In as direct and unflinching an account as you are likely to see from a library, Sweden’s LIBRIS nationella bibliotekssystem explains 3 reasons why OCLC WorldCat terms don’t really work for them: http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2012/04/19/clarification-regarding-worldcat-membership-2/ Tip o’ the hat to the cluegiver … Continue reading
I know patching massive and longstanding security holes doesn’t contribute to “developer fun”, but neither does living in a world where GitHub (and by extension every project that uses it) are vulnerable to direct exploitation: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/hacker-commandeers-github-to-prove-vuln-in-ruby.ars One Russian coder (Egor … Continue reading
While complaints about the commercialization of scholarly research publication have been common to academics and librarians (for generations), Elsevier’s recent support for U.S. SOPA, PIPA and Research Works Act legislation has crystallized some of the opposition that has otherwise been … Continue reading
