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Free Range Librarian: iPods are imPure, Too

Is it good, is it bad?
It’s a tool that will let libraries circulate digital materials more easily. Yes the drm sucks but it’s also why the copyright owners will allow the circulation.

Creating Passionate Users: Upgrade your users, not just your product

10 ways to use blogs for managing projects
Blogs aren’t just for marketing – there are many areas of the business where they can help improve information flow, reduce clutter and avoid the dreaded “but I didn’t know about that” situation. Here’s ten ways that we’ve used blogs for managing projects – both internally and with [...]

B.L. Ochman’s weblog – Internet strategy, marketing, public relations, politics with news and commentary: How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments
While basic writing talent is innate, many of the skills for writing compelling blog posts and and salient comments can be learned. The basic guidelines: keep your copy lively, factual, tight, clear [...]

The Kitchen: How to Cook a Weblog � What is CSS? is a plain-language explanation of what Cascading Style Sheets are and why Geeks are so excited about them.

I’m clearing out my drafts folder since it doesn’t require a lot of reading.
Principles of Graphic Design is a flash slide show that steps you through some of the basics. It presents some good bits of information and explains some unfamiliar terms.

Just a quick note. MP3tunes.com rocks! I haven’t played with it much but I managed to find 2 albums that I want to buy in 15 minutes.
High quality music with no DRM for less than iTunes. This is going to be a not-so-guilty pleasure.

I’m having eye surgery tommorow for a detached retina. I have no idea when I’ll be on the Internet again so I’m closing comments again until I get back.

I received not one but two interesting emails recently in response to posts I’ve written. I’m taking it as a sign that I’m growing as a blogger to the point where readers may actually want to talk back to me. So I’m opening comments here. We’ll see how it goes.

LA city councilman says open source = more cops, or more teachers, or actual librarians. All cities and organizations need more money and proprietary solutions can be an unnecessary drain.
Not to say you should use all open-source all of the time. But often it is just as good or better than the far more [...]

Boing Boing: Eyes on the Prize rightsholders: teacher may not screen our movie to kids
This is a public screening in an educational, non-commercial, one-time use setting.
This is what we’ve been afraid of since the copyright mess started. It’s never been about preserving the rights of the artists. It’s the profit margins of corporations versus the [...]

Digital Web Magazine – Accessibility From The Ground Up covers the broad basics from the web designers’s prospective.