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Poorly Drawn Theatre

For those of you who don’t know about my other life as a brilliant and ambitious playtester for a certain gaming company, you probably DO know about my penchant for gaming in general. Through the course of my tenure with Raw Deal, I’ve met a BUNCH of very cool, funny people. None of them is funnier than Ian, the creator of Poorly Drawn Theatre, the site which I will now selflessly pitch like mad to all 5 of you that read this blog. It’s a very specific type of humor, but it’s funny as hell if you like it. If you like it, tell him so..he’d love to get a lot of random email from strangers about Poorly Drawn. 🙂

For more examples of really odd humor, check out Thuggin’ and Buggin’ No. 1 and Thuggin’ and Buggin’ No. 2, a dual property of Ian and myself. Warning: full of meaningless wrestling and game-specific jargon. Read it for the insults, though, and it’ll be ok.

By griffey

Jason Griffey was most recently the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he worked to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise was useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of Library IT and a tenured professor at the University of TN at Chattanooga.

Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently a chapter in Library 2035 - Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries by Rowman & Littlefield. His latest full-length work Standards - Essential Knowledge, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, was published by MIT Press in March 2025.

He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.

2 replies on “Poorly Drawn Theatre”

Ian Taylor`s my DAD! Dead serious! You should see his “CrazyCat”, a comic so good, we named the cat after it! And as for PDT, I think he`s right. wouldn`t life be easier if we all just blamed the pope? Damned pope!

Ian Taylor`s my DAD! Dead serious! You should see his “CrazyCat”, a comic so good, we named the cat after it! And as for PDT, I think he`s right. wouldn`t life be easier if we all just blamed the pope? Damned pope!

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