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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Thursday Threads: Developer Genders, Facebook Release Engineering, Alcohol Among Technologists

    You'll get the sense that this week's Thursday Threads is stacked towards cultural awareness. First is the view of a developer of the female gender in a room of peers at a meeting of the Digital Public Library of America. The second thread is a pointer to a story about …

     Posted on  April 12, 2012
     and last updated April 12, 2012
     ·  13 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Open Source Advocates Twitch at Blackboard's Strategy and Effect of Copyright/DRM on Access

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    Thursday Threads has been a back-burner activity for quite a while now. Blame it on too many interesting things happening at home and at work (to say nothing of the early arrival of spring weather). This week will be …

     Posted on  April 05, 2012
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Research Works Act, Amazon Kindle Give and Take, OCLC's Website for Small Libraries

    I've been away from DLTJ Thursday Threads for a while, but that doesn't mean the fun hasn't stopped. This week there are stories about the beginning and the end of the Research Works Act (again, one might add), Amazon's continuing shifts in the ebook marketplace, and an announcement of beta …

     Posted on  February 29, 2012
     and last updated March 01, 2012
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Learn to Code in 2012, Issues with Apple's iBooks Author, SOPA/PIPA Are Dead

    The internet has survived the great SOPA blackout, and we're still talking about the fallout. Apple made a major announcement of plans to support textbooks on iPads, but there are concerns about the implementation. But the first story this week is about a free service geared towards teaching people how …

     Posted on  January 26, 2012
     and last updated January 26, 2012
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: SOPA, PROTECT-IP, Research Works Act, and Broad E-Textbook Pilot

     Posted on  January 19, 2012
     and last updated January 19, 2012
  • Thursday Threads: Legal Implications of SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Learning from Best Buy, Open Source in Medicine

    Welcome to the new year! Threads this week include a brief analysis of the legal problems in store if SOPA and PROTECT-IP become law, what an analysis of the problems with Best Buy might teach libraries, and why open source licensing of clinical tools is important.

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     Posted on  January 05, 2012
     and last updated January 05, 2012
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Looking Backwards and Looking Forwards

    As the last DLTJ Thursday Threads of the year, the stories in this post look back to what we saw in 2011 and look forward to what we may see in 2012. Looking backwards is a list of five things we learned about publishing from O'Reilly Media and Google's 3-minute …

     Posted on  December 29, 2011
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: SOPA Suspended, Lending Chromebooks, OCLC Introduces WorldShare

    This is the just-in-time-for-the-holidays edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee suspended work on SOPA, and there was much relief from the technology community. The Palo Alto Public Library announced plans to lend Chromebooks (laptops with Google's cloud-based operating system) to patrons. And OCLC announced a …

     Posted on  December 22, 2011
     and last updated December 22, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Alternative to SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Costs of Resource Sharing, Communicating with IT Staff

    In this week's news we still have activity on legislation before the U.S. Congress on measures to protect intellectual property on the internet. This is serious stuff with serious people trying to make this go quietly into law. Well, it may not go quietly into law, but it has …

     Posted on  December 15, 2011
     and last updated December 15, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Thanksgiving Edition 2011 -- What I'm Thankful For

    With Thursday Threads coming on a Thanksgiving Thursday, it seems appropriate to use a theme of what I'm thankful for. So, in this edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads I'm offering three things: open source software, the internet, and public libraries. Reading this on Thanksgiving? Feel free to offer what you …

     Posted on  November 23, 2011
     and last updated November 24, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Consumer E-book Commitment, University Press Shorts, Improv Everwhere

    Two serious threads this week and one fun one. The first serious story is a look at the attitudes of e-book consumers from the Book Industry Study Group, including a finding that almost half of all e-book consumers would wait for an electronic edition up to three months after the …

     Posted on  November 17, 2011
     and last updated November 17, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Library Linked Data, Shifts in Publishing, Questions for Software Migrations, Hypothes.is Announcement

    In this weeks thread of topics: the final report of library linked data, an interview with one of the executives of Wiley Publishing, important questions to ask when considering major system migrations, and the announcement of work to begin on a new comment and evaluation overlay layer for the web …

     Posted on  October 27, 2011
     and last updated October 27, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Infinite Virtual Bookshelf, Free Learning Management System, List of Cyber Threats

    Part experimental, part disruption, and part heads-up in this week's edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads. The first story is a proof-of-concept demonstration of a way to browse an "infinite" bookshelf of virtual items. Next is the announcement of how a content producer (Pearson) is trying to disrupt a deeply embedded …

     Posted on  October 20, 2011
     and last updated October 21, 2011
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Disruptive Innovation and the Amazon Kindle Fire

    Today's DLTJ Thursday Threads looks at the potential for the Amazon Kindle Fire to disrupt the tablet market as we know it now. First is a link to an eight minute video by Clayton Christensen in which he describes his theory of disruptive innovation. Then there is pointer to an …

     Posted on  October 06, 2011
     and last updated October 07, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Kindle Ebook Lending, Google Ngram Viewer, Collaborative Open Source Development

    This week brought news of the Kindle-based e-book lending program through Overdrive, and Peter Brantley has an opinion piece on what this means for Amazon, publishers, and even libraries. From the other e-book powerhouse -- Google -- is a TED talk presentation about the Google Books ngram Viewer. Finally, there is a …

     Posted on  September 29, 2011
     and last updated September 29, 2011
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Authors Guild Sues Hathi Trust, Libraries Learn from Blockbuster, Publisher's View of Self-Publishing

    Legal action against the digitization and limited distribution of orphan works unexpectedly hit the news again this week. This week's DLTJ Thursday Threads starts with an overview of the lawsuit filed by authors organizations and authors against Hathi Trust over plans to make digital versions of orphan works available to …

     Posted on  September 15, 2011
     and last updated September 15, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Structured Data on the Web, Ebook Indexes, Amazon Disintermediates Publishers

    DLTJ Thursday Threads for two weeks in a row! I'm getting back in the groove. This week has pointers to geeky things (learning about structured data on the web) and not quite so geeky things (thoughts about indexes in ebooks and Amazon's tactics for end-to-end control of book publishing). Well …

     Posted on  September 08, 2011
     and last updated September 08, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Pro-Library Protest Song, How Google Improves it Search, Learning Programming Skills

    After a longer than intended hiatus, DLTJ Thursday Threads is back.

    Feel free to send this newsletter to others you think might be interested in the topics. If you are not already subscribed to DLTJ's Thursday Threads, visit the sign-up page. If you would like a more raw and immediate …

     Posted on  August 31, 2011
     and last updated August 31, 2011
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: History and How-To of Search, DPLA Update, Searching for Jim Gray

    Ahhhh -- with the annual meeting of the American Library Association out of the way and two major holidays (Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day) behind us, the summer can now start. My formal vacation comes next month, and I haven't yet decided what to do with DLTJ Thursday Threads …

     Posted on  July 07, 2011
     and last updated July 08, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Google's Social Strategy, Big Data, Patriot Act outside U.S., Frightening Copyright Revisited

    It might have been the week of the annual American Library Association meeting with all the news and announcements and programming that came from it -- as well as getting into the dog days of summer -- but interesting news at the intersection of technology and libraries did not take a pause …

     Posted on  June 30, 2011
     and last updated June 30, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time