A Wandering Eyre

Last week something happened that did not make big news, but it should have. Timothy Vernor, an eBay vendor, won a court case in the state of Washington against Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD. Verner was selling used versions, not copies, of AutoCAD in his eBay store. Autodesk contended that because software is licensed by [...]

I have complained about paper newsletters before. I know that there is a demographic that like them and would get the information no other way, however, I still contend that the ROI is too low and the cost way, way too high. I have never received a newsletter that could not easily and more conveniently, [...]

On the heels of Meredith and Jason, I have to throw my hat in the ring. Jason describes a conversation we had at Internet Librarian in which we hatched the most brilliant of all schemes ever. Well, we think so anyway. Jason describes very well the meat of our plan: ALA should offer a virtual [...]