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 …
Earlier this week, NISO held its one-day NISO Plus Forum for 2022.
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 …
The People Have Spoken
On a whim, last Thursday I put out a poll with the announcement of last week's issue.
Out of the three threads, controlled digital lending, gamers and NFTs, and cats, the winner was cats.
The sample size was small—five votes—so I'm not ready to …
I was introduced to structured logs at work, and this ol' hacker thinks that is a darn good idea.
For a new program I'm writing, I wanted to put that into use.
The program uses AWS Lambdas, and the log entries for the Lambdas end up in CloudWatch Logs.
Unfortunately …
Welcome to issue 80 of Thursday Threads.
I'm so happy many of you chose to stick around and greetings to all of the new subscribers.
To those that received my email last Thursday giving you a heads-up that a new issue would be coming to your inbox but then didn't …
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