Internet Censorship in Libraries has had some information added.

I thought about doing a piece on the Supreme Courts decision but it had already been done better.

Supreme Court Decision Analysis
Supreme Court Forces Libraries To Censor
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Round-up of Links About SCOTUS Decision to Censor Library Internet Access
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In Real Life Implementation of Weblogs in the Classroom, a Georgia teacher talks about how her elementary school students and high school students in New Jersey learned writing skills by using blogs as a way of writing to and for each other. It makes you think about other possible uses.

RSS stands for either “Rich Site Summary”, “RDF Site Summary” or “Really Simple Syndication,” depending on who you ask. There are long, technical explanations for RSS but it’s more easily explained by what it can do than what it is. Essentially, you can download an aggregator and use it to keep track of the updates [...]

Web Standards in Action describes one developers experience in converting a site to standards-compliant code and the almost immediate benefits. Why are web standards important? Think MARC. Reuable, exchangable, understandable and easily manipulated.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
“This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.”
An authoritative resource going back to 1990, complete with blog, search engine and links.

Live Digital Reference Case Studies: A Bibliographyis a good place to start research.

University Library Navigation Enabled by Ekahau
“Wireless PDA based system called SmartLibrary helps users to find books and other material from the library collections. The help is provided in form of map-based guidance to the target bookshelf on a PDA. Ekahau Positioning Engine(tm) software is used by SmartLibrary system to pinpoint the accurate mobile client location.”
This [...]

Microsoft plays browser games discusses the possible motives and ramifications of MS’s decision to stop updating Internet Explorer as a separate piece of software for both Windows and Macs. Unless users switch to otherbrowsers web development will be slowed or even stopped until the release of the new Windows OS, supposedly in 2007.

The Forum Moderator’s Guide To Life gives some good points on managing online communities. As more people move online it becomes a good idea to start building library communities as well. After all, we can supply many of the things they’re looking for a price they can afford (free).

Remote Online Usability Testing: Why, How, and When to Use It is a write-up of notes from a pair of web-developers who just went through the proccess. It’s good alternative when most of your website users are at a distance.

Content and Knowledge Management Systems. Huh? has been updated with new information.

Minnis bows to lobbyists of Microsoft
Essentially, despite demonstrable benefits and cost-savings, the Oregon Speaker of the House “killed” a bill to convert the state government from Microsoft to open-source software “after powerful out-of-state corporate interests showed up at the Oregon Capitol, seeking to make the bill go away. “

Content and Knowledge Management Systems. Huh? has been updated to add new information.