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A month ago Clarivate announced a new yet-to-be-released product called Nexus: "Clarivate Nexus acts as a bridge between the convenience of AI and the rigor of academic libraries".

This is the text and slides from my talk at Everything Open 2026.

Let's solve the problem but let's not make it any worse by guessing.

How to make a custom template for the Remarkable 2 Recently I decided I wanted to make a custom template to use on my reMarkable 2.

This week I migrated my virtual server from Digital Ocean, where I pay in USD, to a host in Australia, where the punishing and ever-worse currency exchange rate doesn't make monthly bills a lottery.

This past fortnight has been rather tumultuous in Australian libraries.

I run some lightweight privacy-respecting self-hosted analytics for my blog, so I know what my most popular posts were in 2024.

I've had a couple of people ask for advice on LIS courses recently, so I thought it might be useful to write up some thoughts as a blog post in case anyone else has similar questions.

In October I attended the Fantastic Futures conference in Canberra.

Today a new open book, Open Education down undOER: Australasian case studies was launched at the OE GLobal conference in Brisbane.

Like many people I often read things and feel the urge to share them with other people.

Apart from the infamous one about 3D printers (I was right), and the one that featured on the orange site, my most popular post is a fairly technical one about GitHub webhooks.

I missed the first day of VALA 2024, but I was there for days 2 and 3.

This week was VALA 2024 and I was lucky enough to attend and present a poster.

A couple of weeks ago Emilia Bell published The problem with solutions, an interesting take on some of the problems with the management mantra I encountered a lot in my earlier years in the profession: Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions.

On 18 June I delivered a keynote address to the ANZREG 2024 conference.

I recently read Tyson Yunkaporta's Right story, wrong story – his latest book after the one that grew a bunch of new synapses in my brain, Sand Talk.

Every so often, somebody makes a bot account in the fediverse, expects people to love it, and is then surprised when people get mad.

On Monday Minister for the Arts Tony Burke announced that "The Albanese Labor Government will secure the long-term future of Trove, one of Australia’s most significant historical and cultural resources".