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I have been on Mastodon for nearly two years. It has been interesting learning the new culture. I tend to take people at face value there so, when someone asked why their posts weren’t gaining engagement, I responded with some suggestions. It wasn’t what they wanted to hear.

Here or There…

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I have been unhappily surprised by the apparent lack of usage data available to academic law libraries. After talking to some folks at the MAALL annual meeting, my own experience seems to be a common one. While our colleagues in other law library contexts may have rich usage data, legal…

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. One of the things I’ve been looking forward to in my new role is teaching. The calendar has rolled around and I was asked to teach next fall, which is really exciting. I’ll be teaching a course on law…

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I am sensing a disturbance in the Force. Where things like Google alerts used to be reliable sources of news, their reliance on deteriorating search is becoming visible. Websites are also starting to pull their RSS feeds in favor of emailed newsletters. For every information action, a reaction. I have…

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I got a new driver’s license. It is my ninth one, as I’ve moved around a bit and all the jurisdictions in which I’ve lived have required you to get a new one. The visit to the Department of Motor Vehicles wasn’t too bad. You can imagine, though, that not everyone…

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I have been fiddling with my multi-factor authentication, probably more than I should. I had been using Duo Mobile on Android. Then my workplace required me to add the Akamai app because they use Akamai. I wrote about this a few months ago, because I had been playing with the…

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I attended a conference focused on online learning. I’ve been making a push to firm up my understanding about teaching and this was an accelerator. It was noted more than once how dissonant it was to have a conference about online learning where the only way to attend was in-person. The…

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My websites and apps are behind the Cloudflare firewall. I use the web application firewall (WAF) to block anything and everything that shouldn’t be coming through. One periodic request was the quarterly re-issuance of Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates. These are a free way to secure your internet connections but it was…

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For better or for worse, Google’s constant nagging about my shrinking storage space worked. I had already dropped most of their other products but have been using Photos to share images, and Mail has been my primary address for awhile. I’ll continue to use both products but I used the download…

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I was still traveling so I missed the AALL announcement about this artificial intelligence (AI) keyword glossary (members only). It was a project I had worked on, so of course, I was glad to see it get shared publicly. But it had also been a great collaboration, which is not something…

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I’ve just finished Shaping the Bar by Prof. Joan Haworth. I think it’s a must-read for law librarians in any work context. As I moved recently from a public law library to an academic one, I’ve been trying to get up to speed on changes I’ve missed. This was a…

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I’m at the end of my first full week at a new role in Chicago. I had been in California at a public law library for just over 2 years and it was time to move on. There were a lot of reasons, mostly personal, and I had come to the…

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I’ve spent a lot of time talking to people about myself and my family over the last half decade. It’s not something I was terribly comfortable doing. In part, this was because it was a persona constructed for the purpose of those interactions. I am now at a point where I…