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public speaking: fear therapy 25 Aug 2013 | 09:12 pm
I joined the Smithsonian chapters of Toastmasters, partly as a way to connect with a new community and partly as the next step in my ongoing effort to conquer my fear of public speaking. People who kn...
collective intelligence 23 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
Most software today cannot be defined purely by the software itself. This new class of software requires data and a community people that create and interact with that data. This is substantially diff...
life is short 21 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
I’m back in San Francisco where I can walk my dog in the morning and drive my kid to school. I actually went shopping to buy some of that fresh California produce I missed so much when I was in DC — p...
empowering content creators with drupal 27 Jul 2013 | 06:59 pm
Bryan Braun (@bryanebraun) gave a refreshingly opinionated talk Empowering Content Creators with Drupal. Coming directly from the Ruby and Rails communities where a core value is to articulate best p...
getting started with drupal 27 Jul 2013 | 03:38 pm
Emeline Glynn and Anthony Glynn gave a helpful talk called “How to teach anyone Drupal in 7 months.” The timeline was based on their experience where Anthony, an experience Drupal developer, taught Em...
responsive design prototyping 27 Jul 2013 | 12:49 am
A Response-Able Process to Responsive Design talk by Mal Jones (@skeletonjones), Brian Verhoeven (@beverhoeven) and Corey Lafferty (@coreylafferty) introduced their agile process and a new open source...
why drupal for georgia.gov 27 Jul 2013 | 12:01 am
Nikhil Deshpande (@nikofthehill) is the Director of GeorgiaGov Interactive a group within the Georgia state government that provides services to agencies and other government organizations. Today at C...
crowdsourced transcription landscape 23 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
The following is based on an interview with Ben Brumfield, after which I did a bit of research myself, adding links and some additional references. There are 6 general areas from which people are doi...
why crowdsourced transcription? 23 Jul 2013 | 02:30 pm
I signed up to try out FromThePage as “ultrasaurus” a couple of weeks ago. It’s creator Ben Brumfield (@benwbrum) recognized me from RailsBridge and the NPR story and reached out via Twitter. Ben’s bl...
building tesseract from source 15 Jul 2013 | 03:39 pm
Thanks to the prior work of Matt Christy at eMOP, I got started building Tesseract from source (on Mac OSX 10.8.4). Here’s my slightly modified workflow: recently a makefile changed, and I need to r...
