Light Weight Digital Rights Management
This interesting system does not prevent people from copying, but rather, allows people to copy but requires that they imprint an authenticated digital signature 'watermarked' into the copy. More...

LMS Roulette Anyone?
An interesting and wide-ranging discussion that asks the simple question: which e-learning companies are still relevant in the marketplace? Though some of the usual big names are suggested - "Docent, Saba, Click2learn, Thinq, Plateau, Pathlore. and KnowledgePlanet" - the consensus answer seems to be "none of the above." As one writer comments, "I would be shorting them all if any were trading above $5." So what happened? Part of it was the tech crash, of course. More...

Information Management Resource Centre (IMRC)

In Canada, the Treasury Board corordinates metadata and information management activities for the federal government (no, I don't know why; it just does - I'm sure there's a reason). More...

The CMSWatch "Top 40"
The 40 "most significant" (though not necessarily the best) content management systems, as listed by CMS Watch. Each item features a link to the system's home page. More...

Microsoft Expands Rights Management Tool
Microsoft announced today that it will be releasing a test version of its rights management server (RMS) next week. They get the concept partially right: the protection is document specific. But in order to view the document, a user would have to be able to access the Windows Server running RMS on first opening a document to authenticate the rights and decrypt the document. Otherwise, the document cannot be opened. More...