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Eric Hellman: Boston Marathon Strava-verse: Paul Revere's ride

https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/04/boston-marathon-strava-verse-paul.html

Published: April 22, 2025 17:03

In seventh grade, Miss Phillips had me memorize "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. So I did. After finishing "Jabberwocky" to start off the year of run naming, it seemed obvious what my next effort would be. I calculated that I could…

David Rosenthal: Going Out With A Bang

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/04/going-out-with-bang.html

Published: April 22, 2025 15:00

In 1.5C Here We Come I criticized people like Eric Schmidt who said that: the artificial intelligence boom was too powerful, and had too much potential, to let concerns about climate change get in the way. Schmidt, somewhat fatalistically, said that…

David Rosenthal: Paul Evan Peters Award Lecture

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/04/paul-evan-peters-award-lecture.html

Published: April 22, 2025 03:12

At the Spring 2025 Membership Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information, Vicky and I received the Paul Evan Peters Award. You can tell this is an extraordinary honor from the list of previous awardees, and the fact that it is the first time it…

Open Knowledge Foundation: [Announcement] Open Data Editor 1.4.0 version release

https://blog.okfn.org/2025/04/21/announcement-open-data-editor-1-4-0-version-release/

Published: April 21, 2025 16:57

A group of data journalists from Nepal take part in an Open Data Editor training session. Photo: OKNP The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) is happy to announce the release of Open Data Editor (ODE) 1.4.0, the latest version of our new desktop…

Journal of Web Librarianship: Hallucitation in Scientific Writing: Exploring Evidence from ChatGPT Versions 3.5 and 4o in Responses to Selected Questions in Librarianship

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19322909.2025.2482093?ai=1dl&mi=co84bk&af=R

Published: April 21, 2025 06:24

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Hugh Rundle: How to migrate your Forgejo site

https://www.hughrundle.net/how-to-migrate-your-forgejo-site/

Published: April 19, 2025 00:00

This week I migrated my virtual server from Digital Ocean, where I pay in USD, to a host in Australia, where the punishing and ever-worse currency exchange rate doesn't make monthly bills a lottery. This is the third or fourth time I've gone through a…

LibraryThing (Thingology): Come Join the 2025 Spring Treasure Hunt!

https://blog.librarything.com/2025/04/come-join-the-2025-spring-treasure-hunt/

Published: April 17, 2025 19:51

Spring has sprung, and we’re hosting a vernal treasure hunt in celebration! Come join our Spring Treasure Hunt! We’ve scattered a patch of seedlings around the site, and it’s up to you to try and find them all. Decipher the clues and visit the…

Peter Murray: Issue 115: Public and Private Camera Networks

https://dltj.org/article/issue-115-camera-networks

Published: April 17, 2025 04:00

After last week's issue on digital privacy, I thought I'd focus this week on government-sponsored or -enabled surveillance. As I dug through my store of saved articles, though, I realized I had quite a number of a particular kind of surveillance: camera…

Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Knowledge joins the OFA Symposium 2025 as content partner to amplify its vision and drive impact

https://blog.okfn.org/2025/04/16/open-knowledge-joins-the-ofa-symposium-2025-as-content-partner-to-amplify-its-vision-and-drive-impact/

Published: April 16, 2025 21:02

Originally published by OpenForum Europe The OpenForum Academy (OFA) is pleased to announce its roster of Content Partners for the upcoming OFA Symposium 2025. This year’s Symposium will benefit from the perspectives and expertise of three leading…