Working on the new blog, but…..decided to go ahead with this particular update:
Me, with short hair.
🙂
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Author: griffey
Jason Griffey was most recently 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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Quick update on why I haven’t
Quick update on why I haven’t been doing much blogging….
….it’s mainly cause I’m building a better blog. 🙂 I’m in the process of trying out Radio Userland as an alternative to blogger for what I want to be able to do with my blog. Blogger is a GREAT tool, but the basic blogger doesn’t support comments (have to get those from another site) among other things. Radio uses CSS and XML in interesting ways, supports RSS feeds for my site, archives in XML instead of HTML…just generally does things the way I want.
SO….I’m building. Soon, all will be revealed.
🙂
Jason
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So for no apparent reason, I’m
So for no apparent reason, I’m just going to write a bit.
I got into this library thing because it seemed to meet and bring together an amazing number of interests of mine, and indeed, I have discovered that it does. The fact is, though, that my interests seem to run to the esoteric. The most “librarian” thing that I am interested in is reference, but my real passion lies in the areas of contention and theory, like freedom of speech, the PATRIOT act, information freedom like Open Source and Free software, p2p systems and their use in the breaking down of the copyright system (copyright, until the digital age, wasn’t difficult….now, it’s nearly untenable). The real question is: how do these things make a job? The more I look at it, the more I see working at a library as a means to getting a law degree….*sigh*. But do I really wanna do that?
What say you, anonymous visitors?
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Thought for the day:
Thought for the day:
You will never, ever hear me putting down Chapel Hill….it’s an amazing place to live. There is one, small problem….I have to admit, they make better bagels up north. The things we get here are less bagels and more cream cheese delivery units.
They are bagelesque….bagel-like. But they clearly aren’t bagels. And no…chains like Bregger’s aren’t either.
*sigh*
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UT-Knoxville appears to be doi
UT-Knoxville appears to be doing an online survey concerning Blogging…
In other news, just ONE more project to finish the semester…woooooo- hoooooo.
Here we have a bizarre case. One of my favorite online comics, Penny Arcade, was served a cease and desist from American Greetings, the owners of the characters in the Strawberry Shortcake family of products most of us probably remember from our youth. The problem in question is this comic (also here as PNG), which parodies a game creator called America McGee, whose specialty is taking children’s stories (Alice in Wonderland, Oz) and taking them gothic. Clearly, American Greetings didn’t think it was funny.
Sad state of intellectual property in the US continues. PA can’t afford to fight this, so they just have to roll over.
Or, they make a strip like this.
🙂
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Ok. I don’t have any idea how
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The funniest Xmen 2 review you
The funniest Xmen 2 review you will ever read.
http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=15038
Funny, funny stuff. One of the many examples of youth that should be on ritalin drips.
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Bad people in library land:
Bad people in library land:
Obviously doing research, U Penn Library Director has 2,000 illicit kiddie porn images on computer
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mosher1.html
Ick.
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Ok…not a lot of personal stu
Ok…not a lot of personal stuff on here over the last few weeks. Mainly because I’m SWAMPED with work. but next week will be the end of it, and hopefully the summer will bring some less stressful time.
Overall, though, it’s been an ok semester. Lots of great classes, just gotta get through the last projects.