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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: Learn to Code in 2012, Issues with Apple's iBooks Author, SOPA/PIPA Are Dead

    The internet has survived the great SOPA blackout, and we're still talking about the fallout. Apple made a major announcement of plans to support textbooks on iPads, but there are concerns about the implementation. But the first story this week is about a free service geared towards teaching people how …

     Posted on  January 26, 2012
     and last updated January 26, 2012
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: SOPA, PROTECT-IP, Research Works Act, and Broad E-Textbook Pilot

     Posted on  January 19, 2012
     and last updated January 19, 2012
  • The Best of the "SOPA Blackout"

    Commentary, intentional and unintentional humor, and media from January 18, 2012.

    http://storify.com/datag/the-best-of-the-sopa-blackout-1

     Posted on  January 18, 2012
     and last updated January 19, 2012
  • Stop SOPA and Protect-IP

    This blog will be present first-time users with a warning page on January 18, 2012 -- the day that many internet sites are using to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) -- and January 23rd, 2012 -- the day before the U.S. Senate may vote on the PROTECT-IP act. DLTJ is …

     Posted on  January 18, 2012
     and last updated January 18, 2012
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • 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: SOPA Suspended, Lending Chromebooks, OCLC Introduces WorldShare

    This is the just-in-time-for-the-holidays edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee suspended work on SOPA, and there was much relief from the technology community. The Palo Alto Public Library announced plans to lend Chromebooks (laptops with Google's cloud-based operating system) to patrons. And OCLC announced a …

     Posted on  December 22, 2011
     and last updated December 22, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Campaign Contributions and Judiciary Committee Votes on SOPA (and a Plug for Rootstrikers)

    I've been keeping an eye on the House Judiciary Committee markup session for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that have happened over the past two days along with the tweets that have been going out in reaction to the proceedings. One of the running threads in the commentary has …

     Posted on  December 16, 2011
     and last updated December 17, 2011
     ·  11 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Alternative to SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Costs of Resource Sharing, Communicating with IT Staff

    In this week's news we still have activity on legislation before the U.S. Congress on measures to protect intellectual property on the internet. This is serious stuff with serious people trying to make this go quietly into law. Well, it may not go quietly into law, but it has …

     Posted on  December 15, 2011
     and last updated December 15, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • In Opposition to the PROTECT IP Act (Also)


    Earlier this month there was an amazing groundswell of opposition to SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. I participated in a 1-day anticensorship campaign designed to bring awareness …

     Posted on  November 28, 2011
     and last updated November 29, 2011
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Thanksgiving Edition 2011 -- What I'm Thankful For

    With Thursday Threads coming on a Thanksgiving Thursday, it seems appropriate to use a theme of what I'm thankful for. So, in this edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads I'm offering three things: open source software, the internet, and public libraries. Reading this on Thanksgiving? Feel free to offer what you …

     Posted on  November 23, 2011
     and last updated November 24, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • In Opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act


    This blog will be participating in the American Censorship Day awareness campaign on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 to show opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R …

     Posted on  November 15, 2011
     and last updated November 15, 2011
     ·  2 minutes reading time