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. Trans...
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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...
LIBnft: a Project in Search of a Purpose
At first, I thought this was a parody. LibNFT is an R&D initiative exploring the impact of blockchain and the digital asset economy on library arch...
Issue 92: Privacy Stories From 2014 Still Echo Today
Back again. Thanks for the comments on the return of the newsletter. I’ve heard that Microsoft Outlook isn’t playing nice with my email theme. (It also is...
Mastodon Instance Operators Report on the Impact of the #TwitterMigration
A number of Mastodon operators have started to report the impact of the #TwitterMigration on their instances. I started gathering these because I was curiou...
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...