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.
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 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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An absolutely beautiful video that shows off the place I live. Watch it in HD if you can, it’s worth it.
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 management? I'm looking for suggestions, mainly to be used for for internal findability, not external display. Thoughts?
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Truly strange decisions by Netflix…there are a few reason this is probably happening, none of them good for consumers. sigh
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Why is Netflix splitting its world based on business models rather than users' mental models? They're being foolish. Where are movie ratings going to go? To the Qwikster website? Will it or won't it affect the streaming recommendations? ::faceplant:: And why the hell change the brand for the DVD delivery when DVD-only users are the least likely to understand what the changes mean? Wow for brand cluelessness. And OMG did the CEO's "apology" make him look even more out of touch:
http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html
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the post: An Explanation and Some Reflections
I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation. It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked re…
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One more…love this.
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I'm all about random music from YouTube today.
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Get through the afternoon slump with The Ramones
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Exploded View of MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer
The New York Times is featuring a wonderful exploded view of a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer illustrated by Frank O’Connell.
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