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.
Have you seen this bike?
Giant Sedona 2003
Maroon and White
Seat and wheels have quick releases
Front shock, as well as shock on the seat
It currently has an Aluminum water bottle holder
If you see this bike around Chapel Hill or Carrboro, let me know.
It was stolen from me on Sept. 16th
griffey@email.unc.edu
Fuck.
Some fucking assface stole my fucking bike last night.
FUCKER.
As always….Bruce rocked. Just freaking amazing show. The fact that he's been rockin' with the E-Street band for over 30 years and can still feel and emote and put on a show like he did last night.
Highlight: opening with “I Walk the Line” from Johnny Cash.
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Just in case anyone was making plans for later in the week….keep your eyes on this. |
This is from Neil Gaiman's blog, after seeing an exerpt on Librarian.net.
I'd LOVE to have a Lucien figure…I'd keep him on my desk, to help me be a good librarian. 🙂
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Speaking as a librarian who is surrounded by librarians at work who are offended by this new librarian action figure, I can only say that perhaps it's time librarians across the board discovered the value of a good custom repaint on an action figure….
Hoping to make mine look rather delirious and get a Shakespeare one to go with so the two of them can have interesting conversations,
Anita
I wonder if they ever had this trouble when they did the Diskworld Librarian statues. (“We are not all orang-utans.”) It certainly makes me wish that DC would do a Lucien the Librarian Action figure for librarians everywhere.
Of course, if the whole point of the offended librarians is that librarians can, and, wisely, do, look like anyone, then any action figure would do. (“Isn't that a Gandalf toy?” “Nope it's a librarian. One with a hat and a beard.” “And he's next to a… Bettie Page toy?” “Nope. Just a cute, half-naked librarian with a big smile and a Bettie Page haircut.”)
The Man in Black is dead.
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So…I just found out that Ibiblio has pretty decents stats that are kept on the various pages they host. So I did a little data manipulation to get this chart of the last couple of months of my blog. This is just raw hits. Interesting roller-coaster. I'm really curious about what happened on the 23rd or 24th of August to drive my hits to over double their normal average. I'm not sure how to get ahold of my referal logs, though…anyone? |
Interesting story from the Washington Post concerning the rise of the “adult strategy board game.” It talks about Settlers of Catan and Puerto Rico, two really great games…Settlers some of you have played, Puerto Rico is one that I've been meaning to buy for a year now. For those of you who want to explore some good games, I suggest:
Cheapass Games
Looney Labs
and, of course: Raw Deal
I know that I missed this first time around (saw it, but didn't blog it), but for everyone looking for a P2P fix, try Earthstation 5. I haven't tried it, yet, but I will. But anyone who basically tells the RIAA to fuck themselves is ok in my book. Kazaa is not only unsafe, but the company recently fucked with Google results using the DMCA (another BIG no-no in my book). Earthstation looks like a good start, but future P2P software will be better…encrypted, with distributed file a la Bit Torrent, and IP spoofing with anonymity features. The RIAA can't win this battle…they can just prolong the bleeding.
Question of the day:
If more people are currently on P2P networks than voted in the last presidential election, why is it that the american people are allowing the RIAA to have the power that it does? Why aren't we berating our representatives for not changing the copyright law to reflect the digital revolution? How long will this take?