Congressional Research Service Syndication Feed
One of the hidden gems of the Library of Congress is the Congressional Research Service (CRS). With a staff of about 600 researchers, analysts, and writers,...
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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...
Refactoring DLTJ, Winter 2021 Part 4: Thursday Threads Newsletter Launches
Success! Four parts plus a half (or a “re-do”” of part 2): Ramp up automation for adding reading sources to Obsidian Refactor the process of building ...
Refactoring DLTJ, Winter 2021 Part 3: ‘Serverless’ Newsletter System
So it has been quiet here for a couple of days. Rest assured: the quietness comes from heads-down work, not from giving up. Here are the refactor-DLTJ activi...
Refactoring DLTJ, Winter 2021 Part 2.5: Fixing the Webmentions Cache
Okay, a half-step backward to fix something I broke yesterday. As I described earlier this year, this static website blog uses the Webmention protocol to no...
Refactoring DLTJ, Winter 2021 Part 2: Adopt AWS Amplify
Look at that! Progress is being made down the list of to-dos for this blog in order to start the new year on a fresh footing. As you might recall from the ...
What EDUCAUSE’s 2022 Top 10 IT Issues Mean for Libraries
Last month, EDUCAUSE published its Top 10 IT Issues for 2022 with the subtitle “The Higher Education We Deserve”. To reach the top 10, EDUCAUSE members were ...
DLTJ Now Uses Webmention and Bridgy to Aggregate Social Media Commentary
When I converted this blog from WordPress to a static site generated with Jekyll in 2018, I lost the ability for readers to make comments. At the time, I th...
Proxying FeedBurner MyBrand for HTTPS with CloudFront and Lambda at Edge
So I’m paying more attention to the DLTJ blog now, and one of the things I quickly noticed is that the Atom syndication feed was broken. Or, at least modern ...
DLTJ in another #NEWWWYEAR
Well, we have reached the end of another arbitrary orbit around our small unregarded yellow sun1, and this primitive ape-descended life form2 is looking back...
DLTJ in a #NEWWWYEAR
I came across Jen Simmon's call for a #newwwyear by way of Eric Meyer: Ok, here’s the deal. Tweet your personal website plan with the hashtag #newwwye...
Defending Net Neutrality. Again.
I'm bringing this blog out of dormancy to add my voice to the chorus of people defending net neutrality. It isn't the first time; we've been here before whe...
RA21: A new effort to ease the user experience for off-campus access to licensed content
Earlier this year the STM Association -- a trade association for academic and professional publishers -- started a project called RA21: Resource Access in th...
Free Software in Libraries, success stories and their impact on the library today
Today I was privileged to present to the 6th International Congress of Technological Innovation, Innovatics 2016, organized by Duoc UC Libraries, Library of ...
Changes to “Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church” Wikipedia Page, Visualized
Edited after initial publication to add: My thoughts are with the people in and around Charleston, South Carolina, this evening. What is making it out o...
From NISO: Invitation to NISO Patron Privacy Virtual Meetings
This article has been translated into Polish. Over the next couple months, NISO is managing a project to "develop a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Pri...
In Memory of Miss Rebecca Alison Meyer #663399Becca
On Saturday, at six years, eleven and a half hours old, Rebecca Meyer -- a spark of joy to her parents, siblings, friends, and people she never met -- died a...
Code4Lib Journal Issue #20 Published; My Editorial: “It is Volunteers All the Way Down…”
Issue #20 of the Code4Lib Journal was just published, and I had the honor of being the coordinating editor for the issue. Being on the editorial committee o...
What You’ll Find in My Twitter Stream
Earlier this month I found myself apologizing for some errant tweets that ended up in my Twitter stream ((The problem turned out to be a forgotten automatic ...
Kids Birthday Parties in Libraries?
Do public libraries host birthday parties for children as part of their programming? I was with my son at a party for one of his friends a local bouncy infl...
Unglue.It – a service to crowdsource book licensing fees – launches
You could say "this is a service to watch" but that would be missing the point. Yesterday the 'Unglue.It' service launched as a way to crowdsource the fundi...
Setting Aside Time for Writing
It is time for New Year's Resolutions, and the new habit I aim to pick up is setting aside some serious, concentrated chunks of time for writing each day. I...
What Happens When History Fights Back – A Review of “11/22/63: A Novel” by Stephen King
[openbook booknumber="OLID:OL24906649M"] Pluck a string and it vibrates. As it vibrates there are points along the string where it is absolutely still. Plu...
Campaign Contributions and Judiciary Committee Votes on SOPA (and a Plug for Rootstrikers)
I've been keeping an eye on the House Judiciary Committee markup session for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that have happened over the past two days alon...
In Opposition to the PROTECT IP Act (Also)
Earlier this month there was an amazing groundswell of opposition to SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. I participated in a 1-day anticensorship campaign d...
In Opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act
This blog will be participating in the American Censorship Day awareness campaign on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 to show opposition to the Stop Online Pir...
E-mail Phishing Attempts Get Trickier: Fake bounced mail and Fake mail-from-scanner
Two phishing ((I think these would be classified as spear phishing as defined by Webopedia: "A type of phishing attack that focuses on a single user or depa...
Free Stanford AI Class is a “Beta” for a Commercial Launch?
When Stanford University's School of Engineering announced its free <a href="http://www.ai-class.com/" data-versiondate="2011-09-05"title="Introduction to...
My O’Reilly Wish List
O'Reilly Media -- my favorite technology publisher -- is offering a contest in which they are giving away $500 worth of books from their catalog. To enter, ...
First Bill for DLTJ Hosting on Amazon Web Services
I just got the bill for the first month of hosting this blog on Amazon Web Services. The total for the month was $23.60, and includes: data transfer charge...
DLTJ In a State of Flux
DLTJ is in a bit of flux now. After updating some underlying packages on my 9-year-old Gentoo-based personal server, I'm finding that I can't start the web ...
Attempting to Run Comments without reCAPTCHA
I'm trying an experiment over the next couple days/weeks. I'm turning off the reCAPTCHA requirement for blog commenters (the figure-out-these-words-and-type...
“Do More … With Someone Else” – Guest Editor Introduction to NISO ISQ Fall Issue
I'm pleased to announce that the Fall 2010 issue of NISO's International Standards Quarterly (ISQ) is done and available online to NISO members and ISQ subsc...
Protect Your Keyboards, Mice and Cables from Theft with a Flat Washer
You are using lockdown security cables to protect your PCs, but your accessories -- keyboards, mice, and other cables -- are still vulnerable to theft. You ...
Charleston, SC Visitor’s Center A/V Display
First, sorry about this getting posted prematurely through the DLTJ blog. I was trying the post-from-Flickr function, and it was telling me that the postin...
From Joshua Kim, Ideas for Working with Vendors
Joshua Kim, senior learning technologist and an adjunct in sociology at Dartmouth College, recently had a series of posts about working with software vendors...
“Mash-Up” Term is Over 150 Years Old!
Ron Murray, a colleague at the Library of Congress (and no known relation to me), sent me a note about the history of the term "mash-up" in the Oxford Englis...
Creative Blog Spam
I have to give the creator of the blog spam below points for trying. This is what I found in my WordPress spam queue this morning, embedded here as an image...
On Being Fodder for Questionable Twitter Posts
Okay, I know this is starting to seem like an obsession, but I can’t figure out why someone(s) would be constructing tweets that consist of my blog post head...
Why I Need Twitter Distillation Tools
The following may not be news to those who regularly hang out in Twitter-land, but the extent of the problem recently became clear to me: there is a bunch o...
OhioLINK Has Moved!
My place of work has moved to office space in downtown Columbus. If you have saved contact information for me, please update it. Those connected to me via ...
Some Navel-Gazing: A Meta-Post about DLTJ
I usually don't post about the act of blogging itself (I wonder how many middle-aged blogs have a similar post), but the confluence of a couple of things cau...
Administrative Note – Feeds Moved on FeedBurner
DLTJ uses the FeedBurner service to enhance its syndication feeds and gather statistics on readers. Several years ago, Google acquired FeedBurner and recent...
Consolidating Travel Details with TripIt
I'm sitting in the Denver airport (and quite pleased to have remembered my note to myself about tunneling through ad-laden interception proxy) with lots to t...
Midwinter Travel Tip: Flying United? Checking Luggage? Save $3!
United Airlines, along with many other carriers, has instituted a policy of charging for checked luggage. For United, the first bag is $15 and subsequent ba...
Central Ohio E-Waste Drop-off Locations
As part of our winter holiday activities, our family has been busily clearing out the basement to set up a play area for the kids. In doing so, we created a...
What Makes Google Tick? A Pointer to an Analysis
Why does Google do what it does? A report by the faberNovel management consulting firm describes Google's "key success factors" and how it goes about achiev...
Clay Shirky on the Need for Better Information Filters
Last month, Clay Shirky gave a presentation with the title "It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure" at the Web 2.0 Expo. ((Web 2.0 Expo, co-pro...
The Jester Joins Twitter
It was only a few months ago that I was teasing Dan Chudnov for joining Twitter. Now I've gone and done it myself. I don't expect to be using it much, but ...
DLTJ Updated to WordPress 2.5
Unlike previous upgrades, this left some functionality broken -- notably some of the links in the second block under the "about" heading to the left (if you ...
SSL for WordPress Admin and the Problem with XMLHttpRequest
Note! The updates to SSL handling in WordPress version 2.6 handle the problem of SSL-encrypted admin sessions in a much less hackish sort of way. It doesn'...
DLTJ the Target of Real Dead-Tree Junk Mail
Dorothea Salo started a conversation late last year that was picked up by Walt Crawford and others about receiving unsolicited "PR spam" with the expectation...
DLTJ Updated, Readers Yawn
At least I hope that is the correct headline. I've been having some problems with this installation of WordPress lately -- in particular, I could no longer ...
Pointless E-mail Disclaimers
I’ve been collecting disclaimers that appear on the bottom of e-mail messages in a draft post on DLTJ for about a year now – every time I’d get a new one wit...
Feeling the Holiday Spirit? Check With Your Lawyers To See if it is Okay
You may have given away your right to feel the holiday spirit via some click-through license dreamed up by an over-exuberant lawyer. Don't believe me? Anyt...
NISO IR Presentation: “The Third Wave of Library Information Stewardship”
On Monday, I had the honor and pleasure of speaking at the NISO workshop "Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional Repository" on the topic of The Third Wa...
Pointless Mid-Week, Mid-Morning Fun
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DLTJ now Running on WordPress 2.3
Last night DLTJ was upgraded to WordPress 2.3. As far as I can tell, everything is working okay, but please let me know in the comments or the comment form ...
Call for Participation in Meredith Wolfwater’s Biblioblogosphere Survey
Meredith Farkas is conducting a survey of those in the library and information science profession who blog: After two years [since completing the first Surve...
DLTJ Now Uses reCAPTCHA
DLTJ now uses reCAPTCHA on comment forms. reCAPTCHA is an enhanced version of CAPTCHA (an acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell compu...
How US Airways Became My Airline-of-Last-Resort (And Why You Should Never Fly With Them, Too)
I will never fly U.S. Airways again, if I have a choice. A competing airline's ticket is going to have to be substantially more expensive for me to even con...
Where Do I Fit? Pew Thinks I’m a “Connector”
So here is my role on the internet — a Connector: "Connectors combine a sense that information technology is good for social purposes with a clear rec...
What Do DLTJ and BlogHer Have In Common? Only Google Knows
With idle curiosity, I was poking around with what Google knows about DLTJ. Perhaps the most interesting piece was the company Google thinks I keep (found ...
DLTJ Now Running on Wordpress 2.1
DLTJ was upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 tonight. Everything looks good so far; please let me know if you disagree...
Can You Hear Me Now? DLTJ as a Podcast
Update 19-Jan-2011: I've decommissioned this service. Talkr seems to be unavailable, and I haven't had time to find a replacement. If reading the thoughts o...
Resource for Improving Higher Education Instruction
A few months back I referred to a project that used video to present information about accessibility needs in the classroom. That article was about how diff...
Do I Want to be a Warrior in ALA’s Battle?
Today I received an e-mail from ALA asking me to renew my membership. An excerpt of the e-mail is included below. There is a confrontational tone in the me...
Killing Off Runaway Apache Processes
Well, something is still going wrong on dltj.org — despite previous performance tuning efforts, I'm still running into cases where machine performance ...
WordPress/MySQL Tuning
dltj.org runs on a relatively tiny box — a Pentium III with 512MB of RAM. I'm running a Gentoo Linux distribution, so I actually have a prayer of gett...
DLTJ is Registered with the Academic Blog Portal; Are You?
DLTJ is now listed...how about your blog? Calling All Academic Librarian Bloggers A few months ago I came across a just developing project of Henry Farrell, ...
Taking a Day’s Break from SOA
No Service Oriented Architecture posting today, but here is a glimpse of the topic of the next one -- the title is: "Web Services: A means to a Service Orie...
Possible Resolution to Technorati Update Problem
Up until about an hour ago, Technorati refused to update its database of postings to DLTJ, and having reached the 31-day point of no updates I was starting t...
Modifications to FreePress Recent Comments Plugin
For others that may find it useful, I've made two modifications to the FreePress Recent Coments plugin on DLTJ: one to strip out quoted material when using ...
DLTJ under a New Theme
Okay -- let's try this again. The first time around didn't go so well, so I went back to the basics and started with a new theme: what is running on DLTJ n...
DLTJ page rendering updated (sorry Bloglines users)
Overnight I made several changes to the layout and rendering of pages on DLTJ -- both in its web presentation and in its RSS presentation. The changes were ...
Minutes of the FEDORA Workflow Working Group meeting of 18-Jun-2006
Please note -- this is a copy of the FEDORA Workflow Working Group minutes from the FEDORA Wiki. It is being posted here in order to get it into the blogos...
For the record, I did attend JCDL2006
If you look along the right-most row in this picture, about midway vertically in the shot, you can see someone in a cream-colored shirt with an Apple lap...
JCDL2006 Monday Brain Dump
JCDL is ranking high one of the most useful (and when not useful one of the most interesting) meetings I've attended. This is my first time here, and althou...
Jester Site Was Broken; Fixed Now
An attempt to upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.3 a few days ago resulted in the Wordpress installation being blown away. It is hard to tell whether it was my fault ...
“Have you seen AccessMyLibrary?”
I got a note recently from a colleague with the subject "Have you seen AccessMyLibrary?": This is a Thomson Gale new thing: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/...
Updated Disruption in Libraries Bibliography; New Location
I've moved the bibliography of the theory of disruptive innovation as applied to libraries and higher education to a new location. If you are reading this p...