Author: griffey

Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is 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 IT 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 AI & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design from 2018. His newest book, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, will be published by MIT Press in 2024.

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.

Jason can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.

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Because without impermanence

Emptiness is impermanence, it is change.
We should not complain about impermanence,
because without impermanence, nothing is possible.

I am not a spiritual person. I do not believe in a God, or a spirit, or an afterlife. But I can see the beauty and truth in the above Buddhist quote, and I feel its weight. It is incredible to me how emotional I have been tonight after learning about the death of Steve Jobs. It is fortunate for the 21st century that we had Steve as long as we did, but I will not complain about impermanence. It is what allows the future to happen.

Thanks for showing us your vision of the future, Steve. I look forward to seeing what is possible next.

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I swear I will scream if I have to read one more comment that mentioned how Amazon’s…

I swear I will scream if I have to read one more comment that mentioned how Amazon's Kindle Fire is "just as locked down" as the iPad, like that's a bad thing. Seriously, people…do you complain that your Microwave uses proprietary parts? That you can't run arbitrary programs on your toaster? Seriously?

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Great quote from +Kevin Kelly, riffing off of Arthur C

ass=”proflinkPrefix”>+Kevin Kelly, riffing off of Arthur C. Clarke: "This is the futurist's dilemma: Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. Either way, a futurist can't win. He is either dismissed or wrong."

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The Technium: The Futurist's Dilemma
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My post summarizing yesterday’s Amazon Kindle announcements, with some thoughts…

My post summarizing yesterday's Amazon Kindle announcements, with some thoughts on how it effects libraries.

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Ready, Aim….Fire! | ALA TechSource
Submitted by Jason Griffey on September 28, 2011 – 10:36pm. That explosion you heard today? That was the sound of a thousand heads hitting a thousand desks over at Barnes & Noble HQ today as Amazo…

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Ready, Aim…Fire!

Head over to the ALA TechSource blog to see my take on the new Amazon Kindle announcements. The new models announced yesterday, along with pricing, are:

There’s lots more at TechSource, but the pull-quote from the article is probably:

For libraries, however, with the exception of cheaper cost-per-device you want to provide…well, nothing really changes. Amazon is still providing books at the publisher’s set cost that are licensed in such a way that limits the ability of libraries to circulate them (the books, not the devices). The Kindle/Overdrive deal doesn’t change at all…you can just buy a Kindle to circ to patrons for $40 less than you could yesterday. But the technological hurdles for our patrons on the user-experience front as well as the backend limitations of the DRM provided files are still the same as ever.

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I have a fearless child

She's not even 4, and she begged me months ago to try a small one of these in a mall. Now she's convinced that they are the best things on earth and she must do them anytime there is one in sight.

She's awesome.

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Really interesting take on design choices for devices…going to have to think about…

Really interesting take on design choices for devices…going to have to think about this for a bit.

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Hands Per Device (HPD)
Hands-per-device, or HPD, is an alternative approach to efficiently designing interactive content and applications for a today's multi-platform ecosystem.

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On the Domain

An absolutely beautiful video that shows off the place I live. Watch it in HD if you can, it’s worth it.

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Apple is now within $20 Billion of the combined Market Cap of Microsoft & Google….

Apple is now within $20 Billion of the combined Market Cap of Microsoft & Google. And as MG says, they still haven't announced the iPhone5, or the iPad3.

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apple is approaching $400 billion market cap

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parislemon • It has been almost a month since Steve Jobs…
It has been almost a month since Steve Jobs officially stepped down as CEO of Apple. Today the stock is literally off-the-charts at a new all-time high. Apple’s market cap is now nearly $25 billion……

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Library-types: What are your special collections/archives using for digital asset…

Library-types: What are your special collections/archives using for digital asset management? I'm looking for suggestions, mainly to be used for for internal findability, not external display. Thoughts?

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