Issue 91: Bibliographic Records and Mastodon Migration
Well, this newsletter was off the air longer than I anticipated. A lot has happened since issue 90 in late March: cryptocurrency value falling, Twitter spir...
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With Mastodon on the Rise, Who Archives the Digital Public Square?
DALL*E prompt: photorealistic waves of twitter logos and mastodon logos crashing onto a sandy beach Much has been m...
OCLC v. Clarivate: What was MetaDoor? What is an OCLC Record?
On November 7, 2022, OCLC and Clarivate announced a settlement in their lawsuit about using WorldCat records in the embryonic MetaDoor service. This ended th...
Automatically Generating Podcast Transcripts
I’m finding it valuable to create annotations on resources to index into my personal knowledge management system. (The Obsidian journaling post from late las...
Trip Report: NISO Plus Forum 2022
Earlier this week, NISO held its one-day NISO Plus Forum for 2022. This was an in-person meeting that is intended to feed into t...
Issue 90: When Machine Learning Goes Wrong
The People of Ukraine are not forgotten. The Tufts University newspaper published an article this week about a multinational effort to preserve the digital ...
Issue 89: Ukraine’s Libraries, Russia’s Internet, and the Big Deal
The first story below is one from National Public Radio on Ukraine libraries’ efforts are undertaking. Let’s not forget the terror they are facing, the peop...
Issue 88: Battling Censorship, Considering the Right to be Forgotten
For this week’s newsletter introduction, I searched the Flikr service for photographs of libraries in Ukraine. I thought that putting a picture here at the ...
Sanctioning Governments on the Internet
What a strange article title to type: Sanctioning Governments on the Internet. What does that even mean? Who would decide? Who would implement the decisio...
Issue 87: Ukraine War, Artificial Intelligence Art
We are one week into Russia’s war against Ukraine. From here in America, it is hard to understand the reality of a country whose citizens seemed to be going...
Five Years and Ten Months
I reached a new milestone this month. A minor one in the grand scheme of things, but one worthy of a few remarks nonetheless. This month marks my longest t...
Issue 86: Tracking Media Provenance, Digital Classroom Surveillance, Don’t Pixelate to Redact, Android In-App Advertising
I’ve deleted what I originally had here as newsletter-opening-banter. These are serious times. I think the world has radically changed overnight, and roughly...