Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
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.…
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.…
Library Monk is on hiatus. If the spirit moves, I may return to blog again.…
Added March 6, 2026: And now voice recognition is everywhere. I first used Dragon Naturally Speaking at version 2.0 I think. I’ve never been great at typing, and in the second half of the 1990s this seemed like magic. But you were also dealing with 90s computing power.…
Aside from being an archive of Twitter posts my blog was pretty dormant for 2009 and 2010. But I’m taking a class in Instructional Technology at UTK, (thank you UT staff fee waiver) IT 566 that’s being taught online almost exclusively through blogs and Twitter.…
Added March 11, 2026: 17 years later, I’ve worked for UT full time for almost 20 years now.
I’m a non-tenured Clinical Assistant Professor at UT’s School of Information Sciences, where I got my master’s degree. From 2006 to 2024, I was staff at UT in one position on another.…
I’m realizing that Twitter has given my blog a new lease on life. Making my tweets display on the front page definitely keeps the blog more on my mind since I use Twitter and Twitterrific heavily these days. Pondering a Library Monk redesign now, but I have lots of other projects on the to-do list ahead of that.…