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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Thursday Threads: Man Photocopies Ebook, Google AutoAwesomes Photos, Librarians Called to HTTPS

    In this week's threads: a protest -- or maybe just an art project -- by a reader who saves his e-book copy of Orwell's 1984 by photocopying each page from his Kindle, the "AutoAwesome" nature of artificial intelligence, and a call to action for libraries to implement encryption on their websites.

    Feel …

     Posted on  May 28, 2015
     and last updated May 28, 2015
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Google Maps is Good, DRM is Bad, and Two-factor Authentication can be Ugly

    Black and white photo of four men in suits examine a tabletop map in an office setting, with additional maps displayed on the wall behind them.

    Looking at maps, Eastern Carolina University Digital Collections.

    Three threads this week: how mapping technologies have come such a long way in the past few years, and why explaining digital rights management is bad for your sanity, a cautionary tale for those trying to be more conscious about security their …

     Posted on  December 18, 2014
     and last updated December 18, 2014
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Password Managers, DRM coming to the Browser, Personal Data Brokers

    It is a security/privacy edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads this week. First a link to a 3-page PDF that talks about the use of password managers to keep all of your internet passwords unique and strong. Next a story about how the W3C standards body is looking at standardizing …

     Posted on  October 10, 2013
     and last updated October 10, 2013
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Unglue.It -- a service to crowdsource book licensing fees -- launches

    You could say "this is a service to watch" but that would be missing the point. Yesterday the 'Unglue.It' service launched as a way to crowdsource the funding of a fee to authors to release their own works under a Creative Commons license. [caption id="p3675-tweet" align="alignright" width …

     Posted on  May 18, 2012
     and last updated May 18, 2012
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Open Source Advocates Twitch at Blackboard's Strategy and Effect of Copyright/DRM on Access

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    Thursday Threads has been a back-burner activity for quite a while now. Blame it on too many interesting things happening at home and at work (to say nothing of the early arrival of spring weather). This week will be …

     Posted on  April 05, 2012
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Beyond MARC, Library-controlled DRM, Spam Study

    Threads this week without commentary. (It has been a long week that included only one flight of four that actually happened without a delay, cancellation, or redirection.) Big announcements are one from the Library of Congress to re-envision the way bibliographic information travels, one from Douglas County (Colorado) Library's experiment …

     Posted on  May 26, 2011
     and last updated May 27, 2011
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: HarperCollins (again), Digital Public Library of America, Kindle Millionaires

    Last week's DLTJ Thursday Threads theme of ebooks continues again this week, and the top story from last week is the top story again this week: the debate over the limited checkout ebooks terms set by HarperCollins. While there seems to be nothing new from either HarperCollins or OverDrive (except …

     Posted on  March 09, 2011
     and last updated March 10, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Personal Book Digitizer, Status of Book Piracy, Core Elements of Description

    It wasn't too long ago that the music industry was in an uproar about stories of how easy it was to copy digital audio files and make digital copies with high fidelity. It was predicted that we would see the same thing in other media forms, and this week's DLTJ …

     Posted on  January 20, 2011
     and last updated January 20, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Unprotected Social Media Sites, Value of Free, and Real Life Net Neutrality

    This week's Thursday Threads looks at a big hole in the security model of most internet sites that require you to log into them with a username and password plus a pair of stories about "big media" battles.

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     Posted on  October 28, 2010
     and last updated October 28, 2010
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Disruption in Publishing

    Last week's Chronicle of Higher Education Review had an opinion piece by Kate Wittenberg, director of EPIC (Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia) with the title "Beyond Google: What Next for Publishing?" (subscription required). An excerpt from the beginning:

    While we have been busy attending conferences, workshops, and seminars on every …

     Posted on  June 19, 2006
     and last updated June 20, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Librarians as Gatekeepers

    The plenary session of JCDL this morning was Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law School and University of Oxford) entitled "Open Information: Redaction, Restriction, and Removal." This was so good that I couldn't stand to stop and take notes. I did write down one bit: "Libraries are the best hope...for the …

     Posted on  June 13, 2006
     and last updated June 13, 2006