The invaluable statistics published by Backblaze show that, despite being built from technologies close to the physical limits ( Heat-Assis... | Continue reading
Once again Cliff Lynch invited me to give a talk to the Information Access Seminar at UC Berkeley's iSchool. Preparation time was limited be... | Continue reading
I've been writing for some time about the hype around online advertising . There's a lot of evidence that it is ineffective . Recently, t... | Continue reading
Atlantic Council Report On Software Supply Chains was already rather long when I got to the last of the report's recommendations that I wan... | Continue reading
In American innovation through the ages , Jamie Powell wrote: who hasn’t finished a non-fiction book and thought “Gee, that could have bee... | Continue reading
At the 2009 Library of Congress workshop on Architectures for Digital Preservation, Dave Anderson of Seagate presented the company's roadm... | Continue reading
In American innovation through the ages , Jamie Powell wrote: who hasn’t finished a non-fiction book and thought “Gee, that could have bee... | Continue reading
Almost two years ago, in The Four Most Expensive Words in the English Language , I wrote skeptically about the economics of decentralized s... | Continue reading
Source Salim Furth provides yet more evidence of falling productivity in What’s Behind Falling Productivity: The Census May Hold the Ans... | Continue reading
The surveillance economy, and thus the stratospheric valuations of : Facebook and Alphabet (Google’s parent), which rely on advertising fo... | Continue reading
.The Library of Congress has finally posted the presentations from the 2019 Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections worksho... | Continue reading
Discussions of cryptocurrencies and other blockchain technologies are bedeviled by a nearly universal assumption that attributes that are po... | Continue reading
The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership by Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem and Richard Orr ... | Continue reading
I was asked to deliver Blockchain: What's Not To Like? version 3.0 to a Department of Defense conference-call. I took the opportunity to up... | Continue reading
I gave a talk at the Fall CNI meeting entitled Blockchain: What's Not To Like? The abstract was: We're in a period when blockchain or "Di... | Continue reading
This is the third part of a series about trust in digital content that might be called: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? We ... | Continue reading
Bitcoin 2-year "price" history In the second half of last year Bitcoin experienced a massive pump-and-dump. The ( heavily manipulated ) ... | Continue reading
A year and a half ago I attended Brewster Kahle's Decentralized Web Summit and wrote: I am working on a post about my reactions to the fi... | Continue reading
A year and a half ago I attended Brewster Kahle's Decentralized Web Summit and wrote: I am working on a post about my reactions to the fi... | Continue reading
There are currently a number of attempts to deploy a cryptocurrency-based decentralized storage network, including MaidSafe, FileCoin, Sia a... | Continue reading
I gave a talk at Seagate entitled: Storage Will Be Much Less Free Than It Used To Be Below the fold is an edited text with links to the... | Continue reading
There are currently a number of attempts to deploy a cryptocurrency-based decentralized storage network, including MaidSafe, FileCoin, Sia a... | Continue reading
There are currently a number of attempts to deploy a cryptocurrency-based decentralized storage network, including MaidSafe, FileCoin, Sia a... | Continue reading