One year ago this week I began working outside of MPOW’s office. Space was getting cramped and I volunteered to give up my office and telecommute. I still go into the office a couple time a week, but I just find a table, put down my laptop and work from that spot. The other days [...]
Author Archives: Glen
reCAPTCHA Revisited
August 17, 2008 – 11:01 pm
About a year ago, I wrote about reCAPTCHA and thought it was an interesting alternative to the eye-crossing patterns and letters that many web sites use. I said “I’m not yet convinced it will work, but it’s an interesting idea.” Since then, I’ve come across reCAPTCHA on a number of sites and I really like [...]
Libraries Have Missed the Mobile Web
August 12, 2008 – 3:49 pm
There, I said it. For years I’ve been preaching to libraries that they need to make their websites mobile friendly. I recently came to the conclusion, however, that it’s now too late. At MPOW, we purchased an iPod Touch to play around with. I’m not an Apple fan in the least, but the browser on [...]
DRM Dying Slowly and Painfully
July 27, 2008 – 10:53 pm
Digital Rights Management continues to slowly die. Sony just announced that it’s ebook reader will soon support the popular .epub book format. Up until now, users had to purchase titles from the Sony store. Now other booksellers will be able to provide titles for Sony’s device. Perhaps library content will be an option. O’Reilly has [...]
Join the Social
July 21, 2008 – 12:02 am
Recently I had a chance to speak at one of our member institutions about collaborating with social tools. Slides from the talk are now available. Many of the staff spent their lunch break learning how social tools can be used to collaborate with others. I could tell that many in the room were seeing these [...]
