BS in Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 1972.
MFA in Poetry, Warren Wilson College, 1993.

Director of ibiblio.org, Office of the Vice Chancellor, Information Technology Service, 1999-present.
Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1999-present. The University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science, 1999-present. The University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill

Director of MetaLab, Office of the Vice Chancellor, Information Technology Service, 1997-1999.
Lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1997-1999. The University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Lecturer in the School of Information and Library Science, 1997-1999. The University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill

Technical Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, 1996.

Lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1995. The University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Lecturer in the School of Information and Library Science, 1995. The University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill

Systems Programmer/Technical Manager, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Office for Information Technology, 1977-1994.

Electronic news, electronic publishing, collaborative environments and applications, digital libraries, wide area information protocols and applications, virtual communities, virtual reality uses as well as social and legal issues relating to networked information and access including intellectual property, first amendment issues, anonymity and information access. Especially teaching in those areas.

2006 Knowledge Trust Honors Award for Innovation

Founder of the original SunSITE program. Now replicated in over 60 countries.

Member of The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists

1993 winner of UNC Campus Technical Support Award for excellence in user support.

Winner of North Carolina Arts Council Writer's Fellowship, Carolina Quarterly Poetry Prize and Prizes from Southern Humanities Review, Hellas, and others. (See Literary Vitae and Selected Poetry Publications.)

Winner of North Carolina Poetry Chapbook Award, 1990

NC Arts Council Fellowship, 1980

ibiblio sponsored and co-sponsored speakers and events

• NC Science Blogging Conference. January 19, 2008. ibiblio co-sponsored the event and Paul Jones served as co-organizer.
• Cliff Missen of eGranary. February 4, 2008. ibiblio co-sponsored Cliff's talk with INTRAHealth.
• DJ Spooky. February 8, 2008. ibiblio as organizer and co-sponsor (with Art, Cultural Studies, Open Video, English, Carolina Union, Duke Major Performances).

• NCSU Computer Science Graduation Diploma Ceremony. December 19, 2007. Jones as speaker
• INTRAHealth. January 16, 2008. Jones as featured speaker.
• NC Technology Board luncheon. January 25, 2008. Jones as attendee.
• WebWise 08. Institute of Museum and Library Services. Miami. March 5 - 7. Jones as invited panelist.
• Microsoft Technology Summit. March 25 - 28, 2008. Jones as invitee.
• UNC Systems Attorneys Retreat. UNC General Administration. March 20, 2008. Jones as invited speaker.
• National Extention Technology Conference 08. April 29, 2008. Jones as presenter.

• ASIST Panel. November 13, 2007. Jones as panelist.
• UNC Black Journalists Association. February 13, 2008. Jones as panelist
• Cyberlaw class. UNC Law. February 26, 2008. Jones as guest lecturer.
• Media Law class. UNC School of Journalism. February 28, 2008. Jones as guest lecturer.
• Digital Libraries class. March 4, 2008. Jones as guest lecturer.
• Digital Humanities Seminar. UNC English. March 18, 2008. Jones as guest lecturer.
• "Challenges at the Public/Private Boundary: Partnerships, Gifts, and Names" April 16, 2008. Jones as panelist. UNC School of Public Health.

• Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees
• Adminstrative Board of the Library (UNC-CH representing Professional Schools)
• Digital Curation/Institutional Respository Committee
• Daily Tar Heel Editor Selection Panel
• Gillings Acceleration Advisory Committee - UNC School of Public Health

• INLS 697 - Emerging Issues in Information Science
• JOMC 490.4 - Blogs, Citizen Journalism and Virtual Communities

• Kelly Marks (JoMC)
• Sarah Kahn (SILS)
• Julia Kampov-Polevoi (SILS Undergraduate Honors)

• Facebook gets 'E' for efficiency [www.newsobserver.com] News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA Sat, 08 Dec 2007
• The truth's out there - honestly [www.timesonline.co.uk] Times Online - UK Sat, 29 Dec 2007
• Recalling Smith & Walker [www.wickedlocal.com] Salem Gazette - MA, USA Sun, 03 Feb 2008
• Spooky to bring his act to UNC [www.dailytarheel.com] University of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel - Chapel Hill Fri, 08 Feb 2008
• Sanghol archaeological discoveries and Sarasvati civilization [indiainteracts.com] indiainteracts.com - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India Mon, 11 Feb 2008
• Many Resources Available For Tracking Slave Ancestors [www2.tbo.com] Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA Sat, 23 Feb 2008
• Answer Man: Anastasius, the popes' librarian [www.islandpacket.com] Hilton Head Island Packet - Hilton Head Island,SC,USA Sun, 17 Feb 2008
• 'Salem Witch Judge and The Puritan Mind' [www.wickedlocal.com] Salem Gazette - MA, USA Mon, 10 Mar 2008
• Borders may be on its final chapter [marketplace.publicradio.org] Marketplace - Los Angeles,CA,USA Thu, 20 Mar 2008
• Das Ist (Vonne)Gut Music [www.eyeweekly.com] Eye Weekly, Canada - Apr 16, 2008
• Protection sought for Three Mile River watershed [www.wickedlocal.com] Taunton Call - MA, USA Tue, 29 Apr 2008

• North Carolina Science Bloggers Conference. January 20, 2007. Co-organizer.
• Cory Doctorow talk. February 22, 2007. Convener.
• WebWise 2007. March 1, 2007. Invited presenter on Folkstreams.net.
• Planning meeting with the B. B. King and Delta Interpretive Center. January 17, 2007. Invited participant.
• TechTuesdays program at Duke's Information Studies/Information Science. January 23, 2007. Featured speaker.
• Computer Science 380. Open Source and Innovation. March 5, 2007. Guest Lecturer.
• Expertise, Science and Democracy Working Group. Cultural Studies. Invited speaker. March 8, 2007.
• IBM Vice President for Open Source and Open Standards, Bob Sutor talk. Convener. March 14, 2007.
• Open Government Conference. Elon University. Marth 15, 2007. Attendee.
• Sarah "intellagirl" Robins talk. Co-convenor with Fred Stutzman. March 26, 2007
• UNC ASIST panel. "This Converstion is Being Blogged." Invited panelist. March 29, 2007.
• Business 2.0 Next Disruptors. Invited participant. April 5, 2007.
• Technology Entrepreneurship class. "Open Source and Copyright." Guest speaker. April 10, 2007.
• Security and Liberty Forum. April 14, 2007. Co-sponsor with Computer Science and NC-ACLU.
• OCLC, Inc. Invited speaker. May 13 - 15. Dublin, Ohio.
• Preserving Cultural Heritage. UNC-Asheville. Keynote speaker. May 18. Asheville, North Carolina.
• BarCampRDU. Organizing commitee. August 4. Raleigh, NC.
• Computer Science 380 Guest Speaker on Open Source and Copyright. Chapel Hill, NC. October 1.
• IBM and NC Department of Cultural Resources brainstorming on Virtual Worlds. October 3.
• University Distinguished Lecturer. Kansas State University. October 16 - 19. Manhattan Kansas.
• Bob Young lecture. Organizer of ibiblio Speaker Series. October 30.
• Intercontinental Hotel Group. Social Networking Brainstorming. November 19. Atlanta, Ga.

• Song of Joy. Sunday Reader. News and Observer. December 31, 2006. (poem).
• Hip-hip at the Crossroads, Endeavours. Winter 2007.
• "Lenoir gets Google, at a Cost". News and Observer. January 20, 2007. Cited expert.
• "Remixing Scholarship" Carolina Alumni Review. March/April 2007. Pages 42 - 49.
• "Sampling, if Not Digesting, the Digital Library" New York Times. April 9, 2007.

• INLS 092 - Emerging Issues in Information Science
• JOMC 490.4 - Blogs, Citizen Journalism and Virtual Communities

• Advanced Micro Devices -- two Dual Opteron servers (for Groklaw).
• Fedora Foundation and Red Hat -- NetApp attached storage (for Linux distros). Value $9000.00.
• Syngenta -- Network attached storage. 0.5 TB.
• IBM Shared University Research Grant - $50,000

• ibiblio's 15th Anniversary recognized by the North Carolina House of Representatives.

• Podcastercon 2006. January 7, 2006. Co-organizer with Brian Russell.
• North Carolina Press Association. February 24, 2006. Invited speaker on Emerging Technologies (Beyond Blogs and Pods).
• LAUNC-CH Conference (Librarians' Association at UNC-Chapel Hill) Annual Conference. March 13, 2006. Invited speaker on "Library Collections of the Future."
• US Environmental Protection Agency Web Workgroup Retreat. March 14, 2006. Invited Speaker.
• "Open Source in the International Marketplace: What the Open Source Intellectual Property Movement Means for the Developed and Developing World." March 31, 2006. University of Pennsylvania Law School. Invited speaker.
• Louis Round Wilson Academy European Meeting. April 25 - May 1, 2006. University of Granada. Featured speaker.
• Beyond Broadcast. May 12 - 13. Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Harvard Law School. Invited speaker.
• BarCamp RDU. July 22. Raleigh, NC. Organizing Committee.
• "Owning the Future: Ideas and their role in the digital age." Red Hat India and Indian Institute of Technology sponsored symposium. August 24 - 25. Invited speaker.
• Wilson Knowledge Trust Meetings. October 12 - 13. Invited participant.
• "Expression, Repression & Association: What happens when intellectual property laws, social networks and privacy collide." The Evans Speakers Series: Expression & Repression. October 19. Berry College. Invited speaker.
• Craig Silverstein of Google talk. Health Sciences Library lecture. October 26. Panel Moderator.
• Raleigh News and Observer Staff Development Day. October 31. Invited Keynotespeaker.
• "Open Source Licensing: The Basics, The Benefits, The Buzz" UNC Office of Technology Development's Carolina Innovations Seminars. November 9. Invited speaker.
• "Peg Leg Sam, Possum Trot, and Pilebutts - Folkstreams.net" CRADLE Seminar. November 10. Invited speaker.
• We, The (Traditional) Media". Dan Gillmor talk. November 13. Arranged this visit and talk.
• "UNC Local Government of the Future Conference: Education Panel" School of Government. November 16. Invited panelist.
• Innovation and Open Source. Computer Science 380. November 28. Invited speaker.
• David Weinberger talk. School of Information and Library Science Henderson Lecture. December 7. Introduce the speaker.
• "ibiblio futures." North Carolina Research and Education Network Community Day. December 8. Invited speaker.

• 2006 Knowledge Trust Honors Award for Innovation

• INLS 092 - Emerging Issues in Information Science
• JOMC 490.4 - Blogs, Citizen Journalism and Virtual Communities

• Martin Kuhn (completed)
• Glenn Scott

• Babatola Oguntoyinbo (completed)
• Robin Rogers (completed)
• Tae Hee Lee (completed)
• Michael O'Connell

• Brett Bumgarner (completed - highest honors)
• John Walker (completed - highest honors)

• Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees
• Adminstrative Board of the Library (UNC-CH representing Professional Schools)
• Digital Curation/Institutional Respository Committee
• IT Strategic Planning Committee

• Metropolis now: Halfway through the first decade of the 21st century, we've entered a new techno-cultural age. News and Observer. January 1, 2006.
• Podcastercon. NBC 17. January 5, 2006.
• Poetry. WCOM-LPFM. Carrboro, NC. January 31, 2006.
• Blooker Prize. Radio Five BBC. February 21, 2006.
• Blooker Prize and new publishing interviews with BBC-TV, USA Today, Straits Times (Singapore), .net Magazine (UK), Good Morning Tokyo on J-wave Radio (Tokyo), MarketPlace (NPR), and many wire stories worldwide.
• "Streaming Flicks of Punks and Potters." Endeavors. Spring 2006.
• Technobarons of the 21st century Independent Weekly. May 17, 2006.
• Gutenberg 2.0: the birth of open content Linux Weekly News. March 29, 2006.
• "Dark Matters." News and Observer. June 4, 2006.

• Smallwood Foundation - $25,000 for Lyceum
• IBM Shared University Research Grant - $10,000
• Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant for folkstreams.net - $129,424

• Convocation on Scholarly Communications in a Digital World. January 27, 2005. Chapel Hill, NC. Invited participant.
• Triangle Bloggers Conference. February 12, 2005. Chapel Hill. Co-organizer and convener.
• Dan Gillmor visit and talks. "We, the Media." February 11 - 15, 2005. Chapel Hill. I invited Dan and arranged all these talks including visits to the News and Record (Greensboro, NC).
• Mark McCarthy visit and talks. "Darfur and the Humanitarian Information Centre of the United Nations." March 1, 2005. Chapel Hill. I invited Mark and arranged these talks.
• Jessamyn West visit and talks. librarian.net March 21 - 22, 2005. Chapel Hill. I invited Jessamyn and arranged these talks.
• O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. March 14 - 18, 2005. San Diego., Ca. Attendee.
• Computerworld Heroes Awards. April 2 - 4, 2005. San Francisco, Ca. Honoree.
• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (ACM and IEEE). June 7 - 10. Denver, CO. Poster Session on Osprey.
• Computerworld Heroes Awards. June 6, 2005. Washington DC. Finalist.
• Jimmy Wales of Wikipeda visit. October 5 - 6, 2005. I invited Jimmy and arranged his talks.
• Louis Round Wilson Knowledge Trust Inagural Meeting. October 6, 2005. Attendee.
• Red Hat - UNC Symposium on Intellectual Property, Creativity and the Innovation Process. November 1 - 2, 2005. Organizing committee.

• INLS 092 - Emerging Issues in Information Science
• JOMC 191 - Blogging and Virtual Communities

• "We're better if we share." News and Observer January 16, 2005. (interview).
• Bloggers connect at conference. Daily Tar Heel. February 14, 2005.
• Cuts in budget could hurt UNC research Status. Daily Tar Heel. March 30, 2005.
• Faculty touts online journals. Daily Tar Heel. April 11, 2005.
• Who's Talking. WCHL. June 22, 2005. Interview with D. G. Martin.
• "RSS feeds college students' diet for research" USA Today. August 1, 2005.
• Honors Finalist, Education and Academia. Computerworld. June 6, 2005.
• Anniversary of Vannavar Bush's famous essay describing the MEMEX machine. Gizmag, Australia. July 21, 2005.
• Documentaries on blues, cowboys, more live anew on folkstreams.net UNC News Bureau. September 27, 2005. (widely republished).
• 'The Blooker Prize,' The World's First Literary Prize for 'Blooks' (Books Based On Blogs or Web Sites) Launches October 10th. emedia newswire and other outlets and widely republished including BBC,, Journalism.org UK, Globe and Mail (Canada). October 10, 2005.
• "File Sharing" WLFL 22. November 8, 2005. Expert source.
• Students learn roots through music". News and Observer. November 7, 2005.
• "Autumn Symposium Rakes Over Copyright and Patent Law". Andy Oram. O'Reilly Media. November 10, 2005.
• In The Mix" The Daily Tar Heel. November 10, 2005.
• Bloggers move into 'blooks'". News and Observer. November 14, 2005.
• A Blogger's World. Daily Tar Heel. November 23, 2005.
• Blog "secrets" anything but. News and Observer. December 25, 2005.

• Rich Landesburg (completed)
• Deb Procopio (completed)
• Charlene Simmons (completed)
• Minjeong Kim (completed)
• Martin Kuhn

• Adair Thaxton (completed)

• Brett Bumgarner

• Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees
• Adminstrative Board of the Library (UNC-CH representing Professional Schools)

• "Strategies and Technologies of Sharing in Contributor-run Archives." Library Trends. Vol. 53, No. 4, Spring 2005. pp. 651-662.
• "Unapproachable Edens" Sunday Reader. The News and Observer. Raleigh, NC. February 13, 2005.
• "Lesser Light" Sunday Reader. The News and Observer. Raleigh, NC. July 24, 2005.
• Poet of the Week. NC Arts Council. July 11 - 17, 2005.
• "Creation of Heaven" Sunday Reader. The News and Observer. Raleigh, NC. November 13, 2005.

• IBM Shared University Research Grant - $56,000

• Wake County Libraries. Staff Day Keynote Speaker. February 16.
• JOMC 50. Virtual Communities. Guest instructor. February 16.
• Internet Impact Campus Seminar. Invited speaker. February 20.
• IBM University Day. Invited speaker. February 26.
• INLS 302. Minds of Carolina. Guest instructor. February 26.
• UNC Distance Education Committee. Guest speaker. March 4.
• JOMC Executive Seminar. Blogging. Guest speaker. March 16.
• ARMA (American Records Managers Association). Guest Speaker. March 11.
• EMail Usage Reseach Conference (Duke-UNC). Invited attendee. March 10.
• RTPnet. Community Networking Conference. Attendee. March 19.
  
• ISSUES "Virtual Communities" Guest Speaker. April 15.
  
• IS&T Archiving Conference. Minds of Carolina. Paper presenter. April 22.
• Triangle TechExec meeting. Invited Attendee. June 29.
• Friend's Of O'Reilly Camp. Invited Attendee. September 11 - 13.
• Wired/Creative Commons Summit/Benefit. Invited Attendee. September 21 - 22
• Chapel Hill Rotary Club. Invited speaker. October 5.
• Czeslaw Milosz Memorial Service. Presenter of video of Milosz from ibiblio archives. October 7.
• IBM University Day. Invited speaker. October 15.
• Visiting Jordanian Journalists. Invited speaker. November 7.
• IMLS Grantee Training Seminar. Required for grantees. November 14 - 16.
• IBM Academy of Technology Fellows Dinner. Invited attendee. November 30.
• Doc Searls talks at UNC. I arranged all of these. September 7.

• INLS 092 - Emerging Issues in Information Science
• JOMC 191 - Virtual Communities

• WCHL: Special Hour with Sally Greene. February 12. Interviewee.
  
• WRAL-TV: FTC Takes Aim at Spam. May 20, 2004. On camera expert.
• WXYC Webcasting Panel. Invited panelist. November 7.
• WUNC radio: History and Future of Internet Radio. November 24.
• WUNC radio: Summer Reading. August 29.
• "Free as in Tibet: ibiblio's cultural cultivation and community creation." OCLC Systems and Services: International Digital Library Perspectives. Vol. 20. Number 2 (2004).

Dissertation Committees
• Joey Senat (defense scheduled)
• Patrick O'Neil (Completed)
• Jonathan Lillie (Completed)
• Cassandra Imfeld (Completed)
• Richard Landesberg (Completed)
• Glenn Scott (Proposal defended)
• Minjeong Kim
• Deb Procopio

Thesis Committees
• Paige West (Completed)
• Jason Griffy (Completed)
• Olena Gerus (Completed)
• Samira Fazel (Completed)

• Tadra Martin (Completed - chair)
• Katharine Melville (Completed)

• Documenting the American South
• Carolina Health and Environment Community Center

Local Boards
• Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees

National and International Boards
• Linux Documentation Project
• American Open Technology Consortium (founding board member)
• Folkstreams.net

• "Birds and Fishes" News and Observer. Sunday Journal. June 20, 2004.

• Visitors from Monteray Tech. February 4, 2003. Invited Speaker.
• NSF Reviewer. February, 2003.
• Wake County Libraries. Staff Day Keynote Speaker. February 17.
• 55th Conference on World Affairs. Invited panelists/participant. Boulder, CO. April, 2003.
  • CSI: Science in Justice
  • Developing the Click: Info Tech
  • Dot Coms' Financial Meltdown
  • The Playstation Age
  • Are We Waiving Our Rights With Our Flags?
  • DUET Mountain Music: The Simple and the Sublime
• IBM Symposium. October 29. Invited speaker.
• NCREN Research Group. October 6. Invited speaker.
• UNC CS Seminar on writing. October 14. Invited guest lecture.
• UNC Jomc 50. October 20. Invited guest lecture.
• News and Observer. September 9. Focus group on Arts and Features. Invited participant.
• National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture. Regional gathering. December 5. Local organizer.
• NCREN Community Day. December 12. Invited speaker.

BECCA Grant to Russia -- Irkutsk State University and MGIMO - Moscow State Institute of International Relations

• University Courses
• Virtual Communities JOMC 391
• Internet Issues INLS 281

Dissertation Committees
• Bob Stepno (Completed)
• Joey Senat (defense scheduled)
• Patrick O'Neill (proposal defended)
• Victoria Ekstrand (Completed))
• Richard Landesberg (writtens complete)
• Jonathan Lillie (proposal defended)
• James Carstens (completed)
• Nathan Epley (proposal defended)
• Cassandra Imfeld

Advisory Committees
• Documenting the American South
• Carolina Health and Environment Community Center
• UNC-CH Environmental Resource Program
• The South (production project)

Local Boards
• Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees

National and International Boards
• Linux Documentation Project
• American Open Technology Consortium (founding board member)
• Folkstreams.net

Publications
• Web Turns 10 But Was Mosaic Really First and Best Browser? No, No.. Local Tech Wire. localtechwire.com April 21, 2001.
• WCHL Special Show with Wayne Pond. One hour interview. WCHL AM 1350. Aired several times beginning 9 am April 25, 2003.
• Dividing Waters. Sunday Reader. The News and Observer. Raleigh, NC. August 17, 2003.

Citings

• Best Geek. Independent. April 30, 2003.

• The Fantasy and Reality of 2004. Wired.com. December 29, 2003.
• Where Sharing Isn't a Dirty Word. Wired.com. November 17, 2003.
• First Internet digital film library debuts. Newsforge. November 11, 2003.
• Group targets UNC computer user in crackdown on music sharing. Herald-Sun. November 16, 2003.
• Anti-copying campaign treads on rights. Herald-Sun. November 17, 2003.
• Political Web log has great potential. Herald-Sun. November 1, 2003.
• ibiblio designates September as "Linux Month". NewsForge. September 03, 2003.
• Linux: 12 Years Old This Month. LinuxWorld. September 3, 2003.
• WEB AFFAIRS: Access to culture should remain free. The Nation (Thailand). Aug 18, 2003.
• Study: Boomers Still Prefer Printed Pages. Editor and Publisher (and other 70 other news sites and papers. Thanks AP). Septwmber 04, 2003.
• The wide, wild world of ibiblio. The News and Observer. Raleigh, NC. March 12, 2003.

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• NCNI Meeting. Network use and plans at ibiblio and Internet 2. Invited speaker. December 2.
• Creative Commons Announcement Event. Invited Participant. San Francisco. December 16.
• Visitors from the Chuvash Republic with the Small Business and Technology Center. November 4. Invited speaker.
• Advancing the Research Agenda on Free/Open Source Software. European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu 33, 1160 Brussels, Belgium. October 14. Invited Participant/presenter.
• Electronically Mediated Music and Video Experience and Intellectual Property. Lulu Tech Circus. September 28. Invited panelist.
• Intellectual Property Round Table for Thai Ambassador to the USA. Kenan Institute. UNC-CH. September 24. Invited presenter/panelist.
• Digital Resources for the Humanities. Edinburgh, Scotland. September 8 - 11. Juried paper presentation.
• IEEE 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS'02): Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology. Raleigh, NC. June 6 - 8. Invited panelist.
• The EpiDoc Collaborative for Epigraphic Documents . April 29 - 30. Chapel Hill, NC. Invited presenter.
• 54th Conference on World Affairs. Invited panelists/participant. Boulder, CO. April, 2002.
  • Internet: A Cross-Cultural Event
  • Party of Poets
  • It Must be True; I Read It On the Internet
  • National Security vs. Personal Rights
  • The Plagiarism Epidemic
  • Is Sampling Art?
  • What Isn't Sex
  • Music Business Upheaval: Losers and Winners

• Judging
• Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) Front Page Awards. Judge - Technology. Feb. 23, 2002.

• University Courses
• Virtual Communities JOMC 391
• Internet Issues INLS 281
• Honors: Postmodern Comicbook SPCL 91p - 013 (with Jeremy Hurtz)

• Independent Studies
• Ron Brown
• Adair Thaxton
• Todd Wilkens
• Eugene Kim

• Departmental Committees
• SILS Undergraduate Committee
• JoMC Distance Education Committee

• Advisory Committees
• NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online)
• Documenting the American South
• Carolina Health and Environment Community Center
• UNC-CH Environmental Resource Program
• NC Literary Festival

• Local Boards
• Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees

• National and International Boards
• Linux Documentation Project
• American Open Technology Consortium (founding board member)
• Folkstreams.net

• Dissertation Committees
  Bob Stepno (ABD)
  Joey Senat (defense scheduled)
  Wendy Robinson (completed)
  Scott Brown (completed)
  Timothy Bajkiewicz (completed)
  Mark Pescatore (completed)
  Patrick O'Neill (proposal defended)
  Victoria Ekstrand (proposal defended)
  Richard Landesberg (writtens complete)
  Brian Carroll (writtens complete)
  Jonathan Lillie
  James Carstens
  Nathan Epley
  Ben Brunk (proposal defended)

• Master's Papers
  Roger Donaghy

• Publications
• A Quantitative Profile of a Community of Open Source Linux Developers by Bert J Dempsey, Debra Weiss, Paul Jones, and Jane Greenberg. Communications of the ACM. April, 2002.
• Review: Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, by Bruce Schneier. in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Forthcoming.
• Newby, Gregory B.; Greenberg, Jane & Jones, Paul. 2003. "Open Source Software Development and Lotka's Law: Bibliometric Patterns in Programming." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54(2): 169-178.
• "At The Tupperware Party." Sunday Reader. News and Observer. May 12, 2002.

• Citings
• Without Power but on the Net. WUNC-FM's State of Things. December 9, 2002. Invited expert on call-in show
• Books for the Holidays. WUNC-FM's State of Things. November, 2002. Invited expert on call-in show
• .xxx Internet Domain. WUNC-TV Carolina Now. October 3, 2002.
• Self promotion may help melt away music blues The Daily Camera. Boulder, CO. April 13, 2002.
• Plagaiarism construct of Western civilization The Daily Camera. Boulder, CO. April 12, 2002.
• Panelists discuss personal rights, national security The Daily Camera. Boulder, CO. April 11, 2002.
• Freedom or Liberty? The Colorado Daily. Boulder, CO. April 11, 2002.
• Stream On: New legislation threatens to end Internet broadcasting for small radio stations The Spectator. Raleigh, NC. April 10, 2002.
• Opening up the World to Open Source. The News and Observer. Raleigh, NC. February 13, 2002.
• The Proper Nettiquette for Tag Lines. The News and Observer. Raleigh, NC. February 13, 2002.
• Net.radio endangered. KGNU. Boulder, CO. April 10, 2002.
• Net.radio feature. All Things Considered. National Public Radio. May 2, 2002.
• Webcasting Royalties All Things Considered. National Public Radio. June 21, 2002.
• Mr and Mrs Geek go to Washington Wired. April 19, 2002.
• 'Superarchives' Could Hold All Scholarly Output Chronicle of Higher Education. July 5, 2002.
• "Ask About 10 Years of Free Web Publishing" interview in SlashDot. July 29, 2002.
• Interviews: Ibiblio Director Paul Jones Answers second part of Slashdot interview. August 7, 2002.
• "Water, civility and hot-lines." WUNC-FM's State of Things. August 15, 2002. Invited expert on call-in show.

• Grants and Partnerships
• 3D Digital Rare Book Library Project - E. S. P. Das Educational Foundation. January 2002 - February 2003. $530,000 for the project.
• Internet 2 Distributed Storage Initiative. January 2002 - June 2002.
• IBM Shared University Research Grant. July 2002. $50,000.

2001 Teaching and Speaking Engagements

• NCSU Librarians Association. Invited Speaker. January 18, 2001. Raleigh, N. C.
• Southern Presses Association. Invited Panelist. February 3, 2001. Duke University.
• Program in Humanities and Human Values. Adventures in Ideas. "Freedom and Responsibility". February 16-17, 2001. Chapel Hill, NC.
• Internet Impact Symposium sponsored by Odum Institute Faculty Working Group on Internet Impact on Social Science Research Invited Speaker. March 30, 2001. Chapel Hill, NC.
• 53rd Conference on World Affairs. Invited panelists/participant. Boulder, CO. April, 2001.
• Beta Phi Mu Annual Meeting and Banquet. Invited keynote speaker. Chapel Hill, NC. May 10, 2001.
• Carolina Genomics Initiative. Invited speaker. Chapel Hill, NC. May 11, 2001.
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Privacy Panel. Video taping team lead. May 23, 2001.
• International Visitors (Tunisia, Malaysia, Croatia, Slovenia, Pakistan). Invited speaker on Free Software and Copyright. July 30, 2001.
• International Visitors (Qatar, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia). Invited speaker on Free Software and Copyright. September 10, 2001.
• TRINOC CON Speculative Fiction Conference Panel on the Future of the Internet with Vernor Vinge, Mark Van Name, Steve Champeon, and Scott Nicholson. October 7, 2001.
• Triangle Society of Technical Communicators. Open Source Software Development. October 11, 2001.
• Shaftesbury Society. John Locke Foundation. November 12, 2001.

• Conferences attended
• Open Archives Initiative. January 23, 2001. Washington, DC.
• South Atlantic Digital Humanities Summit. February 15 - 16, 2001. Charlottesville, VA. Invited Attendee.
• NC Statewide Leadership Conference on Access to Special Collections. April 4, 2001. High Point, NC. Invited Attendee.
• First Annual Conference on Neurogenomics. April 24 - 26, 2001. UNC-CH. Invited Attendee.
• NCSU Conference on Privacy. Raleigh, NC. May 21, 2001.
• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (ACM and IEEE). Roanoke, Va. June 24 - 28, 2001.

• Advisory Committees
• NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online)
• Documenting the American South
• Carolina Health and Environment Community Center
• UNC-CH Environmental Resource Program

• Departmental Committees
• SILS Undergraduate Committee
• JoMC New Media Search Committee

• Honors Program
• Jeremy Hurtz - C-START "Carolina Students Taking Academic Responsibility Through Teaching" class on the Postmodern Comic book

• Publications
• Open(Sourcing) The Doors For Contributor-Run Digital Libraries. Communications of the ACM. May 2001.
• Anti-trust and Microsoft. Oped for Triangle Tech Journal. RTP, NC. July, 2001.
• Top 100 Tech Firms in Eastern NC. Selection panel. Metro Magazine. July 2001.
• "Choices taken from parents: clear censorship". Oped in special feature on Internet Filtering in News and Observer. August 12, 2001.

• Citings
• Music fans halted in midstream. News and Observer. April 30, 2001.
• Surviving the Storm: The printed page isn't going away anytime soon. Spectator. January 24, 2001. Raleigh, NC.
• an-Naharon on-line January 26, 2001. Lebanon. (article in Arabic).
• The Renaissance geek. News and Observer. Raleigh, NC. January 28, 2001.

• Dissertation Committees
  Bob Stepno (ABD)
  Joey Senat (defense scheduled)
  Wendy Robinson (ABD)
  Scott Brown (proposal accepted)
  Timothy Bajkiewicz (defense scheduled)
  Mark Pescatore (exams completed)
  Patrick O'Neil
  Victoria Ekstrand
  Ben Brunk

• Grants and Partnerships
• Center for the Public Domain. September 2000 - July 2004. $4 million for ibiblio.org: the Public's Library
• SourceForge and VA Linux Systems. January 2001. $200,000+ hardware gift for SourceForge Open Source Collaboration.
• IBM Shared University Research Grant. December 2000. $200,000 hardware gift for ibiblio.org
• Real Networks. February, 2001. Software gift of RealSystem Server Pro for 400 simultaneous streams, retail value $21,313.00.

• Guest Teaching 2001 (while on research leave)
• John Sweeney's On-Line Advertising class. February 6, 2001.
• Koleman Strumpf's Public Goods Economics class. February 6, 2001.
• Mike Nelson's Digital Libraries Information Science class. March 21, 2001.
• Deb Aikat's Cyber-journalism (aka JOMC 50) class. March 26, 2001.

• Independent Studies Supervised (while on research leave)
• Victoria Ekstrand (Copyright Misuse)
• James DaLeo (Privacy)
• Tatiana Irvine (Digital Folklore)
• Richard Landesberg (Media Convergence)

2000 Teaching and Speaking Engagements

• Carolina Technology Consultants 4th Annual Retreat. Keynote Speaker. December 15, 2000. Chapel Hill, NC.
• Coalition for Networked Information Fall Task Force Meeting. Invited Speaker. "Contributor-run Libraries." December 7 - 8, 2000. San Antonio, TX.
• Live Webcast on Centerstage. Red Hat Center and NCSU. November 28, 2000. Host/speaker.
• IBM developerWorks barCode Featured Speaker "Linux Development Patterns and Webs of Trust." October 26, 2000. Seattle, WA.
• Southeast Colloquium"s 25th Anniversary Featured Speaker "Journalism Education - Then and Now," with Jack Adams. March 16 - 18, 2000.
• Triangle Chapter - American Records Management Association. Invited speaker on Knowledge Management. April 6, 2000.
• 52nd Annual Conference on World Affairs Invited Panelist. April 10 - 14, 2000.
• International Workshop on New Electronic Media for Global Communication. Invited Panelist. Teleconference: "New Information Technologies: Bridges, Tunnels or Barriers in International Communication." with Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. April 28. Sponsored by Fulbright International Center For Central and Eastern Europe.
• Roger and May Belle Penn Jones Executive Seminar in the Humanities. Invited attendee. May 21 - 26, 2000.

• University courses
• Internet Issues and Future Initiatives (INLS) Spring

• Dissertation Committees
  Bob Stepno (ABD)
  Joey Senat (defense scheduled)
  Wendy Robinson (ABD)
  Scott Brown (proposal accepted)
  Dan Shaver (PhD Completed)
  Kathy Olson (PhD completed)
  Scott Maier (PhD completed)
  Mark Pescatore (exams completed)

• Masters Committees
  Colleen Kenny (completed)
  Scott Griffin (completed)
  Kevin McComack (completed)

2000 Publications

• A Quantitative Profile of a Community of Open Source Linux Developers by Bert J Dempsey, Debra Weiss, Paul Jones, and Jane Greenberg. Accepted for publication by Communications of the ACM.
• Brooks' Law and open source: The more the merrier? Feature. IBM developerWorks Open Source zone. May 26, 2000.
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. June 12, 2000. "ICANN Membership - what does it mean?"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. May 22, 2000. "Voice Recognition."
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. May 15, 2000. "Machine MisTranslations."
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. April 3, 2000. "Stock Options."
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. March 20, 2000. "Digitizing Slides."
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. February 28, 2000. "Where's the Money?"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. February 14, 2000. "Invasions!"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. January 31, 2000. "Total Deletion?"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. January 24, 2000. "E-mail Tax?"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. January 3, 2000. "Get that Domain Name!"
• "Digital Libraries" chapter in The Cybrarian's Manual Chicago: ALA Editions. January, 2000. Editor, Pat Ensor.
• "In Search of the Poetry in Tecnhology: An Amiable Debate between Paul Jones and Betty Adcock." Literacies and Technologies: A Reader for Contemporary Writers. New York: Longman Publishers. Forthcoming. Editor, Robert Yagelski.

Citings

• Germany Leads In Open-Source Development. CMP's TechWeb. November 1, 2000.
• iBiblio Takes MetaLab Concept To A New Level. Slashdot. Feature interview with Robin Miller. September 17, 2000.
• U. of North Carolina Gets $4-Million to Expand 'Public Library of the Internet'. Chronicle of Higher Education. September 12, 2000.
• Online library makes its debut. News and Observer. September 12, 2000. Page B1.
• File-Sharing Web Site Debuts. Daily Tar Heel. September 12, 2000.
• Byrds Guitarist Brings Rock History to Life. Daily Tar Heel. September 12, 2000.
• UNC's online library to be built by users. Chapel Hill News. September 13, 2000. Front page.
• Byrds founder takes '60s to classroom. Chapel Hill News. September 13, 2000. Front page.
• Online Library. Durham Herald. September 12, 2000. Front page.
• Other ibiblio.org stories on WUNC-FM, WRAL-TV and other media.
• Suspended animation. News and Observer. June 20, 2000.
• Carrboro: The new art colony. News and Observer. March 6, 2000.
• Daily Tar Heel Time-Warner and AOL Merger. January 11, 2000.

Conferences attended

• National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage Town Meeting 2000 Copyright and Distance Education Online. March 7, 2000.

• Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Wake Forest University (Invited Speaker) - January 10
• Triangle Linux Users Group (Invited Speaker) - January 14
• "Ethics and the Internet" Dept of Religion, Duke University (Guest Lecturer) - January 20
• Carrboro Internetworkers Association (Invited Speaker) - January 21
• "Privacy on the WWW" North Carolina Systems Administrators (Invited Speaker) - February 8
• "You Are being WWWatched" Science Faculty at Durham Technical Community College (Invited Speaker) - February 17
• "Internet Futures" UNC Technology Expo (Invited Panelist) - February 24
• "Web Privacy" CyberLaw class in UNC Law School. Invited Guest Lecturer - March 24
• "Java" JOMC 50 at UNC. Invited Guest Lecturer - April 7.
• "Intellectual Property In Cyberspace" (Invited Speaker). International Visitors (Nepal, India, Viet Nam, Latvia) - June 4.
• "A Darker Side of Internet Publications" (Invited Speaker). Managing Public Relations in the New Millennium: A Seminar of Interactive Discussions, Problem-solving and Hands-on Experimentation for Executives - November 4 and 5.

• University courses
  • Internet Issues and Future Initiatives (INLS) Spring
    Cyberpublishing and Cybercasting (JOMC) Fall

• Dissertation Committees
  Bob Stepno
  Joey Senat
  Greg Makris (completed)
  Wendy Robinson
  Randy Patnode (completed)
  John Carvalho (completed)
  Scott Brown
  Dan Shaver
  Kathy Olson
  Scott Maier

• Masters Committees
  Carlene Hampel (completed)
  Jason Sugar (completed)
  Scott Griffin
  Kevin McComack
  Amy Griswald

• Other Committees
  Faculty Instructional Technologies Advisory Committee
  Documenting the American South Advisory Committee

• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. January 3, 2000. "Get that Domain Name!"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. December 27, 1999. "Will the AirPort work with BellSouth ADSL?"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. December 20, 1999. "Why is a tilde in a WWW address?"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. December 13, 1999. "DSL questions answered - more or less."
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. December 6, 1999. "What is this @?"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. November 29, 1999. "How Many Web Sites?"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. November 8, 1999. "Finding the Best ISP"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. November 1, 1999. "Modems and 56Kbs"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. October 18, 1999. "What is Y2K?"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. October 4, 1999. "Broken Audio Jack"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. September 27, 1999. "VCR and Y2K"
• Stump the Geeks Weekly column. News and Observer. September 20, 1999. "numlock setting."
• Stump the Geeks Intro to a weekly column. News and Observer. September 13, 1999.
• "I see an elephant" Visions lead off for Mappa Mundi June 1, 1999.
• "Digital Libraries" chapter in The Cybrarian's Manual (forthcoming from ALA Editions) Editor, Pat Ensor.

• Open Source: Who are those guys? Slashdot, 10/29/99.
• Open Source: Who are those guys? Sm@rtReseller. 11/1/99.
• Red Hot Local Company Tips Its Hat After Big Day on Wall Street WRAL-TV. August 11, 1999.
• Clicking Through History UNC Alumni Review. January-February 1999.
• Technology Expo turns heads at UNC-CH News and Observer. February 25.
• Sounds of Cyberspace. Daily Tar Heel. April 8.
• Q&A With The Byrds' Roger McGuinn MP3.com's News. April 9.

• NC Gigabit Network Conference - (Invited Panelist "Faculty Use of High Speed Networks") - February 13
• SURA Conference on Networked Video - (Invited Speaker "Video for the Masses NOW") - March 18 - 19
• North Carolina Literary Festival - (Invited Speaker) - April 3 - 5
• "UNC in 2048." Class of 1948 Reunion. May 16, 1998. (Invited Speaker).
• "Internet in the Classroom" Kazakhstani Journalists (Invited). May 18, 1998.
• State Historical Records Advisory Board Teleconference (Invited) August 12, 1998.

• University courses
  • Internet Issues and Future Initiatives (INLS) Spring
    Independent Study - Group work on folk music data base (INLS) Spring
    Cyberpublishing and Cybercasting (JoMC) Fall
    

• Bob Stepno
  Joey Senat
  Greg Makris
  Wendy Robinson
  Randy Patnode
  Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez

• Michael Manning
  Melissa Liles
  Stephanie Flynn
  Heather Bambalough
  Jamie Vacca

Other Committees:

• Faculty Instructional Technologies Advisory Committee (FITAC)
  NC Literary Festival (IRSS, MetaLab, etc)
  UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities - Technical Design
  JOMC Distance Education Committee
  

• Internet Issues and Advanced Applications 97 - 98 (Scarecrow Press, ISBN: 0810834308) editor with Bert Dempsey. June 1998.
• "Finding the Poetry in Technology" Educom Review. Jan-Feb 1998.

• Internet can't police itself Raleigh News and Observer. November 15, 1998. Featured expert in special Internet Privacy section.
• Internet Pushes Other Media on Breaking Stories WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC. September 21, 1998. Interview with TechTalk's Tom Lawrence. Here's the behind the scenes version.
• "Virtual Virtuosos of Hollerin'" New York Times. August 27, 1998.
• "Distilling History" News and Observer. May 19, 1998.
• Folk Rock of Ages Salon Magazine. May 7, 1998.
• "Technology and the University in 2048" Almanac. Chapel Hill Cable. Interview with Roland Giduz. May, 1998. RealVideo of the Show Part 1 Part 2
• "Technology grant sparks new teaching tools for film" Chapel Hill News. May 1, 1998.
• Southern Folklife Collection expands reach via web site" Chapel Hill News. April 26, 1998.
• "Roger and Me" News and Observer. March 15, 1998.
• Federal prosecutors want DOT to turn over e-mail" News and Observer. February 25, 1998.
• "Wonders of Web come with caveat for employers" News and Observer. February 7, 1998.
• "So.What?" News and Observer. December 21, 1997.
• "Dead Sea Scrolls, Pearl Harbor among varied topics on SunSITE" UNC News Service (picked up on several state and national papers). March 24, 1998.
• 2048 - A virtual vision" Daily Tar Heel. April 15, 1998.
• "A Carolina Mosaic: Thinking Bigger" (Alumni login required). Carolina Alumni Review. March/April 1998. Page 50.

• University Courses
  • Internet Issues and Future Initiatives (INLS with Bert Dempsey) Spring

    Cyberpublishing and Cybercasting (JOMC) Fall

  Conference presentations

  Philanthropy Journal Conference - (Invited speaker "Some Internet Futures") - April 1 and 2 Greensboro, NC

  American Library Association -  Association of College and Research Libraries (Invited Speaker "The New Generation of Scholars: Do they Really Need us?) June 26 - July 3 San Francisco

  Sixth International World Wide Web Conference (Panel coordinator and developer for "Managing Large Internet Servers," (juried); Speaker for "Internet Publishing: A Poet's View, " (juried); "WAIS (History Day)," (invited); "White House Web Pages (History Day)," (invited); Panelist for "Internet Publishing" (invited)) April 6 - 11 Santa Clara

  International SunSITE Manager's Conference - April 22 - 23 - Eastbourne, Sussex, UK (Group leader on SunSITE Development Issues discussion (invited)

  Sun European Education and Research Conference - April 24 - 25 - Eastbourne, Sussex, UK (attendee)

• Planetfest '97 - Mars Landing Celebration and Conference of the Planetary Society - July 4 - 6 - Pasadena CA (networked video and audio coordination and implementation) (invited)

  New Horizons in Aging: Colleges and Communities Working Together - 2nd Annual North Carolina Summer Symposium on Aging - July 23 - 25  ("Tomorrow's Issues Today") (invited)

  School of Journalism and Mass Communication Board of Visitors - April 5 ("What is MetaLab")

  School of Information and Library Science Board of Visitors - April 18 ("What is MetaLab")

  International Visitors Center - Polish Broadcasters - April 18

  International Visitors Center - Dr. Puente of Chile - March 17

  IBM Information Technology Systems Consultants - May 15

  Committees:

  • Botanical Database Development (ILS and others)
    Not-the-Pulitizer Committee (JOMC)
    NC Literary Festival (IRSS, MetaLab, etc)
    UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities - Technical Design
    JOMC Distance Education Committee
    
  Organizer for James Boyle, speaker on Intellectual Property, with IRSS Study Group on Academic Publishing, JOMC, ILS, and MetaLab - April 16

  Campus Guest lecturer:

  • ILS (Kirstin Boecher)
    JOMC (Deb Aikat)

• The UNIX Web Server Book 2nd Edition (Ventana) with Doug Matthews, Jonathan Magid, Donald Ball and Mark Hammel

  "Whither Computing and the Humanities?" Educom Review Jan-Feb 97

  "Java and Libraries: Digital and Otherwise" D-Lib Magazine March 1997

1996 Teaching and Speaking engagements 

University Courses

"Serving Your Internet Needs Since 1992," D-Lib Magazine, with Judson Knott.

"So Wide a Web, So Little Time," Educom Review, May/June 1996 with Jonathan Magid and David McConville

"Godzilla and the Sea Change," Endeavors, December 1995, Vol 12, No. 3. pages 4-5.

"Whither Humanities and Advanced Technology," Educom Review, Forthcoming Jan/Feb 1997

The Web Server Book (2nd printing), Ventana Press, with Jonathan Magid, Doug Matthews, and David McConville

"CGI Programming" in Navigate! from Netscape Press, April 1996, with Jonathan Magid, Doug Matthews, and David McConville

Windows NT Web Server Book, Ventana Press, Contributing Editor

University Courses

Cyberpublishing and Cybercasting, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Internet 1996 World's Exposition, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Seminar on Advanced Internet Applications and Issues, UNC School of Information and Library Science

Jimmy Carter Library / Carter Center, Presentation

School of Journalism and Mass Communications Board of Visitors Day, New Technologies Panel.

US Information Agency Presentation for European Business and Economics Writers

School of Information and Library Science Alumni Day, "Electronic Publishing"

North Carolina Library Association Conference on Copyright

National Society for Performance and Instruction, Research Triangle Chapter.

North Carolina Society for Public Relations Conference, "Publishing on the World Wide Web"

Carolina Publishing Institute. "Beyond CD- ROMs"

Texas Association for State Systems for Computing and Communications. Keynote Speaker.

UNC Center for the Humanities, Southern Memory Conference, Discussion Leader, "Memory and Technology"

Java, Southeast Regional Teleconference by Sun Microsystems.

Modern Language Association, "Law and Order on the Electronic Frontier"

North Carolina Library Association Biennial Conference, "Images"

Guest speaker in various Journalism and Mass Communication as well as Information and Library Science courses

NC Rural Teleforum

Presidential Libraries Conference

Interop, Internet Multicasting Team

National On-Line Conference & ASIS

NC Human Services Automation Conference

NC AHEC Medical Informatics Conference

Sun Education and Research Conference

Emerging Trends in Information Technology, NC Association of County Commissioners, NC League of Municipalities, UNC Institute of Government

National Association of Press Photographers (Tech support only)

NC System Administrators Association

International Conference on Mosaic and the Web, Tutorial on Managing WWW Servers 

Sun@Universum '94, Mexico City, SunSITE USA

UNC Health Sciences Seminar (WAIS)

NC CAUSE Libraries and Automation conference (NIDR tools)

National Net 93

IBM ACIS Regional Conference (NIDR tools)

INET 93 (SunSITE and Mosaic)

NC AHEC (NIDR tools)

EDUCOM (SunSITE and laUNChpad and NIDR tools)

SIGWAIS/SIGNIDR (SunSITE and publishing on the Internet)

Duke-UNC Medical Informatics Seminar (WAIS)

Syracuse Information Management in the Public Sector Seminar (SunSITE, Mosaic, and Government Documents)

Monthly UNC sessions (NIDR tools aka WAIS and Beyond)

More Technical

Member of Educom Common Solutions Group on Shared Documents.

Chairman of UNC Campus Electronic Mail Task Force

Vice-president of COLLECT (International WYLBUR Users Group)

Chairman of the Tags and Database Committee of BITNET (one of two standing committees of BITNET Systems Programmers)

Less Technical

Member of UNC-CH Reaccreditation Self-study group on Libraries and Computing

Board Member of Orange County Civil Liberties Union

Founder and Vice President (for the first three years) of the North Carolina Writers' Network

Poetry writing instructor at ArtSchool (later ArtsCenter) for five years

Director of ArtCenter's Poetry Exchange Series for ten years

Poetry workshop leader for sessions with North Carolina Poetry Society, Charlotte Writers' Club, North Carolina Writers' Network, and many others

Member of several North Carolina Arts Council Advisory Panels on Artist Selection

Head of UNC Workstation Group ( involved in UNC's WAIS, gopher, MIME, Mosaic and digital library efforts at this level)

Developer of SunSITE project, a large digital library housing important archives and journals including: White House Papers, US Budget for 1994, Society for Tantric Studies Journal, Sustainable Agriculture, as well as joint projects with Smithsonian Photo Archives, Library of Congress, Internet Talk Radio, and various divisions of Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems

Guiding force and manager of laUNChpad (a prominent public access Internet Service Mediators)

Experienced coordinator of full-time employees, student employees and volunteers

Sun Microsystems 1998

Cisco Systems 1998

Educom 1998

Chancellor's Information Technology Grants (2) 1998

Red Hat Software 1998

NC Arts Council (Internet Poetry Archive) 1998

Cisco Systems 1997

Sun Microsystems 1997

Lightworks 1997

POET (software grant) 1997

Internet Multicasting Services, $750,000, 1996

Sun Microsystems, $35,000, 1996

Sun Microsystems, 1992-1996

Cisco Systems, 1994-1996

NC Arts Council (Internet Poetry Archive) $3000, 1995

American College of Neurosurgery, 1994-1995

NC Arts Council Fellowship, 1980

NC Arts Council grants for Poetry Reading series, 1979-1989

The Web Server Book, Ventana Media, 1995

Developer of UNC Press' first totally electronic "book," Internet Poetry Anthology acting as editor from concept and proposal through author contact and publication

Developed courses on WAIS, general Internet Services, E-Mail, News, and UNIX commands

Paper on WAIS published in the proceeds of FAXON conference (1992)

Author of many well circulated handouts on Internet services and e-mail in the MaasInfo distribution and others

Articles and reviews of others' books of poetry have been published in various newspapers and journals including Independent, Charlotte Observer , Winston-Salem Journal

Contributing Editor with entries on Raymond Carver in the Heath Anthology of American Literature, Second Edition

Extensive literary publications (see Literary Vitae for details)

UNIX systems manager

Experienced user of and occasional creator of enhancements to Internet tools including WAIS (active participant in UNC's WAIS planning and design effort as well as modifier of SWAIS for easy ftp-like use), archie, WWW/Mosaic, gopher, MIME, extended ftp (WUARCHIVE version)

Extensive experience with Domain Name Service, all varieties of e-mail, and TCP/IP services

Experienced as a systems manager of NeXT, SGI, DEC, IBM, and Sun equipment

Experienced Macintosh user especially with AppleTalk to TCP/IP services

Reformed IBM Mainframe programmer

Campus network services coordinator