Categories
Author: griffey
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.
Categories
In Honor of the win…
After seeing Loren’s tribute to the Heels, I’ve decided to similarly attire my blog for a bit in Carolina Blue. I’ll go back to the old color scheme (or maybe a new one?) but for now, the blog is going blue.
Categories
Followup on Tarheel Championship
Just a few links from the morning after the tarheel win:
- Is That Legal has the police report from Chapel Hill
- Fickr images from Franklin Street last night
- Here’s a few more Flickr photos
- Daily Tar Heel reports on the win
- Durham Herald-Sun
- Inside Carolina has audio and transcript of an interview with Coach Williams and some of the players
- And a Google News link for an overview of coverage around the country
Categories
Help me, Blogosphere…
…you’re my only hope.
While I’m the mack-daddy of image formats (wanna know the dif between LZW compression, and GIF compression? Just ask), I am largely ignorant of the intricacies of audio manipulation. So I call to you, blogosphere: I have a WAV file of my blog presentation that I gave this morning, and I’d love to equalize the volume…it was recorded on a stationary mic, while I moved around. Thus, it fades sometimes, and I’d love to normalize the volume. Any open/free tools out there that anyone would recommend for VERY basic sorts of audio editing?
Categories
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Here comes Carolina-lina
Here comes Carolina-lina
We hail from NCU
We’ve got the team to win it
We’ve got the spirit in it
We wear the colors white and blue
So it’s fight, fight, fight for Carolina
As Davie did in days of old
As we rally round the Well
Cheer that Tar Heel team like Hell
For the glory of NCU
Categories
Right about now….
….I’m giving a presentation called Blogs and Wikis: One of these words is English for MTSU and their 2005 IT Conference. Wish me luck! Oh, and check the blog out if you’re curious about the conference. At least, I hope the blog gets a workout…we’ll see. This is all new for MTSU.
Categories
GO HEELS!
Last night, our Tarheels beat Michigan State to move into the NCAA finals!
Categories
RIP Mitch Hedberg
Mitch passed away a couple of days ago, but I hadn’t had a chance to talk about it yet. He was a fabulous comedian, and I feel sad that I just discovered his stuff months ago. Another brilliant mind gone away due to heroin. How many comedians have we lost to that?
Categories
Oh yeah, it’s April Fools Day
Quick roundup of the geek April Fool’s tradition for the year…posting fake articles/sites.
- Google GULP!
- BoringBoring.org
- Linux hires Paris Hilton
- Gmail and Infinity + 1 storage
- Buy an iCopulate, the Fundue, or a Green Laser Aircraft Tracker at Thinkgeek.
- Scientific America Gives Up
- fark.com: a rotating set of prank pages instead of the actual homepage
Categories
WordPress Ethical issues
Bit of a buzz around the wordpress forums and such today regarding Matt Mullenweg (the originator of WordPress) and his psuedo-ethical adword scheme to help pay for wordpress hosting. From the waxy.org link above:
I discovered last week that since early February, he’s been quietly hosting at least 120,000 168,000 articles on their website. These articles are designed specifically to game the Google Adwords program, written by a third-party about high-cost advertising keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes, and mortgages. (Update: Google is actively removing every article from their results, but here’s a saved copy of the first page of results. You can still view about 25,000 results on Yahoo. Here’s an example of some results in MSN.)
Ok, so…scamming the adwords in google seems a tad slimy, but understandable. Hiding the adwords articles with odd CSS positioning tricks lends even more oddity to the issue.
As someone on the waxy thread says…why didn’t he just do a straightforward ad-words column on the page? WordPress.org has enough traffic to make that worth his time, I would think.
In any case, we’ll see what Matt has to say when he returns from Italy.
EDIT: Google and Yahoo have both already removed these from their results. MSN still lists them, and here’s a direct link showing what Matt did. Load the page, then view: source and check the last DIV.