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 activities so far:
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 notify others when I link to their content and receive notifications from others.
Behind the scenes, I'm using the Jekyll plugin called jekyll-webmention_io to integrate …
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 last blog post, I set out to do some upgrades across the calendar year boundary:
As 2021 comes to a close, I've been thinking about this blog and my own "personal knowledge management" tools.
It is time for some upgrades to both.
The next few posts will be about the changes I'm making over this winter break.
Right now I think the updating will look …
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 asked to prioritize 17 issues identified by the EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel members.
The members of the Issue Panel then broke up into …
Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) editor here. Becky Yoose's Twitter thread has stirred up a great deal of attention to an article published yesterday. This post has my own thoughts on the issue...published on Twitter to match Becky's medium and here on my blog for posterity.
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 thought that one day I would set up an installation of Discourse for comments like Boing Boing did in 2013.
But …
Bryan Brown's tweet led me to Ruth Kitchin Tillman's Repository Ouroboros post about the treadmill of software development/deployment.
And wow do I have thoughts and feelings.
Ouroboros: an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Or—in this context—constantly chasing what you can never …
It 'tis the season for graduations, and this year my nephew is graduating from high school.
My sister-in-law created a memory book—"a surprise Book of Advice as he moves to the next phase of his life."
What an interesting opportunity to reflect!
This is what I came up with …
Over the weekend, I posted an article here about pre-recording conference talks and sent a tweet about the idea on Monday.
I hoped to generate discussion about recording talks to fill in gaps—positive and negative—about the concept, and I was not disappointed.
I'm particularly thankful to Lisa Janicke …
The Code4Lib conference was last week. That meeting used all pre-recorded talks, and we saw the benefits of pre-recording for attendees, presenters, and conference organizers.
Should all talks be pre-recorded, even when we are back face-to-face?
Note! After I posted a link to this article on Twitter, there was a …
I may nod off several times in composing this post the day after election day.
Hopefully, in reading it, you won't.
It is a story about one corner of democracy.
It is a journal entry about how it felt to be a citizen doing what I could do to make …
This is an article draft that was accidentally published.
I hope to work on a final version soon.
If you really want to see it, I saved a copy on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
During the inaugural NISO Plus meeting at the end of February, I was surprised and proud to receive the Ann Marie Cunningham Service award.
Todd Carpenter, NISO’s executive director, let me know by tweet as I was not able to attend the conference.
Pictured in that tweet is my …
I saw it happen.
The cable-chewing device
The contractor in the neighbor's back yard with the Ditch Witch trencher burying a cable.
I was working outside at the patio table and just about to go into a Zoom meeting.
Then the internet dropped out.
Suddenly, and with a wrenching feeling …
Bringing remote presenters into a face-to-face conference is challenging and fraught with peril.
In this post, I describe a scheme using Zoom that had in-person attendees forgetting that the presenter was remote!
In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short.
There was a heck of a response on social media, and the response was—on the whole—not positive from my librarian-dominated corner of Twitter.
For my early take on GetFTR, see my December 3rd blog …
Eighteen years ago, on Friday, September 7th, 2001, I was honored to be asked to participate in a naturalization ceremony for 46 new citizens of the United States in a courtroom of Judge Alvin Thompson in Hartford, Connecticut.
I published those remarks on a website that has long since gone …
