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Autonomy, packet size, friction, fanout, and velocity Debuggable explanations Curating the Studs Terkel archive GitHub for English teachers How to rewrite a press release: a step-by-step guide The Velvet Bandit’s COVID series Subtracting devices What happened to simple, basic web hosting? Appreciating “Just Have a Think” Capture the rain Life in the neighborhood Remembering Diana The (appropriately) quantified self My own personal AWS S3 bucket Query like it’s 2022 The Postgres REPL Metabase as a lightweight app server Notes for an annotation SDK Working with interdependent Postgres functions and materialized views Working in a hybrid Metabase / Postgres code base Postgres functional style Postgres set-returning functions that self-memoize as materialized views Postgres and JSON: Finding document hotspots (part 1) pl/python metaprogramming The Tao of Unicode Sparklines A beautiful power tool to scrape, clean, and combine data Working with Postgres types pl/pgsql versus pl/python? Here’s why I’m using both to write Postgres functions. A virtuous cycle for analytics Working With Intelligent Machines Dear background mind: please think about Postgres and Clojure Acknowledgement of uncertainty The paradox of abundance Original memories The Modesto Pile A wider view The New Freshman Comp The 3D splendor of the Sonoma County landscape My print edition superpower Continental drift How and why to tell your story online, revisited The Image of Postgres Why public phones still exist Moonstone Beach Breakdown Learning analytics for annotated courses A good way to encourage voters Robert Plomin on heritability How you can help build the fever map Controlling a browser extension with puppeteer Web components used in the ClinGen app Products and Capabilities Digital sweatshops then and now “It’s not your fault, mom.” Walking the Kortum Trail Why Maine embraces immigration The Woodard projection Don’t just Google it! First, let’s talk! My new library superpower Designing for least knowledge Highlighting passages doesn’t aid my memory, but speaking them does A small blog neighborhood hiding in plain sight Where’s my Net dashboard? The reengineering of three California lakes Renaming Hypothesis tags Letters to Mr. Wilson’s Museum of Jurassic Technology Searching across silos, circa 2018 Annotation-powered apps: A “Hello World” example Annotating on, and with, media Annotations are an easy way to Show Your Work Investigating ClaimReview Open web annotation of audio and video How to improve Wikipedia citations with Hypothesis direct links Annotating Web Audio Syndicating annotations Really, AT&T? Welcome to the Sapiezoic Fact-checking Naomi Klein’s “No Is Not Enough” Thoughts on Audrey Watters’ “Thoughts on Annotation” Dumb servers for personal clouds Celebrating Infrastructure Weaving the annotated web Do Repeat Yourself, With Variations Dwelling in the zone of evidence How shared vocabularies tie the annotated web together How annotation layers define “segments of interest” for new kinds of applications Componentware Revisited A toolkit for fact checkers Marshalling the evidence Bird-dogging the web Reading and writing for our peers From PDF to PWP: A vision for compound web documents Customer service and human dignity A chorus of IT recipes Augmenting journalism I get to be a blogger Towards accessible annotation: a prototype and some questions What I Learned While Building an App for the Canvas Learning Management System Copyright can’t stop annotation of government documents Watching animals Thoughts in motion, annotated Annotation is not (only) web comments Owning and sharing your words Liminal thinking at scale When it’s cold in New England, thoughts turn to alternative home heating Abomination and progress: A schizophrenic Saudi timeline Organic hydro-engineering Humane local transportation Faithful reanimation of born-digital artifacts The downtown space station Parking in San Francisco Passenger rail in the North Bay Facts of Flight A new lease on life A Labor Day meditation on the future of work “It is always quiet enough to talk” Farewell to bookmarklets My last run Adventures in annotation Annotating the web: my new job Can Santa Rosa become a city that thinks like the web? Remembering Bob Stout On getting paid (or not) to write Fringe benefits of the attention economy Online scientific collaboration: the sequel Another Internet miracle! A network of neighbors A federated Wikipedia Thoughts in motion How Federated Wiki neighborhoods grow and change FedWiki for collaborative analysis of data Federated Wiki for teaching and learning basic composition Individual voices in the Federated Wiki chorus TypeScript Successes and Failures Skype Translator will (also) be a tool for language learners Human/machine partnership for problems otherwise Too Hard Where’s the IFTTT for repetitive manual text transformation? Why shouting won’t help you talk to a person with hearing loss Alternative sources of data on police homicides The Church of One Tree: A civic parable The Nelson diaspora Swimming against the stream Getting the digital autonomy we pay for We are the media Let’s talk There was no pumpkin riot in Keene How recently has the website been updated? GitHub Pages For The Rest Of Us Voyage of the Captain Kirk Floating Arms Keyboard Chair A web of agreements and disagreements A cost-effective way to winterize windows 3D Elastic Storage, part 3: Five stars to U-Pack! 3D Elastic Storage, part 2 Not the link Zillow was looking for 3D Elastic Storage For sale by owner The ebb and flow of curbside free stuff Tech’s inequality paradox Business registration as a framework for local data Crowdsourcing local data the right way Monsoon perspective Things in the era of dematerialization Trails near me Turning it off and on again How Thali could make the Smallest Federated Wiki even smaller Mapping the decentralization movement A world without hearsay Jeremy Dorn’s excellent JSON forms editor Everything is amazing and I am grateful Can we tether email to “the truth”? Joint custody of data Multi-persona architectures, then and now Fellow travelers: Thali and telehash The P in P2P is People Shiny old things The next thing Circular progress What is a public information officer? It’s time to engineer some filter failure Names that mean things, names that do things Hiroshimas, light bulbs, and touchstone facts 3D printing isn’t the digital literacy that libraries most need to teach Spot the space station My superpower: 3-way calling Opting out of line-of-business software Podcasts for the blind Web servers and web clients working together The everyday exchange of virtual objects The Internet of Things That Used To Work Better MOOCs need to be user innovation toolkits Single points of failure Friendly firewalls A wearable physical therapy prescription Why encrypt? Because (for now) we can. Tacit knowledge, abundant examples, and deliberate practice If we want private communication we can have it Why I subscribe to the Ann Arbor Chronicle (part 2) Changeable minds Learning to walk (again) Upcoming is downgoing, Elm City is ongoing Community calendar workshop next week in Newport News Walled fields of knowledge Networks of first-class peers Indie theaters and open data Let’s think about what we’re doing right Flash Fill: Text wrangling for non-programmers Homicide rates in context Scientific storytelling Check your assumptions Why Johnny can’t syndicate (and what we can do about it) Friday talk at the University of Michigan How John McPhee structures stories from his notes Heating as a service: Xylogen points the way Calendar feeds are a best practice for bookstores Harvard vs MIT Computational thinking and life skills Why I subscribe to the Ann Arbor Chronicle The personal cloud series A great disturbance in the force Thought leadership at the Ann Arbor District Library “Carol, meet Mrs. D; Mrs. D, meet Carol” (An ode to 3-way calling) Food safety and information safety revisited Food safety, information safety Where have all the bloggers gone? Ideas Calendar webrings Networks of cities Let’s give every fact its own home page on the web A general model for community information management The free rider solution Concerned about smart meter privacy? Richard Stallman is looking for someone to lead the charge. Why not tip for excellent online customer service? Hours, days, who’s counting? Meta-tools for exploring explanations Searching for Andy: an Ob-Platte puzzle Jatoba at Waxy’s on Saturday night: A case study in data provenance and syndication A question for Facebook developers Dackolupatoni Putting her money where the innovative university’s mouth is Tags for democracy Biofeedback treatment for Raynaud’s: a progress report A civic scorecard for public calendars The Personal Cloud Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 3: Taxonomy and folksonomy Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 2: Portable tags Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 1: General and specific Energy literacy The memory palace Another way to think about geeks and repetitive tasks When 2.0: Scheduling the Internet of things Teaching is about conveying a way of thinking Forgotten knowledge Harry Tuttle’s busy month Marine mammals, Sorcerer’s Apprentices, and authoritative publication of data Ann Arbor’s public schools are thinking like the web Long live Harry Tuttle! X-WR-TIMEZONE considered harmful? The long tail of the iCalendar ecosystem Semantic web 101: Say what you mean I want to be the customer, not the product Beating the drum for Delicious Why Sears doesn’t want you to think computationally Be authoritative to stay DRY Learning to automate work The unaugmented mind Distracting chatter is useful. But thanks to RSS (remember that?) it’s optional. A California-sized solar panel 3D printing and human skill Barefoot running: do we really need an app for that? Can elmcity and Delicious continue their partnership? (2nd try) Practicing for an Ignite talk A Bretton Woods solstice Dream slack key for Father’s Day Garden gates can swing two ways Liberating the Swamp Bats calendar Ernest Hebert’s William Faulkner rant Syndicating Facebook events A new appreciation of security theater Awakened grains of sand Can elmcity and Delicious continue their partnership? The pleasures of small airports HTTP Status Codes: The Teen Years My fave new cool app: PowerNow Installing TED (The Energy Detective): a tale of two cultures Pub/sub networking for enterprise awareness WolframAlpha and Nuclear Boy vs Anderson Cooper and Soledad O’Brien Web thinkers are not confused by shiny new things A tale of two dams “If you don’t own the ground you stand on…” What happens before Yahoo! acquires you? Fear not, book lovers. The future of marginalia is bright! AOL’s Patch enshrines the event anti-pattern Seven ways to think like the web Inviting Toronto to think like the web Location-tagged events in elmcity hubs The new oral tradition How George Bailey can save Delicious Using sparkcasts to enhance step-by-step instructions Democratizing design: why Eric von Hippel would love Firebug Automatic shifting and manual steering on the information superhighway Upcoming talk at the Berkman Center Refining the elmcity event viewer My story about the local web Hamlet’s BlackBerry and Jon’s WP7 Components, pipes, and effective search Brainworms and perfect pitch An unforgettable lesson The why and how of the elmcity project Hijack my DNS and I’ll be annoyed. Blame me for it and I’ll go ballistic. Geodesic tomato suspension dome Attack of the giant sunflower Web spreadsheets for humans and machines The network is the keyboard: Patterns of scalable communication The arrow of WordPress time John Faughnan nails the spec for the defensive cycle-cam Keene Public Library joins Flickr Commons To PIP (picture-in-picture video) or not to PIP? Defensive surveillance for cyclists Where are the Windows 7 tablets? Well, I’ve got one. Visible demand for shoe repair Want fast, cheap, and ultra-high-res images of the Gulf oil spill? Go fly a kite! How do you find pages that cite a permalink? Patrick saves the day (maybe) Permalinks and hashtags for city council agenda items How to manage private and public calendars together Facts, relations, linked data, and the US shadow economy “Every package has its own home page on the web!” The web of trust, circa 2010 Facebook is now an elmcity event source Talking with Linda Stone about coherent breathing and human performance Surprise! Your Facebook visibility isn’t what you thought it was. ottawatrash.ca: Nice! Now let’s make it unnecessary Talking with Herbert Van de Sompel about a web that remembers PowerPivot + Gridworks = Wow! The voice of Frederick Brooks The “it just works” kind of efficiency Jazz in Madison, Wisconsin: A case study in curation How to create a Pivot visualization of a WordPress blog Talking with Scott Rosenberg about Say Everything, Dreaming in Code, and MediaBugs A Pivot visualization of my WordPress blog Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers OData and PubSubHubbub: An answer and a question YesAndNoSQL Joining web namespaces A geek anti-manifesto Atul Gawande on why heroes use checklists Hey Honda, I paid for that data! Talking with Duncan Wilson about architecture in the age of networked services Upcoming talk at Kynetx Impact Talking with Eric Frank and Jon Williams about Flat World Knowledge, a commercial publisher of open textbooks Why the Maya used a 260-day calendar Visualizing the names of your Twitter lists Uses of pattern language in the urban century Shiny new uses for familiar old things Producing and consuming OData feeds: An end-to-end example Listen, talk, breathe Talking with Sal Khan about YouTube tutoring as guerilla public service OData for collaborative sense-making “That’s an engineer’s solution!” We = (what we eat) – (what they eat) Learning lessons from PLATO A reading strategy for low-vision users of SmartView Xtend Talking with Greg Wilson about software carpentry Two interpretations of US health care cost vs. life expectancy Talking with Doug Day about the iCalendar validator Contextual clothing for naked transparency Carbon theater Gov2.0 transparency: An enabler for collaborative sense-making Talking with Howard Eglowstein about micro-CHP and the maker renaissance Computational thinking and energy literacy Talking with Randy Julian about bioinformatics A new validator for iCalendar Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Discipline Kill-A-Watt, WolframAlpha, and the itemized electric bill Talking with Martin Hepp about solving the paradox of choice SQL Azure “Vidalia”: Practical translucency OData is grease to cut data friction Talking with Gavin Bell about Building Social Web Applications Where is the money going? Talking with Marco Barulli about zero-knowledge online password management A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database More Python and C# idioms: Finding the difference between two lists To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start Restructuring expert attention to revive the lost art of personal customer service Allman Brothers, Oct 14: Huntington or Nashville? A parable about syndication and provenance. Talking with Daniel Debow about using Rypple to open the Johari Window More visualization of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Freebase Recovering forgotten methods of construction Visualizing Nobel Peace Prize winners in Freebase Magic glasses and magic projectors: Private versus public augmentation of experience Talking with Victoria Stodden about Science Commons Querying mobile data objects with LINQ Talking with Stefano Mazzocchi about reconciling web naming systems Speaking and writing webscale identifiers Familiar idioms in Perl, Python, JavaScript, and C# Talking with Hugh McGuire about BookOven Ask and ye may receive, don’t ask and ye surely will not Talking with Kingsley Idehen about mastering your own search index The joy of webscale identifiers FriendFeed for project collaboration Purple Numbers for PDF documents? elmcity and WordPress MU: Questions and answers Two projects for civic-minded student programmers That word “events”: It does not mean what you think it means Curation, meta-curation, and live Net radio Talking with Cathy Marshall about tags, digital archiving, and lifestreams Polymath = user innovation Talking with Mike Dunn about practical uses of semantic technology Topical event hubs Why we need an XML representation for iCalendar Late July in Toronto: DemoCamp and Science 2.0 Tinker to Evers to Chance, Tripit to Dopplr to Facebook Talking with Peter O’Toole about gathering clinical data and sharing medical knowledge Hat tip to Joshua Allen’s Better Living Through Software More fun than herding servers The civic dashboard Understanding Wikipedia notability Strategic choices for calendar publishers Influencing the production of public data New England still too wet. Escaping to sunny Old England. It’s the headings, stupid!!! Endangered languages and linguistic best practices When does afternoon begin? Bulk search-and-replace for blog entries Rebooting my 2002-2006 archive Scribbling in the margins of iCalendar Replaying history More usefully cool stuff from Stamen Categorizing events Talking with Jamie Heywood about PatientsLikeMe Useful feedback from old friends and new friends A conversation with Eric Rodenbeck about usefully cool design and engineering IronPython and the elmcity project: Together again Talking with Philip Rosedale about organizational dynamics An information mapping puzzle Dilbert might like the crazy way we do calendars online. But Scott Adams prefers a sane alternative. An essay for my fellow University of Michigan alumni Status of my InfoWorld archive Talking with Joan Peckham about computational thinking Name this antique gardening tool Extracting iCalendar feeds from embedded Google calendars MySpace + FuseCal = Awesome Proximity search in Google and Live? Curating softball schedules Data-driven career discovery Mashing up LibraryThing, FuseCal, and RSS2HTML to create iCalendar feeds for LibraryThing events What is the RSS of calendars? A different take on ‘green’ Keene Finding and connecting social capital A power tool for calendar curators Talking with Erin Kenneally about digital forensics in a connected world Community calendar curation: The startup guide Stepping into the river with Heraclitus A conversation with Seth Grimes about the voice of the customer iCalendar validation: status report Facts and friction Competing for the creative class, revisited A conversation with Andrew Rasiej about activating student sysadmins, rebooting America, and designing for abundance An assistive technology success story: The Humanware magnifier A conversation with Phil Windley about contextualized browsing A new answer to an old question A conversation with Andrew Turner about data and design in the geospatial realm Revisiting FuseCal and Upcoming The Floating Arms keyboard Searching for calendar information Calling calendar curators Hosted lifebits meets infobus Cornell is WIRED! A demonstration calendar for Ann Arbor, Michigan Collaborative curation as a service A conversation with Mark Baker about RESTful principles Yes We Scan: Carl Malamud for Public Printer of the US Introducing SpokenWord.org Using the Azure table store’s RESTful APIs from C# and IronPython Time, space, and data A conversation with Andy Singleton about distributed software development The iCalendar validation project A conversation with Phil Long about teaching and learning Alternative logging for Azure services A conversation with Andy Boutin about Pellergy’s oil-to-pellet furnace retrofit Unifying HTTP success and failure in .NET Transparency data in motion A conversation with Bob Jennings about new ways to heat with wood SOA: Slouching towards Bethlehem Transparency trends (continued): A data-wrangling tale Transparency trends Fuel prices, pageviews, sparklines A conversation with @psnh about the ice storm, social media, and customer service Central heating with a wood gasification boiler Test-driven development in the Azure cloud iCalendar validation issue #3: Quoted-printable vs HTML iCalendar validation issues #1 and #2: blank lines, PRODID and VERSION A conversation with Jeff Jonas about connecting dots Feed validation revisited: The parallel universe of iCalendar feeds Visible Workings (redux) Databasing trusted feeds with del.icio.us Lightweight event syndication with trusted feeds Azure calendar aggregator: Part 1 My rationalization for buying a Wii Balance Board A recipe for industrial transformation Two IronPythonic spreadsheets Wiring the web (redux) Mind, hands, and heart: John Leeke on Internet video for sharing knowledge about historic home preservation IronPython/Azure status report Carl Hewitt on cloud computing, scalable semantics, and Wikipedia Visual numeracy for collective survival Twine, del.icio.us, and event-driven service integration Where the oil comes from: Not from where I thought Hello World When the lights go on at the New York Times, our work can start My upcoming World Usability Day talk For Granicus, transparent democracy is just business as usual URI, XML, HTTP, REST, and the Azure Services Platform Kim Cameron’s excellent adventure PyAWS, Fermat’s Last Theorem, and search diversity Pumpkins with Oomph Why and how to blurb your social bookmarks Finding faces Tracks4Africa: Mapping and annotating Africa’s remote eco-destinations Dual search revisited An Internet-to-TV feed with IronPython, XAML, and WPF Celebrating iCalendar’s 10th anniversary: The best is yet to come This American Life’s finest hours Metasearching the web with OpenSearch Small steps forward for calendar syndication A conversation with Howard Bloom about collective learning, group selectionism, and the global brain Meme tracking with Twitter and Timeline The Congressional content management system My Perspectives series: breakage and workaround Old-fashioned and newfangled plumbing Socializing the analysis of the socialization of banking Scott Prevost explains Powerset’s approach to semantic search Ground truthing Catch-22 Future shock, cowpaths, and Government 2.0 What is an Internet operating system? DayJet at the end of its runway Biomedical initiatives at Microsoft Research Why didn’t phonetic audio indexing prevail? Jock Gill on energy, information, technology, networks, markets, and society (part 1) Swim-lane visualization of security protocols That first step can be a doozy A conversation with the founders of Princeton’s Center for Information Techology Policy Silicon-based flow control for smarter/cheaper air conditioning and refrigeration Annotating DNS with personal information 21st century Yankee ingenuity The World Bank’s web of data could be webbier World Bank data now available through APIs Freebase, Wikipedia, Powerset Activating the web: One programming language or many? New England’s biomass-fueled home heating future, part 2 Trident: A workflow system for doing data-intensive science with reproducible results Specifying exceptions to recurring calendar events The continuum of access styles in the emerging Microsoft cloud Motivating people to write the semantic web: A conversation with David Huynh about Parallax Collective mind probes The “myth” of free standards Paving the cowpaths that lead to Government 2.0 A tale of two cities: crime reports in San Francisco and Washington DC Should I visualize more weather data, or just build an ark? Seeing more Olympics means seeing the Olympics differently A space elevator might arrive sooner, and cost less, than you think Using technology to explain technology Behind the scenes: podium training for men’s gymnastics in Beijing Social dimensions of P2P and the semantic web Lee LeFever reflects on the CommonCraft style A conversation with Tony Hey about Microsoft External Research and the new breed of e-scientists Overcoming synthetic voice shock A conversation with Joshua Tauberer about GovTrack Kudos for MAPLight’s visualization of Congressional activity Net-enhanced democracy: Amazing progress, solvable challenges John Faughnan’s amazing Outlook hack (and why it matters) How to wire up a timer-triggered WPF event handler in IronPython Dan Bricklin on becoming a Happy Caster Homophily, anti-recommendation, and Driveway Moments Will people understand and embrace the right identity systems? Maybe yes! How the WorldWide Telescope works More ways to turn Internet feeds into TV feeds From seeing to hearing: A conversation with Susan Gerhart about assistive technologies for the sight-impaired From PowerPoint to IronPython/XAML Turning Internet feeds into TV feeds A conversation with Jean-Claude Bradley about open notebook science and the educational uses of Second Life The story of the WorldWide Telescope A conversation with George Hripcsak about electronic health records and clinical truth Future of the Conversations Network exchange2ical available on CodePlex A quiet retreat from the busy information commons A conversation with Harry Lewis and Ken Ledeen about technology, society, and Hedy Lamarr Serious uses for YouTube’s new popup video feature Questions for Exchange admins about public calendars A conversation with John Buckman about Nazi invaders from the moon (and other things) LiveMesh and FeedSync: software “above the level of a single device” Drafting on bloggers In search of an ICS publishing component for Exchange Free online calendar publishing, part 3: Apple iCal A conversation with Greg Wilson about doing HPC right Free online calendar publishing, part 2: Google Calendar Free online calendar publishing, part 1: Outlook Caroline Arms on digital formats for long-term preservation Could there be an association of URL-shortening services? Semi-structured database records for social tagging A conversation with Gabriel Dance and Shan Carter about interactive graphics at the New York Times Where is WinFS now? Quentin Clark explains. Computational thinkers make good body hackers A conversation with Lucas Gonze about discovering, sharing, and experiencing music That word, syndication, I do not think it means what you think it means Calendar software is natural for reading, but not for writing A conversation with Janis Dickinson about citizen science Stonewall Farm, Darby Brook Farm, and the collaborative curation of data Negotiating shared responsibility for community information A conversation with Ray Ozzie about Live Mesh “We posted weekly.pdf to the website. Isn’t that good enough?” A conversation with Deepak Singh about science in the web 2.0 era Panoramic Westmoreland Radio commentary on citizen use of public data Syndication of rules versus syndication of data A conversation with Phil Libin about EverNote’s new memex Making sense of C02 data: A scientific collaboration Parsing human-written date and time information Office XML: The long view My close encounter with the Hannaford data breach A conversation with Tim Spalding about LibraryThing Cluster computing, with large data, for the classroom Revisiting the InfoWorld metadata explorer Rediscovering LibraryThing A conversation with Carl Malamud about access to public information Perspectives: Understanding CardSpace with Vittorio Bertocci A close call: photos lost, then found When the LazyWeb gets too lazy A conversation with Ward Cunningham about visible workings and aboutus.org Missing the cluetrain Perspectives, a new interview series, launches today Ann Arbor’s public library is a beacon of progress Linking to excerpts from the MIX keynotes A conversation with Michael Lenczner about community wifi in Montreal Automation and accessibility in Silverlight and IE8 Permalinking the Hard Rock Memorabilia exhibit WebSlices can help popularize feed syndication Ward Cunningham’s implementation of Brian Marick’s “Visible Workings” A conversation with Adrian Holovaty about EveryBlock.com Where can I subscribe to a running-shoe-replacement service? A conversation with Valdis Krebs about social network analysis Code4Lib 2008 HealthVault protocols will be released under the Open Specification Promise Want to bootstrap the data web? Make batch data entry easier for civilians. Overcoming data friction A conversation with Joel Selanikio about cellphones and SMS in developing countries Popfly and Pipes We are all watchers now Mythbusting the ‘Google generation’ report The anxiety (and celebration) of influence A conversation with Phil Windley about online reputation Why oil heat? Because it’s local! Undisclosed location A conversation with Stefano Mazzocchi about Cocoon and SIMILE Doc Searls: It’s too hard to find and share the coolness of Live Maps Alf Eaton shows how to gather scientific reaction to open access scientific articles Hacking the noosphere Bloggers talk to bloggers, scientists talk to scientists A conversation with Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg about Many Eyes .aspx considered harmful The personal service management console Syndication and accountability CUSEC 2008 A conversation with Neil Giarratana about high-tech business in small-town New England New contexts for old ideas The transparent supply chain Managing service relationships Socially innovative uses of technology: a year of podcasts Omnidirectional (or public, or broadcast) identity A conversation with Richard Wallis about the Talis semantic web platform From oil to wood pellets: New England’s home heating future The itemized electric bill Collaboration plus productivity I am (not) Spock “The discovery of irregular patterns by group noticings” Technical mastery requires social innovation The psychic burden of online registration The wisdom of which crowd? How HD Photo will make happy snappers even happier Discovering versus teaching principles of social information management Professional services for professional blogs Matt MacLaurin on creative expression with Boku From Simple Sharing Extensions to FeedSync Simile: Semantic web mashups for the rest of us Passwordless MyOpenID A conversation with Greg Whisenant about CrimeReports.com Is software too soft? CardSpace for the rest of us More simple, single-purpose screen sharing Excellent debate visualizer at NYTimes.com Your winnings, sir Social information management What would a civilian do? Kucinich in Keene Competing for the creative class Why Guinness tastes better in Ireland TSA to Aer Lingus: Hello? Drizzly Dublin A conversation with Gardner Campbell about the digital imagination Beth Kanter’s birthday card to screencasting Jing’s the thing “It won’t repro” Owning your namespace From screencasting to automation Multilingual idioms A conversation with Dick Hardt about British Columbia’s digital identity initiative Processing a WordPress export file with PowerShell Stocks and flows in online communication: another hat tip to Jerry Michalski NoScript A day at the Wharton School PowerShell data munging, revisited A conversation with Beth Jefferson about reinventing the library catalog Advice for digital immigrants PowerShell data munging “This is a characteristic associated with Lithium Ion batteries” Nuclear power mind-changing New home for LibraryLookup bookmarklet generator Listas is (also) a web-based outliner A conversation with Mike Caulfield about BlueHampshire.com A conversation with Sean Nolan, chief architect for HealthVault Professional blogs by regular folks Entity extraction everywhere The peer-to-peer pendulum A conversation with Stuart Weibel about the nature and uses of bibliographic metadata Immigrants, natives, orienteers The Keene Pumpkin Festival “Truth is in the file” redux: From Photo Gallery to Flickr Can mom verify a HealthVault application? In praise of neologizing Want to help improve LibriVox? FAQ for podcast (and screencast) interviewees The once and future university Twitter and Facebook: It all depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is A conversation with Dmitri Williams and Jake Vickers about World of Warcraft as a leadership laboratory ITConversations and SIConversations: Better together Combining tagspaces Tirekicking HealthVault Remixing the library A conversation with Ned Gulley about the MATLAB Programming Contest A new way for TSA to screw up your travel day Will HeathVault help create a market for translucent medical records? I hope so. Tagging and foldering The NSF’s DataNet initiative Global Research Library 2020 Mystery outlet at O’Hare First look at Resolver, an IronPython-based spreadsheet Screencasting and scripting Talk faster! No, slower! Silverlight for screencasters A conversation with Beth Kanter about social software and non-profit organizations The fourth platform Appreciating Common Craft’s “paperworks” sketchcasts A conversation with Ed Iacobucci about the reinvention of air travel Tools of the trade The blurred line between personal information management and publishing A conversation with Rohit Khare about syndication-oriented architecture Automation and accessibility The social scripting continuum XML documents: flavors versus essence SharePoint, IronPython, and another lesson in the virtue of laziness A conversation with Barbara Aronson about global access to medical journals Collaborative mapping and computational thinking Social networks then and now How wind works Two turns Hosted lifebits scenarios A conversation with Greg Elin about the Sunlight Foundation Unexamined software idioms #1: Linking in rich text editors MuVo woes A conversation with Kentaro Toyama about Microsoft Research India Transmission of tacit knowledge: teaching what we don’t know that we know PodScreenMathSlideSketchCasting Excel geocoding adventures Internet history: the missing 15 years Hugh McGuire interviews me about citizen access to public data A conversation with Lewis Shepherd about social software in the intelligence community Waiting for my air taxi Old tunes, new opportunities The police station effect A geographic analysis of local crime data Can social tagging improve email? Chris Gemignani recreates a New York Times infographic in Excel A conversation with Moira Gunn about BioTech Nation Beautiful code, expert minds Behind the scenes: The editing of a screencast Henrik Frystyk Nielsen on the RESTful architecture of Microsoft Robotics Studio Nobody goes swimming any more A conversation with Ken Banks about text-message-based networking in Africa A conversation with John Shewchuk about BizTalk Services and the Internet Service Bus What’s easy, and what’s hard, about getting from Excel to a GeoRSS-enabled mashup Revisiting language evolution in del.icio.us A message for library catalog vendors A conversation with Ted Okada about the work of Microsoft Humanitarian Systems A conversation with Joel Selanikio about collecting public health data in developing countries New expectations (and new opportunities) for stewards of public data Data analysis as performance art A conversation with Timo Hannay about the scientific web Show me the data A conversation with Pablo Castro about Astoria’s RESTful data services Data finds data, then people find people Simon’s laws of local blogging Social network analysis in Facebook Accounting for page popularity A conversation with John Willinsky about public participation in the creation of knowledge Mashing up ITConversations and SIConversations RESTful Live Contacts for Internet-scale social networking Sitemaps, segmentation, and streaming Screencasting for public speakers Crossroads Mall Thursday night A long-delayed response to Beth Kanter’s questions about screencasting A conversation with Jeannette Wing about computational thinking How do I know this person? Through the Web! Facebookizing the Web, Webifying Facebook Exeter Hospital gets WiFi right Airplanes, cars, sticks and stones: Brian Beckman on the physics of simulation Configuration debugging for normal folks Interactive data: The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care points the way A conversation with Tessa Lau about Project Koala Language lessons Building conceptual bridges to a new media world WS-JustRight revisited Commercial software and social innovation The Broad Street pump and the Keene police station A conversation with Bill Buxton about design thinking Unifying the experience of online identity A conversation with Doug Kaye about PodCorps RESTful Web Services WebJay closing in June Hosted lifebits Trusting, but verifying, your teenager’s use of the Internet A conversation with Allen Wirfs-Brock about the history of Smalltalk and the future of dynamic languages Motivation, context, and citizen analysis of government data Shared navigation of online bureaucracies Comparing notes on speaker preparation Internet access adventures in New Zealand’s south island For photographic storytelling, cameras are becoming optional Amazing lifehack: Pack a starter pistol to deter luggage theft Annotating online maps for offline use Wellington bound Happy Snappers and Happy Casters A conversation with Gent Hito about RSSBus and the data web Tagging is declarative programming for everybody Screencasting and map exploration Watching Anders Hejlsberg reinvent the relationship between programs and data A conversation with John Lam about the dynamic language runtime, Silverlight, and Ruby A conversation with Art Rhyno about library information systems and community newspapers Web standards and IE at MIX Multitasking tradeoffs: individual versus group productivity Rewriting the enriched web Greasemonkeying with IE A conversation with Hugh McGuire about LibriVox Darwin’s rhetorical strategy Talking to everyone: the framing of science and technology Doug Kaye’s PodCorps launches today Podcast feeds for LibriVox A conversation with Bob Glushko and AnnaLee Saxenian about the interdisciplinary science of service design Skype podcasting revisited Too busy to blog? Count your keystrokes. Online incunabula It isn’t (yet) all about the Internet Exploring Office Live History or technology: Which is the better defense of identity? Both. Simple and automatic services Online accountability and the threat of impersonation A conversation with Bill Crow about HD Photo A conversation with Phil Libin about REAL ID The essence of openness Ink by the barrel Authenticated RSS feeds Koranteng! Like a moth to the Freebase flame Thinking about my InfoWorld friends Semantic web as social enjoyment Citizen ads, no thanks. Citizen analysis, yes please. I have met the enemy and it is tribalism Rich application engines and user innovation Friday podcast moving to IT Conversations Art Rhyno’s science project Direct-to-camcorder screen recording Installing Flash on Vista Greasing the skids for network travelers: Burger Kings versus ATM machines GoDaddy’s bad buffness day Primary sources? You don’t need ’em. Trust us. 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Hi Jon, did you ever finish the research into McPhee’s process? (I saw your 5 year old post, am currently travelling in Japan, limited to iPhone for cons)
I did my PhD research into authoring methods and wrote an enormously complicated tool for my thesis project. I’m now looking at writing a very minimal replacement and was inspired by the New Yorker article on McPhee. Would be interested in corresponding if you are likewise. Cheers, Murray
He didn’t want to discuss it.