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Conference
I’m liveblogging from the WDIL web conference, conveniently held where I work. I got shanghaied into this. I just wanted to meet the Wikipedia guy, but somehow I ended up going to the entire thing. I’m...
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New Site!
It all started at the South x Southwest conference this spring. I sat behind a fellow who had written a piece of weblog software called WordPress. The very mention of WordPress made the open-source and...
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Liveblogging Fundamentos Web 2005: Part Two
One of the big questions I have about web design for accessibility is, how can I design for one audience without isolating another? Obviously, there are basic things I can do to make our web...
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My library helps Harry Potter!
Take that Voldemort! Several articles have come out in the Cornell press recently about the Macaulay Library’s huge collection of animal sounds. One of the ways we stay afloat is by licensing our...
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Reading
Hemingway’s short story collection The Snows of Kilimanjaro Various dumpster-dived magazines A guide to bird icon mapping on the Macaulay Library taxonomy tree Bust Magazine The DVD liner notes to...
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Animal Recordings. Dotcom.
Eat my educational interactives baby! The Cornell University Lab of Ornithology project I designed won second place in Science magazine’s 2006 Visualization Challenge. Plus, we were on the front page...
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Deliver my books bitch.
I tried out Cornell Library’s book-delivery service this week. A nice stack of David Foster Wallace books quickly appeared at my workplace yesterday afternoon, and I got a friendly call when they...
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Yahoo! Games picks up video game based on Macauly Library sounds
NYC game developers Large Animal Games have created a downloadable PC video game based on bird sounds and expertise provided by the Macaulay Library at Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology. Which is where I...
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An Interview with Myself
Bowing to the demands of my own powerful curiosity, I have agreed to a give an exclusive interview to myself. My publicist disagrees with my decision, but I believe I have a strong connection with...
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Oldschool Metadata
Binders of field notes sit in the common area of the Macaulay library, the audio/video library where I spent three years working as a software interface designer. These are all digitized now, but the...
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