Issue 100: Internet Governance
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 ac...
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Controlled Digital Lending…What’s the Fuss?
On March 16, 2023, I gave a presentation with this title to the code4lib conference in Princeton, New Jersey. The suggested links from the end of the presen...
Issue 99: Copyright for Generative Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT, DALL·E 2, and the like)
Cecil Mae Feather, 1929–2023 This issue is offered in honor of Cecil Mae Thornburg Feather, my mother-in-law. Cecil Mae w...
ReplayWeb for Embedding Social Media Posts (Twitter, Mastodon) in Web Pages
If you have been following social media news, you know that Twitter is having its issues. Although there is still a bit to go before it goes away (or, more ...
Issue 98: Time Standards - leap seconds forwards and backwards, moon time, internet time (then and now), and aliens
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. The Confessions of St. Augustine. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931, page 267. Translation...
Issue 97: Again with the AI Chatbots
The hot technology in the news now is chatbots driven by artificial intelligence. (This specific field of artificial intelligence is “large language models”...
LibNFT: a second look…still ‘nope’
The day after I posted LibNFT: a Project in Search of a Purpose, the project proponents held their CNI project briefing. The recording of that briefing is n...
Issue 96: Metadata
Metadata is at the core of what libraries do. (“metadata” is one of the most common tags on this here library technology blog.) We gather information about ...
Issue 95: Updating ChatGPT, Cryptomining, and Website-for-Small-Libraries Threads
This week we revisit threads from a month ago, a year ago, and 12 years ago. ChatGPT references a non-existent book AI generating news articles Crypt...
Issue 94: Controlled Digital Lending
E-books are a prominent theme looking back at a couple of year-end issues of DLTJ Thursday Threads. In 2010, a writer in Boston Review wondered about “books...
Backing Away from Twitter in Measured Steps
My relationship with Twitter crossed a new line yesterday. As I posted on Mastodon (one, two): Have just deleted the Twitter app on mobile. Felt the need...
Issue 93: Chat-bots Powered by Artificial Intelligence
This week we jump into the world of chat-bots driven by new artificial intelligence language models. The pace of announcements about general-purpose tools d...