... )

The test of any cognitive framework for classification is how it deals with its exceptions.

From the NYTSeattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley ( Read more... )

There was a post on Typefoundry this morning about the history of the "ß" character, or the esszett, otherwise known as the German double s. While this in itself is interesting to a student of textual studies and typography like me, what I found more interesting was the throwaway comment in the post that...
"[I]t has a place among the glyphs of the ( Read more... )

I recently had a conversation with seattlejo about federated search and it reminded me of this YouTube video I found a few weeks back. Interesting that YouTube can be thought of as a pretty mainstream media source. It was nice to see a building awareness of fed search coming about. It's certainly not a perfect solution to issues I was discussing the other ( Read more... )

"Everything looks pretty from on top of a cliff."

--My coworker Lorraine, referring to the "10,000 foot view" of a project that a library administrator gets to see.

An interesting blog post appeared on ReadWriteWeb this morning.

The Danger of Free
Written by Alex Iskold / January 16, 2008 5:19 AM

Everyone loves to get stuff for free. We line up to get a free drink, we sign up for free checking accounts, and we're happy to get a free gift with the purchase of our next car. We love free stuff, even though we ( Read more... )

So half the company is off in Philadelphia at ALA. It's very pleasant and quite around now. Especially considering the entire marketing department is gone ;-) I enjoyed the conference last year, and I'm very much looking forward to going to them in the future, but right now, I'm glad to be here so I can have some quite and get some work done. Class ( Read more... )