On the 20th anniversary of Zotero’s 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: “The Slow Formation of Durable Software“
On the 20th anniversary of Zotero’s 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: “The Slow Formation of Durable Software“
New issue of my newsletter: “Reader Responses, Summer 2026” — Good thoughts, writing, and projects from the readers of Humane Ingenuity, including feedback on reducing the environmental impact of AI, saving the scientific record, and using AI to supplement, rather than replace, human thought
New issue of my newsletter: “Scholarship Will Soon Be Much Harder to Save” — It’s not easy to be confident in a body of knowledge that has phantom limbs
“A Major New Grant for a Library-Led Approach to AI and Books“—A 5-year, $5 million grant to HathiTrust, w/ Northeastern University Library & Authors Alliance as partners, will create responsible, equitable, & transparent services that leverage AI for the public good and scholarly discovery
New issue of my newsletter: “How Can We Minimize the Environmental Impact of Our AI Use?” — It’s not easy being green when there’s little research on the energy consumption of specific AI tasks
New issue of my newsletter Humane Ingenuity: “The Breath of the Author” — The palpable presence of someone else’s mind in our best writing should give us pause about the encroachment of AI text
A new essay: “Perils of the New Armchair Scholarship” — Like nineteenth-century scholars who wrote about the world without deeply engaging with it, academics who lean too heavily on AI risk becoming paper-thin
New issue of my newsletter: “The Kids Are All Right” — Advice I will not give, and books I have not written
New issue of my newsletter: “A Framework for Books and AI in the Public Interest” — How libraries could create a thoughtful and ethical interface between their shelves and artificial intelligence
New issue of my newsletter: “The Role of a New Machine” — An old book puts today’s new technology in perspective
