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Ich bin ein Berliner
I recently wrote about the first leg of a European trip, which found me and a team of colleagues working and exploring Geneva and it's neighboring French countryside. For the second leg of the trip, we hopped on an EasyJet and flew over to Berlin to spend a few days…
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Vague, But Exciting!
I've spent the past few weeks traveling around Europe for work. While that may sound super glamorous and exciting, it really wasn't. We worked nearly around the clock and that left very little time for exploring or sight-seeing. On a few occasions, however, we did manage to put down the…
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Vive la France
Jilly and I recently had the opportunity to spend a few days in Paris. One of the things we love to do together in a new city is set out early to walk, eat and drink our way through the unfamiliar streets. We usually tackle a different direction or neighborhood…
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Flickr Creative Commons Dataset
Let's get this out in the open: I love Flickr. I've been using the service since 2005 and I have nearly 3,000 images hosted over there. I've also been pretty honest about this love in the past, having written openly about my relationship with the platform. Flickr has had…
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Static Made v4.0
This website has gone through many iterations during its three-year life on the web. Static Made started off as a place for me to share my portfolio while seeking consulting gigs, progressed into a fairly active blog that examined technology and culture, and ultimately maintained that format when it focussed…
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Welcome to London
You can't read a marketing or technology article these days without mention of the word "data." User data, big data and structured data are all enjoying their time in the spotlight. And like their for-profit counterparts, cultural institutions are going all in on the data train. The latest institution to…