Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 18, 2012
Part of my objective was to show the unintended consequences of Internet censorship bills like SOPA and PIPA (SOPA's Senate buddy bill), responding to alerts from organizations I trust like the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands).
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.
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Tech Soup
APRIL 7, 2009
Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. For me, Encarta was never a replacement for the library; it was an intellectual onramp to the library. Photo: Bright Tal. Photo: Bright Tal.
Tech Soup
MAY 22, 2009
To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me. Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. Tags: E-Learning E-Learning Reference Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Cloud computing basically means services you use over the Internet like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web Apps , Live Documents , or One Hub rather than installing software and housing the document or information in-house. The TechSoup admin fee for eligible nonprofits and libraries is $40.00. plus $2 per user license.
Tech Soup
MAY 7, 2014
According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services.” ” These can be active [the stuff you want to share about yourself with the wider world on the internet] or passive [the data collected about you without you doing much].
NTEN
AUGUST 25, 2009
Sure, the average price of a computer has been falling for years, but that doesn't take into account the recurring cost of Internet access. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? The "voices" of the Internet that you get are biased by the people who are in the places that you hang out.
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