Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is 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 IT 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 AI & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design from 2018. His newest book, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, will be published by MIT Press in 2024.
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.
Jason can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.
After nearly 9 hours of driving we arrived at the lovely Holiday Inn, St. Augustine Beach. The weather, not exactly cooperative, decided to be cool, windy, and cloudy as hell. We walked on the beach anyway.
After some local pizza, we’re turning in. Tomorrow = up early, quick visit to historic St. Augustine, and then onwards towards The Mouse.
…my last day at MTSU. Tomorrow will be the first day of my vacation, and hopefully more regular posting to the blog for a bit. I have a backlog of things I want to talk about: Shirky’s ontology discussion, more thoughts on authority as a measure of reliability in knowledge gathering, and more random pop culture reflections. But those will have to wait a bit, probably ’til after Disney. 🙂
Pics of the Mouse upcoming this week. Be ready.
Thanks Mark!
Trish pointed out that my RSS feed seems to be broken, and I’ve spent some time trying to find out what’s going on without success. The actual RSS script is calling the database info and such, and should build the feed dynamically (as opposed to some software that builds the XML every time an update is done). The comments feed isn’t working either, but I tracked that to a link issue. The main RSS feed, when it runs, just generates a blank doc with nothing there.
Perplexing.
I can’t find anything in the WordPress Codex either. Anyone out there using WP with any ideas?
EDIT: So this is stranger than ever. When I checked the RSS at home, it worked fine. Here at work, nothing. I updated my .htaccess rules thinking there might be a rewrite issue in retrieval, but…well, it worked at home, just not here. I’m really, really perplexed.
So last night was Nine Inch Nails at the Orpheum in Boston, MA.
All I’ve got to say is: wow.
Not only did NIN play nearly everything I could have wanted to hear (Wish, Terrible Lie, Head like a Hole, Starfuckers, Hurt, and on and on and on) but they also gave a phenomenal stage show. The real surprise of the night though, was The Dresden Dolls. They opened for NIN, and just about rocked my face off. Crazy noise for just two people, great voice, the drummer was just nuts…I’m all over this album.
Today = heading to NY/NJ for some Raw Deal action. Wish me luck.
Well, tomorrow morning I will be taking off for a weekend in the great Northeast. First to Providence, RI, then to Boston, MA to see Nine Inch Nails in concert, then finally down to NY/NJ to see friends and play games.
I’ve got no idea what my intarweb access will be like along the way, so if the blog is quiet for a couple of days, I’m not dead. Wish me luck!
I’ve installed and am testing Spam Karma 2, the next generation blog-spam tool. The original did wonders for WP 1.3, but we’re up to 1.5.1 now and the tool needed an upgrade. It appears that this is a radically fully-featured spam tool, but the only real way to know is to test.
So testing I will go.
If anyone tries to leave a comment and gets caught or rejected, please let me know.
As promised, the pics from the wedding and reception are up on Flicker, under either daveandjean or jeananddave…if everyone would use those two tags when they add photos, we could build a nice album.
Hope everyone from the wedding got home safely (hope you found your keys, Jesse). Keep in touch…I miss everyone already.
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I had no idea that this template just completely fell apart in Internet Explorer.
Why is it that when you have a table with nested relative sizes (example: a row set to 100%, with 3 columns at 33% each, holding an image at width=”100%”) IE just ignores it. It appears to render the images full size, ignoring the width specifications of the table.
Anyone have any idea? Firefox happily renders it properly…