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...
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Issue 93: Chat-bots Powered by Artificial Intelligence
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...
LIBnft: a Project in Search of a Purpose
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...
Issue 92: Privacy Stories From 2014 Still Echo Today
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...
Mastodon Instance Operators Report on the Impact of the #TwitterMigration
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...
Issue 91: Bibliographic Records and Mastodon Migration
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...
With Mastodon on the Rise, Who Archives the Digital Public Square?
DALL*E prompt: photorealistic waves of twitter logos and mastodon logos crashing onto a sandy beach Much has been made ab...
OCLC v. Clarivate: What was MetaDoor? What is an OCLC Record?
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...
Automatically Generating Podcast Transcripts
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...
Trip Report: NISO Plus Forum 2022
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...
Issue 90: When Machine Learning Goes Wrong
The People of Ukraine are not forgotten. The Tufts University newspaper published an article this week about a multinational effort to preserve the digital ...
Issue 89: Ukraine’s Libraries, Russia’s Internet, and the Big Deal
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...