Has anyone see my face?
I believe that I had it rocked off last night.
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Author: griffey
Jason Griffey is the Executive Director of the Open Science Hardware Foundation. Prior to joining OSHF, he was the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he worked to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise was 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 Library IT and a tenured professor 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 a chapter in Library 2035 - Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries by Rowman & Littlefield. His latest full-length work Standards - Essential Knowledge, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, was published by MIT Press in March 2025.
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.
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Busy, busy weekend. First o
Busy, busy weekend. First off was a birthday lunch at PF Changs for Karen that ended up in the mall for many more hours than is probably healthy. Saturday was a failed bicycle riding attempt with Jean and Justin (maybe next weekend?) and today = Counting Crows/John Mayer concert at Alltel in Raleigh. Then…more school.
I've decided that I really like school…I just don't want to do the damn work right now.
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Baseball pics are up!
Baseball pics are up!
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Thanks to all the feedback
Thanks to all the feedback from yesterdays post, it looks like I will be switching over to Jones' Virtual Communities class.
This has a lot to do with the fact that I'm just not really having fun in Ethics. It seems like a good class, and would be good….it just seems like a big review to me, having done much of this sort of thing previously. Virtual Communities seems like it would be more fun, and quite frankly as an elective, I'd rather have fun.
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Second day of school. Faced wi
Second day of school. Faced with dilemma. Please help.
I'm currently enrolled in Information Ethics with Dr. Wildemuth. It appears to be a good class, and it will cover a lot of ground that I think I will enjoy.
However, I would really like to take Paul Jones' class in Virtual Communities. Which, of course, meets at the same time.
So…with no other info: what do you all think?
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This is one of the cooler t
This is one of the cooler things I've seen in the world of Information Ethics in a long while. Privacy Activism has put together a Flash game which wraps up a TON of useful information for college students in one place: privacy, online tracking, copyright infringment….just tons of interesting things. Check it out.
from the Wired Article….
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Learning to Play the Prying Game. Privacy Activism seeks to illustrate the pitfalls awaiting newly minted college students through a new Flash game. Will Carabella be hounded by identity thieves and data aggregators? Play and find out. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]
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While tomorrow is technical
While tomorrow is technically the first day of school, today sure felt like it. I took part in the UNC Summer Reading discussion section, leading a discussion of 18 freshmen concerning the book Nickel And Dimed. Prior to that was work in the Serials Cataloging Department in Davis, and after it was training in the Reference Dept. in the same library. After THAT, there was a meeting in Manning for the first year SILSer's.
I'm trying desperately to not think about the fact that I have to be on campus at 8:15am for a class tomorrow. Or that Tuesdays are my longest day at school.
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Freaking fabulous news from
Freaking fabulous news from the BBC: They're putting their archives (both radio and TV) online, for free, accessible by anyone. This is just completely the coolest thing ever…hopefully this will be a model for future open information from other media creators.
Best quote of the year (I want this thing on a T-shirt):
“I believe that we are about to move into a second phase of the digital revolution, a phase which will be more about public than private value; about free, not pay services; about inclusivity, not exclusion. ” -Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC
Read the story here.
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Thanks to everyone who partici
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Hizzle Last Gasp of Summer Dinner Party last night…the food was amazing from all. Hizzle needs to provide us all with the recipe for those chocolate pepper cookies, and possibly the pasta sauce as well (was it anything except tomato and mozzarella?). Trish: how do you do the Baked Brie?
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I'm torn between think
I'm torn between thinking this is really freaking cool, and mildly insulting.
The Good:
“The Distributed Library Project is an experiment in sharing information and building community in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
The Bad:
“Unfortunately, the traditional library system doesn't do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people. In fact, if you try to talk with someone holding a book you like – you'll probably get shushed.”