check out the youtube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRtsG6CgQyM

My paper has been archived at E-LIS and it is titled: The Next Generation Online Public Access Catalog in Academic Libraries
http://eprints.rclis.org/17103/

Bob Metcalfe started 3Com and invented EtherNet.  This is what he said about open source software in 1999:

The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash [... that]
reminds me of communism. [...] Linux [is like] organic software grown
in utopia by spiritualists [...] When they bring organic fruit to
market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores – the Open Sores
Movement. When [Windows 2000] gets here, goodbye Linux.

In what ways does OSS spur innovation?

This week I decided to do a demo of one of our examples of library open source software products. Using Elluminate, I recorded a demonstration of VuFind, an open source online public access catalog.

Top 10 Most Usable Content Management Systems
By Ellyssa on Web 2.0
Glen Stansberry at Nettuts+ writes about the Top 10 Most Usable Content Management Systems. The author lists each CMS along with a discussion of its best and most “usable” features. Based on my own experience, I heartily agree with the first two list entries as I have found both WordPress and Drupal to be particularly user-friendly as well as powerful content management systems.
http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/top-10-most-usable-content...

I've used Open Office on and off over the years, and although we're supposed to download it, play with it, and compare it to it's proprietary model (Microsoft Office), I'm going to vary from the assigned path and check out the OSS competitor to Outlook: Thunderbird. I've not used Outlook or Outlook Express on my home computer since the hackers started digging at MS ... my response was to just keep everything online with Hotmail. I use Outlook extensively at work, so will have much to compare. So, the new experiment begins! More later!

Blog your impressions comparing this OSS program to commercial products you've used. Would this experience make you more or less likely to try other OSS applications?

I chose to download NeoOffice, since OpenOffice is only available for Intel-based Macs and I am still in the stone age (well, the non-Intel Mac age anyway) with my iBook PowerPC.