by Risa Dickens
What I didn’t quite say in my first open source related public talk…
Well, I walked into the conference room at CRIM for my little talk about OpenJournaL last night and immediately began deciding to ditch my written presentation and just have a talk with these folks. The guys that straggled in were all [...]
by Megan Lydon.
for Ms. Bertolotti
English Language Arts- secondary 3
Villa Maria High School
May 17, 2005
Services need to be adapted toward the needs of the people. All people with mental illnesses are worthy of quality services to improve their quality of life and health. More of these services can be provided and improved with more financial assistance. [...]
Lawrence Smith
Some of you might remember the episode of Seinfeld in which George and Jerry are pitching an idea for a T.V. pilot. When asked by T.V. executives what the show is about, George replies, proudly, “It’s about nothing!” Not exactly the answer they were looking for, but it might be an appropriate [...]
A Piece of my MA thesis. By Risa Dickens.
Open source protects the rights of the user of information, (versus proprietary software, which protects the rights of the inventor or, more accurately, the rights of the company which finances the development and distribution of the software,) in a digital environment where that information is effectively [...]
By Alexandra Yarrow
In his paper on information society studies, Alistair Duff quotes from Eugene Garfield’s 1979 definition of the term information society. An information society, wrote Garfield, is one in which “the rapid and convenient delivery of information is the ordinary state of affairs” (Duff 139). We commonly speak today of information societies, recognising that [...]
By Alexandra Yarrow.
In Chapter 7 of her book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World, Christine Borgman writes that libraries often “risk being victims of their own success” (194). When libraries function optimally, they offer services that can easily go unnoticed by the general public. Processes such [...]
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