I’ve previously mentioned my preference for content management systems over traditional websites. We use Drupal at MPOW and it allows almost everyone in our office to easily contribute to our site.
Drupal is also becoming a popular choice for libraries and now the New York Public Library is joining the party. Josh Greenberg recently posted on [...]
Category Archives: Digital Content
NYPL is Moving to Drupal
June 17, 2008 – 10:32 pm
Can Libraries Drop DRM?
May 18, 2008 – 11:47 pm
The Free Software Foundation has an ongoing campaign against Digital Rights Management. They promote their cause over at defectivebydesign.org and I think it’s generally a good site to learn about DRM and how it is restricting digital freedoms. Recently, the group held a protest at the Boston Public Library where they demanded that [...]
More Digital Info Than We Can Store
March 13, 2008 – 11:09 am
Ars Technica reports that there is now more digital information in existence than there is storage capacity on earth.
They say that this number reached 281 billion gigabytes (281 exabytes) in 2007, which adds up to about 45GB of digital information for each person on earth. For the first time ever, the total volume of digital [...]
Content Management Systems are Hot
March 9, 2008 – 9:00 pm
Content Management Systems are a hot tool in libraries right now. At our place alone, we’re using Drupal for our main website, WordPress as a basic CMS for multiple sites, and we are helping one of our member libraries build a new site with Joomla. Libraries are becoming interested in making their websites [...]
Random House Audio Drops DRM
February 25, 2008 – 11:42 pm
BoingBoing is reporting that Random House Audio is now allowing its audiobooks to be sold without DRM. Why are they doing this, you ask?
Random House notes that they’ve been running a DRM-free audiobook program with eMusic for months, and that none of the pirate editions of their audiobooks online came from those DRM-free editions; [...]
