Here’s a brief article talking about Wordpress (the platform we’re using for blogging) and its founder, Matt Mullenweg (who is obscenely young!) While reading it, I was struck by the parallels between the open source software movement and the general philosophy of public libraries to offer materials without charge or discrimination. It’s also interesting that open source software is developed in a collaborative, participatory way, and therefore, is also an example of the Read-Write Web.

As technology becomes more and more intertwined with library services, I hope to see more open source library applications and less proprietary, exclusionary ones. A couple examples that are gaining momentum are library catalog solutions. Check out Scriblio and Evergreen.