Internet Explorer Is Too Dangerous to Keep Using In the few days that the sites provided the Trojan horses, hundreds of thousands or millions of users could have had their credit-card, stock-brokerage and bank-account numbers and passwords stolen. Let me repeat myself: Millions of you may have every bit of your browser-driven online financial security [...]

Librarian Blogs and Sites Internet Directory lists a ton of personal websites for librarians. It’s a great place to start for web-surfing.

Cory Doctorow’s talk on DRM This talk was originally given to Microsoft’s Research Group and other interested parties from within the company at their Redmond offices on June 17, 2004. Really well done.

Whether marketing a corporate brand or a branded product or service, success increasingly demands proactive brand management. This site is dedicated to examining all issues relating to branding to assist you in this task. AllAboutBranding.com And back to our regularly scheduled programming… Libraries offer many useful and underutalized services. The key to improving our visibility [...]

Some good points. We can’t get so wrapped up in what we’re doing wrong that we forget what we’re doing right. Often I hear the mantra that libraries should be more like businesses. While it is true that we can learn things from the public sector, they have much to learn from us. I wish [...]

That means 71.2% of what they sent us is stuff currently sold in remainder bins. Dunno if the terms of the agreement said they couldn’t send cutouts or not, but if I know the record industry, they are following the letter but not the spirit of the settlement…. The Shifted Librarian Are they really that [...]

Georgia is creating an open-source ILS for it’s resource sharing collective, PINES. this could easily be the biggest thing to happen with Open Source in the library community since linux was first used in a library setting. There have been many OSS success stories in libraries, but the ILS has never really been tackled for [...]

basic open access web sites is a list of websites on the main issues of the Open Access movement.

You’ve no doubt heard of them on your email lists, you may even have seen them in your favorite print publication. But what is a blog and why are they such a big deal?

[The educated blogger] explores the role of weblogs or “blogs” in classroom settings. Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self%u2013expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. This paper explores the importance of [...]