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.

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Just some quick shots from my weekend…The upper left pic is Barron, the co-creator of Raw Deal, who drove down from Connecticut for the tourney. The upper right is a shot of the crowd playing, and the lower right is a picture of the WWF Hardcore Belt that was the prize for the tournament on Saturday night.

The lower left pic deserves some special explanation….one of the many things that fans of a wrestling card game do is, well…some of them tend to make you remember that *fan* is short for *fanatic*. This is a wrestling move known variably as the Acid Drop or the Dudley Dog, and the picture is of Dan Lopretto and Rob Drexler executing said move. Don't ask what the outcome was.
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My Raw Deal Weekend….

Just some quick shots from my weekend…The upper left pic is Barron, the co-creator of Raw Deal, who drove down from Connecticut for the tourney. The upper right is a shot of the crowd playing, and the lower right is a picture of the WWF Hardcore Belt that was the prize for the tournament on Saturday night.

The lower left pic deserves some special explanation….one of the many things that fans of a wrestling card game do is, well…some of them tend to make you remember that *fan* is short for *fanatic*. This is a wrestling move known variably as the Acid Drop or the Dudley Dog, and the picture is of Dan Lopretto and Rob Drexler executing said move. Don’t ask what the outcome was.

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So I've been in

So I've been in Cerebral Hobbies for 15 hours now, running Raw Deal tourneys. Fun, but I'm freaking exhausted.

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Well…I've been intel

Well…I've been intellectually, if not technologically, scooped.

Check out this new art project in NY that's remarkably like the database idea I've been kicking around for a few weeks.

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I just saw my favorite movie of the year thus far: Kill Bill. I'm not sure that it's the best movie of the year, but it may be the most well crafted. Tarantino once again shows that he can not only make violence look like the most beautiful thing in the world, but he can do so with pinache and verve. His choices for music, as always, are just perfect for any given scene. Uma Thurman gives an outstanding performance as The Bride, and unfortunately I think the subtlety of her work in this film will be vastly overshadowed by people commenting on the bloodshed. Plus, it has David Carradine in it.

For anyone who enjoys the aesthetic of violence at all, or likes the Tarantino aesthetic, this film is his return to greatness.
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Kill Bill

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I just saw my favorite movie of the year thus far: Kill Bill. I’m not sure that it’s the best movie of the year, but it may be the most well crafted. Tarantino once again shows that he can not only make violence look like the most beautiful thing in the world, but he can do so with pinache and verve. His choices for music, as always, are just perfect for any given scene. Uma Thurman gives an outstanding performance as The Bride, and unfortunately I think the subtlety of her work in this film will be vastly overshadowed by people commenting on the bloodshed. Plus, it has David Carradine in it.

For anyone who enjoys the aesthetic of violence at all, or likes the Tarantino aesthetic, this film is his return to greatness.
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Fuck the DMCA

Ok…this is insanity on top of insanity.

Please, someone…for all that is decent and fair in this country…kill the DMCA.

Story about someone getting sued for pointing at the SHIFT key.

Slashdot article on same.

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And there was power.

And there was power.

And there was much rejoicing.

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Can I move to the UK?

Cause it seems like they might just get it there. Here’s a link to the speech given by Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC New Media & Technology, and here are 5 things you will NEVER hear an American Media leader say:

1. “At the simplest level — audiences will want to organize and re-order content the way they want it”
2. “We should create more programmes that come with the meta-data, the tags in the programme that allow it to be chopped up and consumed piece meal by the viewer. ”
3. “Traditionally we have always thought that TV was about lying back relaxing and at best, half hearted interaction. In fact, recent trials again in Hull proved otherwise — audiences want a lot more than this. They want to create their own content either from scratch, or perhaps using tools and support that a broadcaster can provide”
4. “Downloading and sharing this video is the final piece of the jigsaw and will create a killer combination that I believe could undermine the existing models of pay-TV. ”
5. “We are exploring legitimate peer-to-peer models to get our users to share our content, on our behalf, amongst themselves, transparently.”

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The end times have started…

…and there is NOTHING online more postmodern than this.

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