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linking people through history
Many museums, archives and libraries are exploring Linked Open Data to make their online collections more meaningful to researchers and to the public at large. From the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands...
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Interview with Valerie Liberty of Balsamiq who recently submitted her first talk proposal. Val: My name is Valerie Liberty and I work for a small bootstrapped startup called Balsamiq Studios. Sarah: I...
View Articleinspiring student films
Last week I watched the first ever White House film festival. A couple months ago, students all across the country were invited to make short films about the technology in their classrooms or how they...
View Articlewhy more women conference speakers?
In 1997, I attended the Grace Hopper Conference for the first time. I was already quite accomplished in my career. My first startup had been acquired. I had worked as a software developer on both After...
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what is big data?
Svetlana Sicular (@Sve_Sic), Gartner Research Director, offers a Big Data roadmap (via rww article). One of the delightful surprises in her report is a definition of a data-driven enterprise that...
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origins of the smithsonian
In 1826, James Smithson wrote in his will that, if his heir were to die without children, his entire estate would go “to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name the...
View Articlelearn to code: no math required
When I learned to code, I was not very good at math and didn’t like it much. I had just started pre-algebra and struggled to make sense of abstract equations and abitrary rules that seemed to serve no...
View Articlework in government, save the world?
Working as a Presidential Innovation Fellow has changed my perspective on the US government. I still believe there’s a bureaucracy that threatens to crush us all under its weight, but I no longer see...
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civic hacking at the smithsonian
A few weeks ago, the Smithsonian American Art Musuem held the first Smithsonian hackathon as a way to include volunteers in the process of re-imagining what a kiosk of the future might be for the Luce...
View Articlestories of shitty behavior don’t make me want to leave…
It sucks to read about more shitty behavior at a tech conference. The sad truth of our society is that shitty conduct is common in every industry, especially those dominated by old power structures of...
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the evolution of the letter C
Language evolves. Spoken language evolves faster than written language, but the written language is easier to track as it leaves behind physical artifacts. The third letter of our alphabet is the...
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information is oxygen
During the Industrial Age, information was property — held by few, information required money and brought power. With the rise of the Information Age, information became water. We all need it,...
View Articlelittle rules for working life
Working in a new situation, closely with a new colleague this summer, I found myself often saying “I have a policy…” and I realized that over time I’ve create quite a few silly and some serious rules...
View Articlepioneering women in computing
When I graduated from college people would ask me, “How does it feel to be a pioneer in your field?” There are so few women in this profession that just by entering it you’re doing groundbreaking work....
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exploring glass, rough start
So I got a chance to explore Google Glass tonight. Setup took two tries, apparently it doesn’t work on 5G wifi (Kalvin found via Google search) and then we all delighted in flailing around with swipe...
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coding is the new literacy
Code literacy is not just the ability to read and write code. It is a problem-solving ability. I love to code. I love to teach people how to code, because people inevitably learn a new way to solve...
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lessons learned and future thoughts
When I was in high school, I thought we were supposed to see clearly into the future, where decisions would be made at regular intervals… Lessons Learned Future Thoughts from Sarah Allen So I began my...
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your audience is part of your UX
UX design is a lot like filmmaking. We design an experience. I was struck by how Jon Boorstin described the design practice in “Making Movies Work: Thinking Like a Filmmaker.” Our audience, their...
View Articlepublic speaking: fear therapy
I joined the Smithsonian chapters of Toastmasters, partly as a way to connect with a new community and partly as the next step in my ongoing effort to conquer my fear of public speaking. People who...
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collective intelligence
Most software today cannot be defined purely by the software itself. This new class of software requires data and a community people that create and interact with that data. This is substantially...
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