As a Cog in the Election System: Reflections on My Role as a Precinct Election Official
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 democra...
Recent posts
Running an All-Online Conference with Zoom [post removed]
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 Interne...
With Gratitude for the NISO Ann Marie Cunningham Service Award
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, ...
Tethering a Ubiquity Network to a Mobile Hotspot
I saw it happen. <figcaption>The cable-chewing device</figcaption> The contractor in the neighbor’s back yard ...
Managing Remote Conference Presenters with Zoom
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-per...
What is known about GetFTR at the end of 2019
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...
Publishers going-it-alone (for now?) with GetFTR
In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short. I read about this first in Roger Schonfeld’s “Publishers...
Reflections on “Responsibilities of Citizenship for Immigrants and our Daughter”
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 S...
Engaging with Open Source Technologies
These are the presentation notes for the Engaging with Open Source Technologies presentation during the Open Source Publishing Technologies: Current Status a...
Ensuring System Interoperability: Readers and Ebooks — A NISO/BISG Forum
These are the presentation notes for the Ensuring System Interoperability presentation during the Readers and Ebooks: Making The Connection during the NISO/B...
Proxying FeedBurner MyBrand for HTTPS with CloudFront and Lambda at Edge
So I’m paying more attention to the DLTJ blog now, and one of the things I quickly noticed is that the Atom syndication feed was broken. Or, at least modern ...
DLTJ in another #NEWWWYEAR
Well, we have reached the end of another arbitrary orbit around our small unregarded yellow sun1, and this primitive ape-descended life form2 is looking back...