…yet. Betsy is having trouble with blogger uploading her posts, and my laptop power supply died.
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Sad tech times in the sandlin-griffey household.
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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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It's 8:30 am….
…and already I'm jealous of someone. Erik Demaine just won a MacArthur grant. He's 22. Oh, and already a PhD. Gah. That's just freaking amazing. Check out the other winners here.
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It’s 8:30am….
…and already I’m jealous of someone.
Erik Demaine just won a MacArthur grant. He’s 22. Oh, and already a PhD.
Gah. That’s just freaking amazing.
Check out the other winners here.
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Just in case you were wonderin
Just in case you were wondering where you could buy Puroresu (Japanese Wrestling) masks for your GI Joe figures:
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Burninating the peasants!
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Very funny “
Very funny “You know you live in Chapel Hill when...” post.
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Censorship?
Interesting case out of Florida…the band Hell on Earth is interested in having someone commit suicide live onstage while they are performing, and a terminally ill patient has agreed to do so. Evidently, the State has a problem with this.
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I have so many problems wit
I have so many problems with this, I can't even begin to list them all.
The University of Florida has began using a program called Icarus to discover students on campus using their computers as servers, and requiring them to stop. This is supposedly to prevent P2P abuse and limit copyright violations. The problem is, of course, that it also prevents ANY FREAKING USE OF THE COMPUTER AS A SERVER. You can play games on a LAN, you can't do an enormous number of useful and educational things with your computer. The burden of proof is up to the student to show that his use of the system is non-violating…this just strikes me as a priori censorship…no one is going to TRY if they know they're going to be dragged before the school and forced to defend themselves. So no more P2P downloading songs you already own (NOT a copyright violation), or using P2P to grab large files (linux distributions, etc…). Stupid, stupid, stupid….
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New Blog Software?
I’m just testing some new blog software…WordPress, an offshoot of B2. We’ll see how this goes for a bit, with some tweaking. I like Userland, but this has some advantages, esp the fact that I can access it from anywhere, rather than just from my laptop.
So, unless I get Tiki working, and it just blows me out of the water, I will switch over to WordPress.
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Photos are up from our trip this past weekend. No captions yet, but that's mainly because we took SO MANY FREAKING PICTURES. Over the course of basically 3 days, we took 185 pictures or so…go, go digital camera!
A quick review: lots of friends, beautiful campus, wacky old sanitarium, karaoke party, wonderful dinner and lots of fun.