Boing Boing: US gov’t to apply DRM to public, non-copyrighted info that you already paid for …the Government Printing Office, is proposing a new set of policies that will drastically reduce free access to government information. Three librarians from the University of California San Diego have written an article about the details. On a different [...]

Always Fresh: Fast Content For Library Web Sites with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Keeping a library web site up to date with fresh content is a challenge for any webmaster. Learn how to publish, merge and format RSS feeds into instant web content. Discover how libraries have made specialized pages featuring article titles of new [...]

Building Communities in the Palm of your Hand discusses the ways libraries can become more pda/smartphone friendly, and therefore more user friendly. This is particularly an important subject for health sciences libraries. PDA’s are very popular with doctors and when they need information they want it immediately with as little trouble as possible. My library [...]

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Boing Boing: Canada’s copyfight explained, demystified In Canada, the entertainment industry has decided that Canada’s copyright (which has been updated dozens of times since it was first introduced” is outdated and must be updated to look like American copyright law, but even worse. For example, Canada’s rightsholders want to replace “notice-and-takedown” (an ISP has to [...]

Digital Web Magazine – Databases Behind Shops covers the basics of SQL with examples.

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Boing Boing: Musicians don’t earn living from copyright, copyright hurts creators The excellent free peer-reviewed net-journal First Monday has published an exhaustive survey of the earnings made by British and German musicians. Their conclusion? Copyright doesn’t give creators a living, and in many cases (such as clearing samples) it costs them more than they can [...]