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 [...]

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Today, May 1st, is RSS Awareness Day, a time when people are encouraged to get to know little ol’ RSS, or Real Simple Syndication, which by itself means very little but for people who use news readers (Google Reader, Bloglines, etc.) it’s the very life blood of content delivery.  Have you hugged your RSS today?

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Twitter, the microblogging application that allows you to post something about your everyday experience in 140 characters or less, is gaining ground as the newest way to connect and interact with other net denizens.
Your tweets (posts) can be as mundane or as elaborate as you want to make them. You can also include links, which [...]

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Well, SWILA is over, but I wanted to share the pictures I took of some of the sessions in and around the Kathryn Albertson International Center, on a chilly but beautiful spring day at the College of Idaho, in Caldwell, ID.
If you’re interested in seeing a slide show of my Flickr set, head on over [...]

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You may have seen this video before, but it bears watching again. Created Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, this short (under 5 mins) video deftly captures the increasing mutation of information, and its consumption.

How do digital natives analyze what is presented to them on the web? What is taken [...]

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So I just finished cleaning up (mostly) and putting things away (kind of) with my SWILA (Southwest Idaho Library Association, region 3) peeps after, I think, a great conference at the Kathryn Albertson International Center in the College of Idaho in downtown Caldwell, ID. Being part of the planning committee was fantastic, not only because [...]

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Once again, Commoncraft has created a no-frills, easy to understand video on a highly popular social tool, a micro blogging utility known as Twitter.I’ve been using Twitter to experiment with this interesting aspect of the web, and it is incredibly easy to do, since you’re limited to 140 characters to let others know what you [...]

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