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...
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...
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...
Cecil Mae Feather, 1929–2023 This issue is offered in honor of Cecil Mae Thornburg Feather, my mother-in-law. Cecil Mae w...
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 ...
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. The Confessions of St. Augustine. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931, page 267. Translation...
The hot technology in the news now is chatbots driven by artificial intelligence. (This specific field of artificial intelligence is “large language models”...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...