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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: Legal Implications of SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Learning from Best Buy, Open Source in Medicine

    Welcome to the new year! Threads this week include a brief analysis of the legal problems in store if SOPA and PROTECT-IP become law, what an analysis of the problems with Best Buy might teach libraries, and why open source licensing of clinical tools is important.

    Feel free to send …

     Posted on  January 05, 2012
     and last updated January 05, 2012
     ·  5 minutes reading time

  • Thursday Threads: Print-on-Demand, Video Changing the World, Puzzling Out Public Domain, and more

    I'm starting something new on DLTJ: Thursday Threads -- summaries and pointers of stories, services, and other stuff that I found interesting in the previous seven days. This is culled from entries that I post to my FriendFeed lifestream through various channels (Google Reader shared items, citations shared in Zotero, Twitter …

     Posted on  September 30, 2010
     and last updated October 01, 2010
     ·  5 minutes reading time

  • On the Internet, How Do You Know If You Are Talking to a Dog?

    Published in The New Yorker July 5, 1993.
    Image from The Cartoon Bank

    The famous 1993 cartoon from The New Yorker has the caption “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The question at the moment is: when you're on the internet, how do you know you are …

     Posted on  July 15, 2008
     and last updated July 16, 2008
     ·  8 minutes reading time