UT-Knoxville appears to be doing an online survey concerning Blogging…
In other news, just ONE more project to finish the semester…woooooo- hoooooo.
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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.
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.
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I suppose that everybody needs
I suppose that everybody needs a dream.
As long as this guy is far, far away from me, that is.
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Here’s an interesting si
Here’s an interesting site that reviews Japanese Hentai (literally translated: Pervert) games.
http://www.somethingawful.com/hentai/
Yet another “how wacky are the japanese” thing….bear in mind that these very, very odd games are produced by a country that has practically NO rape, or any other violent crime.
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Not a lot of personal re
Not a lot of personal reflection lately…too much interesting stuff going on with the web, and MUCH to much work for school. 4 projects left for the semester….basically one every 3 days until the semester is over. Ick.
But on the positive, Bets and I have both found summer jobs, which is always a big deal for academia. Summer typically sucks, but this one should be pretty ok.
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More complete abus
More complete abuse of the DMCA. Security talk cancelled due to cease and desist from lawyers.
http://features.slashdot.org/features/03/04/14/1846250.shtml?tid=153&tid=172
and here, for your reading pleasure, is one of the papers that was “threatened” by our friends the lawyers. It provides vital security information to this campus in that one of these systems is in use, OneCard. I am providing this as a service to the campus community, and invite the legal team that threatened the talk to do the same to me. I am not only currently enrolled in a Security class which makes this relevant material and protected by fair use doctrine, but as a library science student, this directly impacts the income of my workplace, which makes it necessary to my livelihood. Combine these reasons with the First Amendment, and you’ve got a nice challenge on your hands.
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