These are posts from the blog of Mita Williams called The Librarian of Things
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Can ActivityPub give blogging another chance?
In which the author is testing out the new ActivityPub WP plugin
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Weeknote 36 2023
§1 Chrome users are being opted into sharing their browser history §2 Here in your car, you no longer “only receive” §3 “I start with a single HTML tag and end with the downfall of civilization”
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What is Wikidata and Why You Should Do Data Entry for the Greater Good
On May 31 2023, I spoke at CALL ACBD 2023. These are my slides and some of the things I’ve said.
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Weeknote 18, 2023
§1 My new Google Reader §2 Law Library of Congress Reports §3 The Breach: “library workers are struggling to maintain a welcoming space in the face of policing solutions” §4 Google’s Project Tailwind §5 How About Machine Learning Enhancing Theses?
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Weeknote 17, 2023
§1 What is Bill C-27? §2 What is AIDA? §3 AIDA: An Explainer for Artists & Creators §4 This week in Data and Justice §5 Unreported is not the same as irretrievable
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Weeknote 16, 2023
§1 Injustice for All, Part Two §2 CBC: DIY law is on the rise §3 Ontario police hires no longer need a post-secondary education §4 What Wolfram|Alpha knows about US District Courts §5 The Running of the Interns
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The future of local news is “civic information”
Public agencies and non-profit organizations need to invest in systems that can let their communities directly know of the work and the opportunities that they provide.
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Weeknote 15, 2023
§1 This blog likely helped train the AI you are using §2 About the Topic in OMNI §3 A disappointing decision from the BC Court of Appeal §4 CBC Ideas: Injustice For All, Part One §5 Eight-five percent of (U.S.) librarians are white §6 The AI Incident Database
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Weeknote 14, 2023
Just links. No notes.
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Weeknote 13, 2023
§1 The unchecked authority to determine the extent of our imaginative powers §2 💩⚖️ §3 Feedly can now use AI to track the protests of Feedly’s Protest Tracking Service