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 isn't playing fair...someone forwarded the newsletter back to me, and when I replied that person said the view of the newsletter in the …
A number of Mastodon operators have started to report the impact of the #TwitterMigration on their instances.
I started gathering these because I was curious about what it takes to run a public or semi-public Mastodon instance.
These reports are full of those kinds of details, but they also describe …
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 spiraling (maybe a death-spiral...can't be too sure), and (in the U.S.) a whopper of a mid-term election season.
All is well here in …
DALL*E prompt: photorealistic waves of twitter logos and mastodon logos crashing onto a sandy beach
Much has been made about the differences between Twitter and Mastodon: the challenge of finding a home for your account (and the corresponding differences between your “local” timeline and your “global” timeline), the intentional …
On November 7, 2022, OCLC and Clarivate announced a settlement in their lawsuit about using WorldCat records in the embryonic MetaDoor service.
This ended the latest chapter in the saga of reuse of library metadata with little new clarity.
The settlement terms were not disclosed, but we can learn a …
I'm finding it valuable to create annotations on resources to index into my personal knowledge management system.
(The Obsidian journaling post from late last year goes into some depth about my process.)
I use the Hypothesis service to do this—Hypothesis annotations are imported into Markdown files for Obsidian using …
This was an in-person meeting that is intended to feed into the online conference in February 2023.
Around 100 people from NISO's membership groups—libraries, content providers, and service providers—attended to talk about metadata.
The meeting was …
The People of Ukraine are not forgotten.
The Tufts University newspaper published an article this week about a multinational effort to preserve the digital and digitized cultural heritage of the country.
On the other side of the war, Russian citizens are downloading Wikipedia out of fear of more drastic network …
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 people stepping up to meet their community's needs, and those who have lost their lives in the Russian war.
What a strange article title to type: Sanctioning Governments on the Internet.
What does that even mean?
Who would decide?
Who would implement the decision?
To say nothing of the consequences of trying to impose an Internet Sanction on a government or a country.
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 top of a grand reading room with dark wood shelves and neat rows of books would help us remember that a significant part of our …
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 about normal lives just a short time ago.
I find it also hard to know what to say to people whose …
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 tenure with an employer at five years and 10 months.
I've now worked at Index Data longer than I had at …
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 7.9 billion of us are not in positions to do anything about it. To those that are in positions to do something about it and to …
The invoice is in.
This reengineered blog and the reinvigorated Thursday Threads newsletter cost just US$2.51 last month.
All of that cost is in the blog construction and delivery.
The cost of delivering the newsletter alone falls well below AWS' always-free tiers of service.
Not bad!
And as …
In the past few months, I've created about a half-dozen projects using "serverless" infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
(And I'm about to start another one.)
Over the course of these projects, I've refined my development environment into something that I think is useful to share, so read on for …
Greetings from the wintery mix that is central Ohio.
The local school district called off school yesterday afternoon in preparation for what came today.
Also yesterday: Ohio's own "Buckeye Chuck" predicted an early spring.
Let's be grateful for snow days (and teenagers who shovel snow) and for predictions of early …
Posted onand last updated October 05, 2022· 5 minutes reading time