One of the nifty things about ebooks is their ability to transcend plain text. Illustrations and graphic design have always been recognized as an important…
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Malicious attacks on websites continue to make the news. Whether it’s Anonymous exposing a whole country’s control and data systems or hackers stealing huge amounts of…
Almost everybody would agree that 2011 was the year of the ebook, when they captured about 20% of all fiction sales. Almost everybody in the…
You may recall from an earlier 4cast that the law suit against the Google Books project had its ups and downs last year. It looks like…
If your library maintains a website (and we really, really hope you actually work on maintaining your website!), it’s often handy to know how that…
It’s been about six months since we’ve done a 4cast post specifically about mobile computing, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about it. OPLIN has…
We all know that the Internet contains an abundance of misinformation. Librarians often spend a lot of time explaining to their patrons that you can’t…
Late in the afternoon on Black Friday, the oplin.org website was hit by an apparent Denial of Service (DoS) attack. DoS and DDoS (Distributed Denial of…
Adobe Flash animation was the “hot” website design tool for a while, cropping up on all sorts of websites (including library websites), despite concerns about…