Disruptive Library Technology Jester

My relationship with Twitter crossed a new line yesterday.

This week we jump into the world of chat-bots driven by new artificial intelligence language models.

At first, I thought this was a parody.

Back again.

A number of Mastodon operators have started to report the impact of the #TwitterMigration on their instances.

Well, this newsletter was off the air longer than I anticipated.

DALL*E prompt: photorealistic waves of twitter logos and mastodon logos crashing onto a sandy beach Much has been made about the differences between Twitter and Mastodon: the challenge of finding a home for your account (and the corresponding differences…

On November 7, 2022, OCLC and Clarivate announced a settlement in their lawsuit about using WorldCat records in the embryonic MetaDoor service.

I'm finding it valuable to create annotations on resources to index into my personal knowledge management system.

Earlier this week, NISO held its one-day NISO Plus Forum for 2022.

The People of Ukraine are not forgotten.

The first story below is one from National Public Radio on Ukraine libraries' efforts are undertaking.

For this week's newsletter introduction, I searched the Flikr service for photographs of libraries in Ukraine.

What a strange article title to type: Sanctioning Governments on the Internet.

We are one week into Russia's war against Ukraine.

I reached a new milestone this month.

I've deleted what I originally had here as newsletter-opening-banter.

The middle of February already.

This is the web page I wish I had found when I spent the afternoon sorting through why AWS CloudFormation kept telling me: Resource handler returned message: "Invalid request provided: AWS::CloudFront::PublicKey" Like me, you might be working on a Serverl…

The invoice is in.

In the past few months, I've created about a half-dozen projects using "serverless" infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Greetings from the wintery mix that is central Ohio.

The People Have Spoken On a whim, last Thursday I put out a poll with the announcement of last week's issue.

I was introduced to structured logs at work, and this ol' hacker thinks that is a darn good idea.

Alan the cat Wednesday night with a cat on the lap, composing the next day's Thursday Threads.

Late last year, I had my AT&T Uverse residential gateway replaced.

Welcome to issue 80 of Thursday Threads.

Success!

Welcome to the re-inaugural issue of DLTJ Thursday Threads.

So it has been quiet here for a couple of days.

Okay, a half-step backward to fix something I broke yesterday.

Look at that!

As 2021 comes to a close, I've been thinking about this blog and my own "personal knowledge management" tools.

Last month, EDUCAUSE published its Top 10 IT Issues for 2022 with the subtitle "The Higher Education We Deserve".

Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) editor here.

When I converted this blog from WordPress to a static site generated with Jekyll in 2018, I lost the ability for readers to make comments.

Bryan Brown's tweet led me to Ruth Kitchin Tillman's Repository Ouroboros post about the treadmill of software development/deployment.

It 'tis the season for graduations, and this year my nephew is graduating from high school.

Over the weekend, I posted an article here about pre-recording conference talks and sent a tweet about the idea on Monday.

The Code4Lib conference was last week.

Earlier this month, my Twitter timeline lit up with mentions of a half-day webinar called Cybersecurity Landscape - Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure.

I may nod off several times in composing this post the day after election day.

This is an article draft that was accidentally published.

During the inaugural NISO Plus meeting at the end of February, I was surprised and proud to receive the Ann Marie Cunningham Service award.

I saw it happen.

Bringing remote presenters into a face-to-face conference is challenging and fraught with peril.

In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short.

In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short.

Eighteen years ago, on Friday, September 7th, 2001, I was honored to be asked to participate in a naturalization ceremony for 46 new citizens of the United States in a courtroom of Judge Alvin Thompson in Hartford, Connecticut.

These are the presentation notes for the Engaging with Open Source Technologies presentation during the Open Source Publishing Technologies: Current Status and Emerging Possibilities webinar on Wednesday, August 14, 2019.