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.
Oooooooo….from BoingBoing, a page full of completely outrageous truck mods from Japan. And I don't mean truck like “hey I got a pickup that I made into a lowrider” I mean like “I've got a semi and a dumptruck and I want them to have more chrome than the entire state of Texas.” These are just beautiful in their own way…make sure you check out the pics at the bottom in the dark.
For those of you out in blog land looking for a tasteful, thoughtful gift for your dad for fathers day (or really, for any occasion for anyone you love), may I present you with this fine option.
Currently number nine on the Amazon Hats, Gloves, Scarves best selling list,but sure to rise quickly.
This will be ALL over the library blogs, but eh…I'll do it anyway.
BoingBoing posts about a hotel in New York called The Library Hotel that has themed itself after the Dewey Decimal system. It has 10 floors, one for each of the primary distinctions of the system, with each room being a subset of the classification. Then, each room has shelves with books from that particular classfication.
Someone call the guys at SLA so they can go by this place! If any of you happen to read this…check it out!
In kind of bizzaro-world tech news, Palm has agreed to buy Handspring. For those who aren't up on the history of these two companies, the founders of Handspring are also the founders of Palm. They founded Palm, sold it to US Robotics, made money, got sold to 3Com, left because they didn't like 3Com, founded Handspring, made money, and are now selling the company they founded back to the company they left. Not only that, but Jeff Dawkins (one of the two founders along with Donna Dubinsky) has taken a job with 3Com, the company that he left to found Handspring.
Gah.
Just about to get off work…just have time to blog for a moment about a book that's really making me think: Bobo's in Paradise by David Brooks, an incredibly sharp witted look at the newest ruling class in the US, the bourgeois bohemians (Bobo for short). The book takes a historical look at the class structure of the US, from roughly the turn of the century on, and comments on the differences in intellectual and power classes through time. From the “refined and connected” class of the 30's and 40's through the bohemian uprising into the 60's, and the historical ties both had to European cultures…it's really eye opening to read an expose on a culture that you are a part of, but didn't even realize existed. Fascinating, and it's causing me to rethink a lot of things in both my studies and my life. Can't ask for more than that from a book, I suppose.
A new blog that I'm taking part in as an interesting experiment…
A group of SILS kids, banging on keyboards about the media.
Awwwww…my sister just got a puppy.
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Is this the world's first Raw Deal blog?
Well, Happy Day. It looks like I found out what was going on with my blog software….I had a relative link instead of an absolute link for my FTP path. So, maybe things will get updated properly from now on…AND, my archives seem to be working.