Many people think the recent protests and changes of government in the Middle East have been enabled by widespread use of Facebook and Twitter, and…
The OPLIN 4cast Posts
This posting collects several recent news items that all deal with some aspect of archiving digital material, or digitizing archival material. The topics range from…
OPLIN 4Cast #216: European strategy
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It’s quite likely that many readers of this blog know that OCLC recently released a sequel to the respected Perceptions of Libraries report first issued…
OPLIN 4Cast #215: E-book ownership
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Last week there were several interesting postings on the Internet about the notion of “owning” e-books. We’ve mentioned e-book DRM issues in this blog before,…
OPLIN 4Cast #214: PDF malware
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These days, when you click to download a PDF file from the web or your e-mail, your computer may well ask, “Are you really sure??”…
OPLIN 4Cast #213: Mobile phone payments
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Perhaps you’ve seen some video of people waving their smartphone at a device to automatically pay a fee. Perhaps you’ve wondered if this is something…
There’s a battle shaping up over the business of selling digital newspapers and magazines to users of tablet devices, like the iPad. While Apple has…
Just at the end of the year, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report indicating that “65% of Internet users have paid for…
OPLIN 4Cast #210: Open access news
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For our last posting of 2010—and following on the heels of last week’s posting about content farms—we’re going to take a look at a variety…
OPLIN 4Cast #209: Content farms
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Ever visited a content farm? Chances are you have, at least online. “Content farm” is the slightly derisive term for a company that hires freelance…