I'll be at South by Southwest Interactive this weekend. If any of my readers are also attending, please drop me a message or leave a comment. I'd love to meet up. … [Read more...] about Meet me at SXSWi 2008
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Google Reads Fraktur
Yesterday, German blogger Archivalia reported that the quality of Fraktur OCR at Google Books has improved. There are still some problems, but they're on the same order of those found in books printed in Antiqua. Compare the text-only and page-image versions of Geschichte der teutschen Landwirthschaft (1800) with the text and image versions of Antigua Altnordisches Leben … [Read more...] about Google Reads Fraktur
Podcast Review: Matt Mullenweg at 2006 SF FOWA
Matt Mullenweg is an incredible speaker -- I've started going through the audio of every talk of his I can find online. His presentation at the 2006 Future of Web Apps (mp3, slides) is a review of the four projects he's worked on, and the lessons he's learned from them. It's a fantastic pep talk, and it's so meaty that I sometimes thought editing glitches had chopped out the … [Read more...] about Podcast Review: Matt Mullenweg at 2006 SF FOWA
Podcast Review: "When Communities Attack!"
As predicted earlier, real life has consumed 100% of my energy for the last month or so, so I haven't made any progress on RefineScript/The Straightstone System/curingbarn.com/ManuscriptForge. I have, however, listened to some podcasts that I think are relevant to anyone else in my situation*, so I think I'll start a series of reviews. "When Communities Attack!" was presented … [Read more...] about Podcast Review: "When Communities Attack!"
Matt Unger in the New York Times
Papa's Diary Project got a nice write up in today's New York Times. I especially like that it's filed under "Urban Studies | Transcribing". … [Read more...] about Matt Unger in the New York Times