Backing Away from Twitter in Measured Steps
My relationship with Twitter crossed a new line yesterday. As I posted on Mastodon (one, two): Have just deleted the Twitter app on mobile. Felt the need...
My relationship with Twitter crossed a new line yesterday. As I posted on Mastodon (one, two): Have just deleted the Twitter app on mobile. Felt the need...
This week we jump into the world of chat-bots driven by new artificial intelligence language models. The pace of announcements about general-purpose tools d...
At first, I thought this was a parody. LibNFT is an R&D initiative exploring the impact of blockchain and the digital asset economy on library arch...
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 is...
A number of Mastodon operators have started to report the impact of the #TwitterMigration on their instances. I started gathering these because I was curiou...
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 spir...
DALL*E prompt: photorealistic waves of twitter logos and mastodon logos crashing onto a sandy beach Much has been made ab...
On November 7, 2022, OCLC and Clarivate announced a settlement in their lawsuit about using WorldCat records in the embryonic MetaDoor service. This ended th...
I’m finding it valuable to create annotations on resources to index into my personal knowledge management system. (The Obsidian journaling post from late las...
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 onl...
The People of Ukraine are not forgotten. The Tufts University newspaper published an article this week about a multinational effort to preserve the digital ...
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 peop...