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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • Issue 112: Odds and Ends in Social Media Research

    This thread of articles reviews social media's role in spreading misinformation and impacting teen mental health, highlighting personal strategies for prevention and a review of how “Community Notes” do and don't help.

     Posted on  March 20, 2025
     ·  10 minutes reading time
  • Issue 105: Facial Recognition

    In this week's Thursday Threads, I'll point to articles on the contentious subject of facial recognition technology. This tech, currently used by law enforcement and various businesses around the world, raises critical ethical and privacy questions. Beyond the instances where facial recognition use has resulted in wrongful apprehensions by law …

     Posted on  January 30, 2025
     ·  12 minutes reading time
  • Issue 79: Educational Technology Futures, Social Media Legislation, Apollo 11 Launch at 50

    Welcome to the re-inaugural issue of DLTJ Thursday Threads. Counting backward, there were 78 previous issues (all by the most recent still need to be converted from the old WordPress style of formatting) with—all told—several hundred references and commentary. Here at the start of 2022, I'm making a …

     Posted on  January 06, 2022
     and last updated January 06, 2022
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Fake Social Media, Netflix is Huge, Secret TPP is Bad

    In this week's Thursday Threads we look at the rise of fake social media influence, how a young media company (Netflix) is now bigger than an old media company (CBS), and a reminder of how secrecy in constructing trade agreements is a bad idea.

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     Posted on  April 23, 2015
     and last updated April 23, 2015
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: All about online privacy, or lack thereof

    Are you paranoid yet? Are you worried that the secret you shared anonymously might come right back to you? Or wondering why advertisements seem to follow you around from web page to web page? Or just creeped out by internet-enabled services tracking your every move? Or angry that mobile carriers …

     Posted on  December 11, 2014
     and last updated December 11, 2014
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • What You'll Find in My Twitter Stream

    Earlier this month I found myself apologizing for some errant tweets that ended up in my Twitter stream ((The problem turned out to be a forgotten automatic posting of blog posts into Delicious. When I was cleaning up links in posts using, these post changes were being added as new …

     Posted on  September 29, 2012
     and last updated September 30, 2012
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Google's Social Strategy, Big Data, Patriot Act outside U.S., Frightening Copyright Revisited

    It might have been the week of the annual American Library Association meeting with all the news and announcements and programming that came from it -- as well as getting into the dog days of summer -- but interesting news at the intersection of technology and libraries did not take a pause …

     Posted on  June 30, 2011
     and last updated June 30, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Shared Twitter Updates Done Right: The Case of NPRTechTeam

    Image capture of NPR Tech Team Twitter account.
    Image capture of NPR Tech Team Twitter account.
    All day today, the staff at NPR's Digital Media team have been preparing to launch a new version of their website, and we've been able to follow along via tweets on the NPRTechTeam Twitter account. It looks like it was a marathon …

     Posted on  July 26, 2009
     and last updated July 27, 2009
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • On the Pitfalls of Social Media: Learning from Clinical Reader

    As a youth I remember intently studying the troubles of others -- what they did when they got into trouble and how they got out of it. If the saying "You Learn From Your Mistakes" was so true, I wanted to be able to learn from the mistakes of others. I …

     Posted on  July 19, 2009
     and last updated July 20, 2009
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • On the Pitfalls of Social Media: The Case of Clinical Reader

    As libraries feel the need to join the social media landscape to meet a segment of their user population already there, it is useful to step back and get acclimated. There is a pace of information flow that is unlike anything else in the physical world, and a minor incident …

     Posted on  July 19, 2009
     and last updated July 20, 2009
     ·  30 minutes reading time