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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: 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
  • Tweaking the New FriendFeed Interface

    FriendFeed went live yesterday with changes to the user interface and back-end systems. The changes were moderately positive, taken as a whole, but there are aspects of the new user interface that I don't like -- the color scheme, the removal of the service icons, and the (over)-use of whitespace …

     Posted on  April 30, 2009
     and last updated April 30, 2009
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Results of JPEG2000 Activity in the Google Summer of Code 2007

    Earlier this year I posted a summary of planned JPEG2000 activity in the Google Summer of Code. As you may recall, there were two project: one mentored by the Mozilla Foundation and another by FFmpeg. This post is a summary of the results of the efforts of the GSoC students …

     Posted on  October 22, 2007
     and last updated October 22, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • JPEG2000 Activity in the Google Summer of Code

    OhioLINK is not participating in the Google Summer of Code this year (too many other things going on for our staff to be effective mentors), which is why it is refreshing to see work on the wider adoption of JPEG2000 — one of our core goals — continue on other fronts. Among …

     Posted on  April 16, 2007
     and last updated April 16, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time