Awards are flying around like crazy these days. My dear friend Erica (& team at the Lab of Ornithology at Cornell) recently won a second place award for interactive multimedia design from Science magazine. It’s a cool app to visualize animal sounds while watching video and listening to the animal:
The user can listen […]
The DNC recently found a flaw in the Republican online organizing tool GOP.com (which I wrote about before) that exposed private information about individuals via their “precinct organizer” interface. The National Review published the press release.
I’m bothered a little that this security flaw existed. Whenever a site collects personal information it should take […]
In undergrad at U of M, I took a course from Ian Robinson that became part of the Labor & Global Change Program. Over Spring Break, we visited Nogales, Mexico, toured a Ford factory, a maquila and stayed in the “colonias” (i.e., shantytowns) that most workers live in near the border.
With our new clarity […]
This is part 2 of a three part series: [ Part 1 | Part 3 ]
For a few weeks we chugged along happily with Google Analytics (still supplemented with pphlogger because Analytics only updates every 24 hours). When we started working with a search engine optimization company (to help our search engine results & […]
My buddy George won the first Pizzigati Prize For Software in the Public Interest for his work on the CitizenSpeak project. (I suspected he may have won when, some time after the prize contenders were announced, he began asking me questions about exactly how he ended up working on it.) He was up […]
This is part 1 of a three part series: [ Part 2 | Part 3 ]
At Pando, our primary goal at the moment is to get our app into the hands of all of the people that need it. Because it solves an increasingly common problem (”how do I send these big files around?”), […]
It’s been quiet around these parts lately. We’ve been busy enjoying the last gasps of summer and doing a lot of traveling. Evidence via Flickr:
My 10 year class reunion
Michigan Beer Festival - Lizz and I have gone every year we’ve been together
My parents threw us an awesome engagement party
Lizzie surprised us with a visit
We […]
