In honor of the 47723468 hours of curling that NBC is giving us during their Winter Olympics coverage, I give you: Heavy Metal Curling with the Swedish Women’s Curling Team.
No, I’m not joking.
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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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Google Trusted Tester
Check this out….Google has a private alpha tester network of people invited by current Google employees. The Trusted Tester program can be seen as a login option here, and there’s a Tester FAQ online here. Interesting to know how the first draft of stuff gets looked at. Would be really interesting to see all the different things they have tested, but never make it to public beta.
Anybody out there wanna invite me along for the ride? 🙂
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Hacking a fireplace
This is by far the coolest fireplace ever.
Complete photoset here, with step by step shots of how it was done. All I know is, it’s freaking cool. Makes me want to mod our fireplace into something cool, which is always the sign of a good hack. It makes others want to do it.
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Odd search engine result…
Inspired by Walt’s recent ego surfing, I decided to see what a few search engines thought of me. In doing so, I came across a really odd result….Yahoo has, as the 20th hit for the search “Jason Griffey“, a Yahoo Local page on Science and Technology.
Except that I’m not actually on the page. That is, there’s no mention of me anywhere.
Now, it’s true that Cowan is local…I’m just a few miles from the town. But why link me to science and technology in the area when there’s no direct textual referent?
Thoughts?
I was just notified that I’ve been accepted in the 2006 HigherEd BlogCon!
I’ll be doing a presentation on how we’ve leveraged/are leveraging blogs here at UTC to fulfill some not-so-straightforward information needs. My proposal says:
This presentation will walk through the installation, configuration, and customization of WordPress 2.0, with a discussion of the benefits of the Structured Blogging plugin, an RSS aggregation plugin, how to use PHP inside of WordPress Pages to create dynamic content. All of this will be framed in the context of outreach to patrons and interaction with academic departments, with discussion of what we’ve found useful, potential for integration with the larger University IT system, and a look at future uses of the technology.
Between this, an invitation from LITA to speak on a blog panel at ALA Annual, a presentation at the TLA/SELA Conference in April, and acceptance at the ACRL Immersion program…damn I’m going to have a busy year. But I’m thrilled!
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Fight Club goes Bollywood
While I’m not sure this has any ties at all to the David Fincher film of the same name, nor to the Chuck Palahniuk book….the fact that it might is enough to make me giggle like a school girl.
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Happy Darwin Day!
In honor of the 197th birthday of Charles, everyone should take a moment and read a bit of the Origin of the Species, and remind ourselves that his ideas changed everything. Definitely one of the greatest works of humankind.
Video of Indiana discovering the joys of playing with snowballs.
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