Restoring fair use for “protected” PDFs
librarian.net: radref tooklkit, fair use with cut-and-paste restricted pdfs. Timely.
Erm, did I just violate the DMCA?
Folksonomies
The folksonomy meme is well underway, with a well timed announcement from Technorati feeding the frenzy. I think that one thing that needs to be addressed, though, is the sense of triumphalism—folksonomy over all organized taxonomies—that I hear in some of the posts.
Clay Shirky starts to address this issue in his excellent post about the [...]
Worshipping librarians
I found myself in Via Valverde on Friday with the head librarian of Goucher College, explaining the concept of folksonomies over a glass of wine. Lisa became friends with Nancy when they were on a curriculum committee together when Lisa was an undergrad, and Nancy pinged her when she was coming up here for the [...]
