What’s so wrong with SOPA?
Yesterday, a friend started a long discussion on Facebook (well, long for that venue) by asking where exactly the censorship happens within the text of the Stop Online Piracy Act …
It’s Getting Chilly Out
First time I’ve stumbled on this one, I confess. I’m not sure whether to see some positive — Google bending but not breaking — or to scream that the rotten …
Dissent Deferred
Management at the Salt Lake City PL has apparently decided against learning what staff think of the place and mandated a happy-talk only rule for companywide email and at least …
Weight of Information I
During party chat, I was accused of being a notorious elitist. Librarian-types place enormous value on free access to information, certainly without censorship imposed directly by government or other controlling …
DRM smackdown
Well, here’s a good idea! My speculation that publishers might be getting a handle on their rights management problems appears to have been nothing but wild optimism, or at least …
The Digital Metaphor
So the e-reader people are finally starting to address some of their rights management issues it would seem. Nobody wants to buy one of those ebooks if they can’t treat …