Disruptive Library Technology Jester

Inspired by Tom Whitwell's 52 things I learned in 2022, I started my own list of things I learned in 2023 and repeated it last year.

After previous DTLJ Thursday Threads issues on digital privacy, surveillance camera systems, and federal government systems, I'm focusing this week on what is happening at the local level—mainly in policing.

After DTLJ Thursday Threads issues on digital privacy and surveillance camera systems, I'm focusing this week on the more general topic of government-sponsored or -enabled surveillance.

After last week's issue on digital privacy, I thought I'd focus this week on government-sponsored or -enabled surveillance.

Formerly just #TeslaTakedown protest signs, this post is now more general — protest signs against the growing authoritarianism that Donald Trump is trying to normalize.

This week's DLTJ Thursday Threads looks at digital privacy concerns from the commercial perspective.

I don't know how many there were at the protest today in front of the Easton Tesla store, but for the first time we covered all four corners of the intersection.

Two years ago this month, I wrote a DLTJ Thursday Threads article on the copyright implications of foundational AI models.

My protest sign for the #TeslaTakedown today.

The U.S.

Social media saturates nearly every facet of our lives, and understanding its effects on society has never been more critical.

My protest sign for the #TeslaTakedown today.

This week's thread of articles looks at the ever-evolving landscape of digital security and privacy through end-to-end encryption.

My protest sign for the #TeslaTakedown today.

Last week's Thursday Threads was on generative AI in libraries.

"Artificial Intelligence" is a vast field of study, and today's focus on generative AI is just the latest evolution of that field.

I've been in or near higher education for my entire career, so it is probably no surprise that educational technology ranks high on DLTJ topics.

Batteries are among the technologies that have had a silent, dramatic change over my lifetime.

With millions of digital transactions taking place every day, have you ever wondered about the complex world behind your simple card swipe?

In this week's Thursday Threads, I'll point to articles on the contentious subject of facial recognition technology.

This week's Thursday Threads looks at digital storage from the past and the future.

This week, I'm going to tug on time.

I'm about halfway through Saul Griffith's 2021 Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future, and I find the author makes a compelling point about bringing nearly everything—energy creation, transmission, and use—to a common factor of "ele…

One of the very first issues of Thursday Threads was on data centers (2011).

Inspired by Tom Whitwell's 52 things I learned in 2022, I started my own list of things I learned in 2023.

Four years ago I posted my reflections here on the 2020 presidential election.

This was going to be only a post about how I got the Ghost newsletter software to use Amazon Simple Email Service (AWS SES) instead of the built-in Mailgun support, but it turned into that plus why I can't use Ghost for the DLTJ Newsletter.

One thing that would dramatically clarify the controlled digital lending concept in general and the Hachette v.

In my prior two posts, I outlined a strategy to minimize personally identifiable information in library automation systems (idea overview, impact on FOLIO).

In the previous blog post, I outlined the concept of a library system with no personally identifiable information as a way to safeguard a patron's right to privacy.

Library systems hold significant information about patrons, including their search and reading histories.

The British Library suffered a major cyber attack in October 2023 that encrypted and destroyed servers, exfiltrated 600GB of data, and has had an ongoing disruption of library services after four months.

Inspired by Tom Whitwell's 52 things I learned in 2022, I started my own list of things I learned in 2023.

While on vacation, I was catching up on some personal knowledge management maintenance I had been putting off.

WOLFcon—the World Open Library Foundation Conference—was held last month, and all of the meetings were recorded using Zoom.

In May 2023 I was asked to join the opening session at Georgia's GIL User Group Meeting.

The Congressional Research Service has posted four reports about verifying users' ages for various services online in the past few months.

One of the hidden gems of the Library of Congress is the Congressional Research Service (CRS).

According to reputable sources, this blog contains 0.00006% of the world's knowledge.

It's coming up on four months this week since I left Twitter, and I started wondering about the impact of that.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is just over a year old, and shortly after the war started there were calls to cut Russia off from the internet as a punitive action.

On March 16, 2023, I gave a presentation with this title to the code4lib conference in Princeton, New Jersey.

Cecil Mae Feather, 1929–2023 This issue is offered in honor of Cecil Mae Thornburg Feather, my mother-in-law.

If you have been following social media news, you know that Twitter is having its issues.

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.

The hot technology in the news now is chatbots driven by artificial intelligence.

The day after I posted LibNFT: a Project in Search of a Purpose, the project proponents held their CNI project briefing.

Metadata is at the core of what libraries do.

This week we revisit threads from a month ago, a year ago, and 12 years ago.

E-books are a prominent theme looking back at a couple of year-end issues of DLTJ Thursday Threads.