Is this the world's first Raw Deal blog?
Categories
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.
Categories
Well, Happy Day. It looks l
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.
Categories
Interesting court case toda
Interesting court case today….the US Supreme Court ruled against 20th Century Fox in a trademark suit. Essentially, the suit says that users of material under public domain do not have to worry about tracking down trademark information for the original creator of the material. Fox sued a company called Dastar after Dastar used material created by Fox, but allowed to fall out of copyright. Fox argued that repackaging it diluted the Fox trademark, which SCOTUS rejected. From CNN:
“Scalia said that if creative producers were required under the trademark law to attribute the origin of any uncopyrighted materials they used, it would be difficult.
“We do not think the Lanham Act requires this search for the source of the Nile and all its tributaries,” he wrote.
The Bush administration and other groups including the American Library Association had supported Dastar. “
So, good news for the public domain…now if we could just managed to GET a public domain again, we'd be in good shape.
Categories
Hmm. Upload still not entirely
Hmm. Upload still not entirely cooperating. Lots of reports over at radio.userland.com, so hopefully something will get changed soon. If not, I guess I'll do ANOTHER blog migration…check out moveable type or something.
Categories
Speaking of eating habits,
Speaking of eating habits, Abe and I had an interesting experience at Southpoint Mall yesterday…after seeing The Italian Job with Trish, she headed out and Abe and I tried to grab some grub. Unfortunately, every quick eatery at the mall evidently closes at 6pm on Sundays….all of them. Don't understand that, since the movie theatre shows movies all through the evening. The only things that stayed open were the sit down places that would take like 2 hours to get in and eat.
So: Boooooooo on the Food Court at Southpoint. Booooooooooooo.
Categories
Without Bets around, my sle
Without Bets around, my sleep/wake schedule is soooooo fucked up. I'm sliding into the 2-3am bed/10-11am wake schedule, which is normal for me, but weird after the regimentation of school. So this is a weird few days. And don't get me started on my eating habits….gah.
Categories
And back to the problems uploa
And back to the problems uploading…looks like the problem is that it has trouble with my home network. Which is interesting, but not a deal killer, since I can still blog, and then just upload it during my time at school.
Categories
In case some of you missed
In case some of you missed it, it turns out that the rescue of Jessica Lynch was….*gasp*…..not presented by the American government and media entirely factually.
Check the story from the BBC, since you can be sure the liberal American media isn't going to cover it.
Wait, let me do that again: <sarcasm>…the liberal American Media…</sarcasm>. That's better.
Categories
So lazy today….so much of no
So lazy today….so much of nothing done.
Categories
Spent WAAAAAY to much time
Spent WAAAAAY to much time on my new xbox today. Picked up Halo and Dead or Alive 3, and both are absolutely great games. Much fun will be had, and if anyone wants to join,buzz me. 🙂
To give you some idea how much I've played these games today, it's currently 4:13pm or so, and I have done almost literally nothing else today. Must….pry….controller….from….hand…..