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2026 1

  1. New Job: Project Gutenberg

2025 3

  1. Boston Marathon Strava-verse: Paul Revere's ride
  2. AI bots are destroying Open Access
  3. Strava Verse

2024 7

  1. Thank you, New York City
  2. I Fondled Salvador Dalí's Earrings
  3. Running away from home
  4. All the streets in Montclair
  5. The PII Figleaf
  6. Running Song of the Day
  7. We'll run 'til we drop

2023 2

  1. The Revenge of the Cataloguers
  2. Let's pretend they're ebooks

2022 1

  1. Crowdfunding Lessons from the Spice DAO

2021 5

  1. Top 25 foods at a Traditional Hellman Christmas.
  2. The Ebook Turns 50
  3. Open Access for Backlist Books, Part II: The All-Stars
  4. Open Access for Backlist Books, Part I: The Slush Pile
  5. Creating Value with Open Access Books

2020 3

  1. Infra-infrastructure, inter-infrastructure and para-infrastructure
  2. We should regulate virality
  3. Notes on work-from-home teams

2019 9

  1. Your Identity, Your Library
  2. Four-Leaf Clovers
  3. Responding to Critical Reviews
  4. RA21: Technology is not the problem.
  5. RA21 doesn't address the yet-another-WAYF problem. Radical inclusiveness would.
  6. RA21's recommended technical approach is broken by emerging browser privacy features
  7. RA21 Draft RP session timeout recommendation considered harmful
  8. RA21 RP does not require secure protocols. It should.
  9. Fudge, and open access ebook download statistics

2018 11

  1. On the Surveillance Techno-state
  2. Towards Impact-based OA Funding
  3. A Milestone for GITenberg
  4. eBook DRM and Blockchain play CryptoKitty and Mouse. And the Winner is...
  5. My Face is Personally Identifiable Information
  6. The Vast Potential for Blockchain in Libraries
  7. The Shocking Truth About RA21: It's Made of People!
  8. Choose Privacy Week: Your Library Organization Is Watching You
  9. Everything* You Always Wanted To Know About Voodoo (But Were Afraid To Ask)
  10. Holtzbrinck has attacked Project Gutenberg in a new front in the War of Copyright Maximization
  11. GitHub Giveth; Wikipedia Taketh Away

2017 13

  1. 2017: Not So Prime
  2. Inter Partes Review is Improving the Patent System
  3. Turning the page on ereader pagination
  4. Prepare Now for Topical Storm Chrome 62
  5. PubMed Lets Google Track User Searches
  6. Creative Works *Ascend* into the Public Domain
  7. Book Chapter on "Digital Advertising in Libraries"
  8. Readium's New Licensed Content Protection May Result in Better Reader Privacy
  9. Copyrighted Clickstream Poetry to Stop ISP Click-Selling
  10. Reader Privacy for Research Journals is Getting Worse
  11. How to enable/disable privacy protection in Google Analytics (it's easy to get wrong!)
  12. Policy-based Privacy is Over
  13. Google's "Crypto-Cookies" are tracking Chrome users

2016 13

  1. How to check if your library is leaking catalog searches to Amazon
  2. Maybe IDPF and W3C should *compete* in eBook Standards
  3. Start Saying Goodbye to eBook Pagination
  4. Entitled: The art of naming without further elaboration or qualification.
  5. Wiley's Fake Journal of Constructive Metaphysics and the War on Automated Downloading
  6. 97% of Research Library Searches Leak Privacy... and Other Disappointing Statistics.
  7. April Fools is Cancelled This Year
  8. Sci-Hub, LibGen, and Total Information Awareness
  9. Inside a 2016 Big Deal Negotiation...
  10. The Impact of Bitcoin on Fried Chicken Recipe Archives
  11. Not using HTTPS on your website is like sending your users outside in just their underwear.
  12. The Best eBook of 2015: "What is Code?"
  13. A New Year's Resolution for Publishers and Libraries: Switch to HTTPS

2015 17

  1. xISBN: RIP
  2. Using Let's Encrypt to Secure an Elastic Beanstalk Website
  3. This is NOT a Portrait of Mary Astell
  4. Weaponization of Library Resources
  5. Hey, Google! Move Blogspot to HTTPS now!
  6. Update on the Library Privacy Pledge
  7. Library Privacy and the Freedom Not To Read
  8. The Library Digital Privacy Pledge
  9. Protect Reader Privacy with Referrer Meta Tags
  10. Towards the Post-Privacy Library?
  11. Review: Alex Winter's "Deep Web" about Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht
  12. Ranganathan and the 5 Blind Librarians
  13. Suggested improvements for a medical journal privacy policy
  14. 16 of the top 20 Research Journals Let Ad Networks Spy on Their Readers
  15. "Free" can help a book do its job
  16. "Passwords are stored in plain text."
  17. Why GitHub is Important for Book Publishing

2014 30

  1. The Year Amazon Failed Calculus
  2. Stop Making Web Surveillance Bugs by Mistake!
  3. NJ Gov. Christie Vetoes Reader Privacy Act, Asks for Stronger, Narrower Law
  4. If your website still uses HTTP, the X-UIDH header has turned you into a snitch
  5. Reading Privacy Enables Reader Sharing
  6. GITenberg: Modern Maintenance Infrastructure for Our Literary Heritage
  7. Adobe, Privacy and the Big Yellow Taxi
  8. Correcting Misinformation on the Adobe Privacy Gusher
  9. The Perfect Bookstore Loses to Amazon
  10. Online Bookstores to Face Stringent Privacy Law in New Jersey
  11. Emergency! Governor Christie Could Turn NJ Library Websites Into Law-Breakers
  12. Attribution Meets Open Access
  13. Analysis of Privacy Leakage on a Library Catalog Webpage
  14. Libraries are Giving Away the User-Privacy Store
  15. Don't Bother Reading "Acts of the Apostles"
  16. "Subtleism" is a Useful Word
  17. Is Freemium Really Open Access?
  18. Overdrive is Making My Crazy Dream Come True
  19. One Human Brain = 8 Global Internets (Total Data Rate)
  20. The Future of the Book is Unfinished: John Sundman's "Biodigital"
  21. Review: The Internet's Own Boy
  22. Is the Kindle Direct Program MFN Legal?
  23. Library Group to Acquire Readmill Assets
  24. The Asterisk behind NYPL and Bookish
  25. eBook ILL is silly. The reason why will bore you.
  26. The DMCA Takedown of a Feynman Lectures eBook Converter
  27. Open Access Honesty
  28. Crowd-Frauding: Why the Internet is Fake
  29. EPUB has a Steep Road Ahead (Notes from Open Book Hack 2014)
  30. In 2013, eBook Sales Collapsed... in My Household.

2013 50

  1. A Scientist Needs More
  2. Physics and Testosterone, Part 5: Missing Nobelists
  3. Physics and Testosterone Part 4: Bang
  4. Physics and Testosterone Part 3: Jumping off Cliffs
  5. Physics and Testosterone Part 2: Study Hall
  6. Physics and Testosterone Part 1: Captain Kirk
  7. Google Books and Black-Box Copyright Jurisprudence
  8. Blogifying a Book
  9. eBook Heaven
  10. NYLSLR: The eBook Copyright Page is Broken
  11. Internet Plumbing: Mixed Redirect Chains
  12. Booksmash's Lust-O-Meter Shows How Innovation Happens
  13. I Hired a Book
  14. The Inaugural LibraryReads List, With e-Lending Annotations
  15. A Rational Framework for Library eBook Licensing
  16. Wattpad Usage is in the Ballpark of US Public Libraries
  17. Proposal: The Dated Creative Commons License
  18. Does Asking for Money on Scribd Negate Creative Commons?
  19. NJ Senate Primary Could Become a Referendum on NSA Surveillance
  20. PW: "Author as Entrepreneur"
  21. Magic Rights Management for eBooks
  22. Book Metadata Under a Bushel
  23. Publishing Hackathon a BookSmashing Success
  24. Four Corners of the Sky: The End
  25. Four Corners of the Sky: Chapters 42-48
  26. Four Corners of the Sky: Chapters 39-41
  27. Four Corners of the Sky: Chapters 35-38
  28. Four Corners of the Sky: Chapters 29-34
  29. Four Corners of the Sky: Chapters 15-28
  30. Four Courners of the Sky: Chapters 10-14
  31. Four Corners of the Sky: Through Chapter 9
  32. Four Corners of the Sky: Through Chapter 4
  33. Big Library Read Diary: Four Corners of the Sky
  34. No-Return eBook Lending
  35. Publishing Hackathon Pretty Much Ignores eBooks
  36. Hack the Publishing Hackathon
  37. 3,000 Libraries to Power "Big Library Read"
  38. It [was] LEGAL to download The Great Gatsby... (revised January 1, 2021!)
  39. Dandelion Publishing is the Worst Idea Ever
  40. Book Publishing After the JOBS Act Revolution
  41. Introducing the Invalid ISBN System
  42. Twitter Bots are Getting Stranger
  43. African Drummers Invented an Internet
  44. Can Libraries Lend eBooks Without DRM?
  45. One eBook to Prove Them All
  46. Anachronisms and Dysfunctions of eBook Front and Back Matter
  47. Consternation Over Ability to Copy and Paste
  48. The Four Crimes of Aaron Swartz (#aaronswnyc part 2)
  49. Edward Tufte was a Proto-Phreaker (#aaronswnyc Part 1)
  50. 2012: Libraries Not Dead Yet

2012 30

  1. Einstein's Never-Ending Copyright
  2. Heisenberg's Uncertain Copyright
  3. Copyrighting the Number 42: a Stunt
  4. Sandy's Power in Photos
  5. Library Connections to Open Access eBooks
  6. OA CC-BY MIT WTF?
  7. IRLeality
  8. CC BY and the Truth-Printing Business
  9. Stripe, Balanced, WePay for Payments: Not big enough to #fail
  10. The "I Used This" Button
  11. Why I'm not mad at Amazon
  12. Running a Start-Up
  13. Secret Desert Meeting Report: It Was Hot
  14. "Open Access eBooks" eBook is on GitHub
  15. Digital Content Working Group at ALA
  16. We Made Some Matches, Lighting Them is Up To You
  17. Unglue.it Launches on Thursday
  18. Publishing's Amazon Powered Future
  19. Portability is Amazon's Kryptonite
  20. Supreme Court to Hear Quantum Copyright Case
  21. Jellybooks Breaks All the eBook Store Rules
  22. Makeithappenism
  23. Random House's eBook Price Hikes are GOOD for Libraries. IF...
  24. The Slow Books Movement
  25. Borrowing vs. Buying Books: the Numbers
  26. Libraries Happen
  27. Unglue.it Preview All Systems Go
  28. Howard Dean and Rush Holt Oppose SOPA
  29. Foreign Libraries Will Be Infringing Sites Under SOPA
  30. 2011: The Year the eBook Wars Broke Out

2011 69

  1. How to Dig for Book Data Treasure
  2. SOPA Could Put Common Library Software in the Soup
  3. Book Lending Ignorance
  4. It's Not About Libraries, It's About Amazon
  5. eBook Markets Need eBook Quality Standards
  6. Creative Commons Media Neutrality and eBook Rights after Rosetta v. Random
  7. The United Nations of Reading
  8. Creative Commons - ND (No Derivatives)
  9. The DPLA Muster
  10. Creative Commons - NC (Non-Commercial)
  11. Creative Commons - BY (Attribution)
  12. How Can We Change the Future? The Tomorrow Project
  13. The Clawback of @lessig's "Remix"
  14. Are Neutrinos Superluminal? Judge for Yourself.
  15. Can JSTOR Solve the Course-Assigned eBook Problem?
  16. Crowd-Finding the Orphan Books
  17. The Smell of a Book
  18. To Honor Project Gutenberg's Founder, Dedicate Something to the Public Domain
  19. Ungluing eBooks Progress Report: We Have a Name!
  20. Peak Book Value
  21. What's a Book Worth?
  22. Structures to Build
  23. Library Data Beyond the Like Button
  24. Liking Library Data
  25. Spoonfeeding Library Data to Search Engines
  26. Library Data: Why Bother?
  27. 3M's eBook Cloud Library Didn't Come Out of Nowhere!
  28. Four Times Around the Library World
  29. EPUB 3 Beefs Up Metadata, but Omits Semantic Enrichment
  30. We Need a Name for Our Ungluing Books Service
  31. Our Metadata Overlords and That Microdata Thingy
  32. EPUB Really IS a Container
  33. Unbound wants to be the Kickstarter for Books
  34. Hachette at the Tipping Point
  35. The Object-Oriented Book
  36. Open Access eBooks, Part 4. Libraries
  37. Open Access eBooks, Part 5. Changing the World
  38. The Coffee's On, Let's Get to Work
  39. Open Access eBooks, Part 3. Business Models for Creation
  40. Open Access eBooks, Part 2. What does Open Access mean for e-books?
  41. Open Access eBooks, Part 1
  42. A Corollary to Raganathan's Third Law
  43. In Defense of the Book as a Container
  44. The Public Broadcasting Model for eBooks
  45. The Threat to Book Publishing From Long-Dead Authors, and a Solution
  46. Statistician Can't Distinguish Library Patrons from Monkeys
  47. Simon and Schuster is Looking at Limited Lending Library eBook Models
  48. What's next for "Google's" Book Rights Registry?
  49. Help Me Study the Physics of Book Use
  50. The Pareto Principle and the True Cunning of HarperCollins
  51. eBook Carrots for Libraries
  52. Gluejar is Hiring
  53. What is a Limited-Check-Out eBook Worth?: Two Polls
  54. Judge Denny Chin Says He's Working On It
  55. HarperCollins and the Suspension of eBook Disbelief
  56. OverDrive and the Library eBook Convenience Paradox
  57. How Apple May Inadvertently Boost eBook Linking
  58. Why (Code4) Libraries Exist
  59. Libraries Creating Connections
  60. Toys and Tools vs. the Enterprise at Code4Lib
  61. Co-Founders: Your Idea is Worthless. Show Your Chops!
  62. How to Fund a Public eBook Library with Tax Deductions
  63. It's No Pocalypse at Digital Book World
  64. Doing Good Things Together
  65. eBook Identifier Confusion Shakes Book Industry
  66. Why ProQuest Bought ebrary
  67. Bridging the eBook-Library System Divide
  68. Inside the Dataculture Industry
  69. Fundamental Constant Numerology

2010 88

  1. 2010 Summary: Libraries are Still Screwed
  2. Why does Sarah Palin Charge for eBooks?
  3. Christmas and Cooking
  4. Crossing the Street in India
  5. The Most Important e-Reader Company You've Never Heard Of
  6. Inside an Indian Bookstore
  7. Lots of Markets, Lots of Business Models
  8. Biblio-Social Objects: Copia, Mendeley, LibraryThing and Mongoliad
  9. Where English is Spoken
  10. On The Value of Things - at a Garage Sale
  11. Real Research Gets Reproduced
  12. Infochimps and the scaling of dataset value
  13. Consumer Interest in Pirated eBooks is Even Lower Than I Thought
  14. The User-Generated "Rally to Restore Sanity"
  15. Business Idea #4: Ungluing eBooks
  16. Attributor eBook Piracy Numbers Don't Add Up
  17. Bounty Markets for Open-Access eBooks
  18. Consumer Demand for Pirated eBooks Stopped Growing in 2010
  19. Aggregating Deep Discount Readers of eBooks
  20. A Web Developer's Approach to Bedbugs
  21. Philosopher Tim O'Reilly Lights Up Publishing
  22. Library Journal: Explosive Change in the Library
  23. Can Libraries Work Together to Acquire eBook Assets?
  24. Library Journal: If Librarians Ran the Supermarket
  25. What "Ping" Really Means
  26. For eBook Reading Devices, More is Less
  27. Library Journal: Should Kids Get eBooks in School?
  28. Library Journal: Libraries, Ebooks, and Competition
  29. Charlie Chan Actor Warner Oland Not Mongolian, Say Wikipedia
  30. A Library Monopsony for Monographic eBook Acquisition?
  31. The Curious Case of eCapitalization
  32. Koha Community Considers Affero License
  33. What IS an eBook, Anyway?
  34. Bambú. Framing.
  35. Internet Archive Sets Fair-Use Bait With Open Library Lending
  36. Global Warming of Linked Data in Libraries
  37. Introducing the Totebag for eBooks
  38. Inter-Library Loan Reinvented for eBooks and Just-In-Time
  39. Patron Driven eBook Acquisition: Crab Legs vs. Spinach
  40. New Buzzwords: Geo-Aware eBooks and Sub-text Annotations
  41. How Electronic Resources Really Get Priced
  42. Are Public Libraries in a Death Spiral?
  43. BookExpo, Digital Book 2010, and eBook Messes
  44. Monstrous eBook Sales...in Japan
  45. Bit.ly Preview Add-on Leaks User Activity; Referer Header Considered Harmful
  46. Ten Evil Uses for URL Shortening Services
  47. A Long Handle on Shortened Digital Object Identifiers
  48. Authors are Not People: ORCID and the Challenges of Name Disambiguation
  49. Pick this Nit: Null Path URIs and the Pedantic Web
  50. What IS a Library, Anyway?
  51. Facebook vs. Twitter: To Like or To Annotate?
  52. When Shall We Link?
  53. Beware, Comment Spammers!
  54. The Library IS the Machine
  55. iPad People, Here's What You Missed
  56. License Agreement for Go To Hellman Blog
  57. $25 eBook Reader Application Scenarios
  58. Content is Bling
  59. Overdrive to Offer Honor System eBook Lending for Libraries
  60. Second Sourcing, Application Interfaces, and a 16 Bit Static Ram
  61. After EBSCO Hooks NetLibrary Will Others Take the eBook Bait?
  62. The Starbucks Library, Version 1.0
  63. eBooks in Libraries a Thorny Problem, Says Macmillan CEO
  64. After 25 Years, My Mac Plus Still Works
  65. Business Idea Number 3: Gluejar Book Search
  66. eBook Pricing Calculus and A/B Testing
  67. Named Graphs, Argleton and the Truth Economy
  68. Notes from the Google Books Fairness Hearing
  69. Settlement Lawyers Say Real Authors Don't Advocate Fair Use
  70. Blog Post Number One Hundred
  71. Branches of Koha
  72. Copyright-Safe Full-Text Indexing of Books
  73. Back to the Future at the Storefront Library
  74. Who Owns Koha?
  75. Deconstructing the Attributor Book Piracy Study
  76. 8 One-Way Business Models for Linked Data
  77. PTFS to Acquire LibLime and Move to Library Systems Premier League
  78. Google Exposes Book Metadata Privates at ALA Forum
  79. Librarians with Bags
  80. Library Automation Vendors Discuss Bicycles at ALA Midwinter
  81. Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion
  82. Business Idea #2: eBooks are not Books
  83. Why Libraries Exist
  84. Numbers for Libraries and the Book Market
  85. The Rock-Star Librarian and Objective Selector
  86. 2020: Fewer Libraries, More Locations
  87. Ten Predictions for the Next Ten Years
  88. Do Libraries Have a Role in the Coming e-Book Economy?

2009 81

  1. Copyright Enforcement for eBooks: Cultural Life Preserver or Orwellian Nightmare?
  2. Holiday Product Management and the Hardcover Ebook
  3. When Amazon and Kindle Win
  4. Supporting Attendance at Code4Lib
  5. Business Idea #1: Library Development Jobs Shouldn't Be Lame
  6. The Case Against Using Spoofed e-Books to Battle Piracy
  7. My Funnest Bugfix Ever: the Double Relative Redirect
  8. The Story of Gluejar
  9. Databases are Services, NOT Content
  10. ZIP vs. PAF: Has Database Copyright Enabled Postcode Data Business?
  11. Publish-Before-Print and the Flow of Citation Metadata
  12. Putting Linked Data Boilerplate in a Box
  13. The Book Rights Registry Unclaimed Works Fiduciary: Powerful Regent or Powerless Figurehead?
  14. The New York Times Gets It Right; Does Linked Data Need a CrossRef or an InfoChimps?
  15. The Uniqueness of Sentences and J. K. Rowling's (Non)Infringement of Tanya Tucker
  16. The Blank Node Bother and the RDF Copymess
  17. The New York Times Blunders Into Linked Data, Pillages Freebase and DBPedia
  18. Ralph Waldo Emerson on URI Mysticism
  19. Rehashing the Copyright Salami
  20. Copyless Crowdscanning: How to Legally Index the World's Books
  21. My Optimized Baseball Media Diet and Why Motoko Rich Can't Count
  22. Normal and Inverse Network Effects for Linked Data
  23. The Revolution Will Be Digitized (By Cheap Book Scanners)
  24. Wave is Better on the iPhone
  25. Judge Chin Confronts the Scanning Problem
  26. Telephone Dread and Wave Inbox Puppies
  27. Google's Wave is a Tsunami of Conversation
  28. It Shall Be Unlawful to Sell Non-accessible Books
  29. A Reading Miracle. It May Be Legal, but Don't Ask the Grox
  30. Nambu Gets Better and Shortener User Tracking is Undermined
  31. In Which Judge Denny Chin Becomes an Orphan Works Hero
  32. The Redirector Chain Mashup Design Pattern
  33. Public Identity and Bowerbird Privacy
  34. RDF Properties on Magic Shelves
  35. White Dielectric Substance in Library Metadata
  36. Third Wheels on Class Action Coffee Search
  37. Tr.im's Brief Demise and the Privacy Implications of the Bit.ly Monopoly
  38. Shibboleth, Google Book Search, and the Hello Kitty Diary
  39. What the Google Books Settlement Agreement Says About Privacy
  40. Can Librarians Be Put Directly Onto the Semantic Web?
  41. Ignition Timing for Semantic Web Library Automation Engines
  42. Google Books Settlement Agreement Panel at New York Public Library
  43. The Illusion of Internet Identity
  44. If Elvis had an OpenID and the Mome Raths Outgrabe
  45. The Evolution of Names and Personal Identifiers
  46. Why did you ReTweet that Tweet?
  47. The New York Times is NOT Being Disrupted by Innovation
  48. Twittering Librarians Confront Hashtagging
  49. Dung Beetle Armament and the Real Threats to Scientific Publishing
  50. Spherical Livestock and the Alleged Disruption of Scientific Publishing
  51. URL Shorteners and the Semantics of Redirection
  52. Crossref, OpenURL and more Linked Data Heresy
  53. How Semantic Technology Unified China in the Qin Dynasty
  54. Linked Data Heresy? Under the Hood at AdaptiveBlue
  55. Open Database License is Released and My Brow is Sweating
  56. Why the Times took 8 days to Announce its Linked Data Announcement
  57. The Bilbo Baggins of the Semantic Web
  58. The New York Times and the Infrastructure of Meaning
  59. Triple Stores Aren't
  60. Siri and the Big Head Cases
  61. Is Semantic Web Technology Scalable?
  62. Semantic Web Asteism
  63. Linked Data vs. Google Fusion Tables
  64. Conference Hashtags Don't Evolve
  65. Magic and Truth Maintenance
  66. When are you collecting too much data?
  67. Who's the Boss, Steinbrenner or Springsteen?
  68. Part 3: Reification Considered Harmful
  69. Twitterdata and How Chinese Could Be the Future of Tweeting
  70. There is no truth on the internet
  71. Reif#&cation Part 2: The Future of the RDF, RDFa, and the Semantic Web is Behind Us
  72. Reif#&cation Part 1: RDF and the dry martini
  73. My Pathetic Life (#mpl) and Collaborative Intelligence
  74. Google, RDFa, and Reusing Vocabularies
  75. Dancing Parrots and how the Semantic Web will Happen
  76. Death, another unsolved problem. Wait... Facebook says it's a "Known Problem"
  77. Smart Social Networks (consult a health professional before reading)
  78. RDF and Twitter: Compare and Contrast
  79. I have seen the Semantic Web and it tweets "Temba, his arms wide!".
  80. Optimism about OpenURL
  81. Does Google *really* get an Orphan Monopoly?