New Ideas? Tough to implement them?

Basically the hardest thing to do is implement any new idea or be innovative when you work for a place where there is very little money, and little room for error. Working for the State of Idaho it’s hard to convince anyone to adopt a new idea, even if it costs nothing and has the [...]

Libraries and DRM: what’s the story?

Found this post on BoingBoing re DRM (digital rights management), and the movement by this group to pressure libraries to stop using DRM in their collections.
But let’s back up a bit. What is, actually, this digital rights management? This is Wikipedia’s definition:
Digital rights management (DRM) is an umbrella term that refers to access [...]