Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
I’ve always been a fan of the Centaur. It was there on the first floor of Hodges Library when I was a graduate student, when I worked there on the 6th floor in Systems, and remained there long after I left to go to the College of Communication and Information / School of Information Sciences.…
I seem to be sticking with the attempt to revive this site longer than my previous attempts, probably because cleaning up my Twitter account gave me a goal. That and I remembered that it’s fun to have a site where I can do anything I want.…
To me X will always be Twitter. My first Twitter post, I really don’t remember if they were called tweets at that point, was April 9, 2007 and the content of that Tweet was “work”. Highly valuable words for posterity. Since that time I’ve posted:
Tweets – 863, Replies – 211, and Retweets – 419
With AI, ownership of content is getting very blurry.…
In case you’ve ever wondered where Knoxville’s ice cream trucks emerge from every summer like cicadas.
https://insideofknoxville.com/2025/07/meet-the-kingpins-of-knoxvilles-ice-cream-truck-empire…
Lately I’ve been cleaning up things in my little corner of the online word. Digital clutter and inertia are dangerous things. In the physical word, there are limits to clutter. You most likely have limited space and things eventually reach a point where you (or some one else) has to deal with the clutter.…
Added March 4, 2026: That 2025 return was short lived. Take two.
I started this blog/site in 2003, shortly after finishing my master’s degree in information sciences, and beginning a PhD program. It’s now 2025 and I’ve still got the site but there’s been a break of about 15 years since I posted anything here.…
Added on March 4, 2026: The impulse to clean things up in 2025 didn’t last long. Trying again in 2026. When did the future become now? Typing 2026 seems weird and now 2030 is a date that has come up in normal conversation.…
Just in case you want to see what’s currently painted on The Rock without actually going to campus
https://therock.utk.edu/livestream
More info on the campus landmark can be found at https://therock.utk.edu…
Library Monk is on hiatus. If the spirit moves, I may return to blog again.…