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Jan 15, 2019
Shutdown sharing: Migrating Maine Ballot
The government is still shut down, and I’m still furloughed. In the meantime, I’m helping a fellow furloughed friend rebuild a civic website.
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Dec 29, 2018
Are content strategists the key to our digital future?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the dumpster fire we live in with tech, and I wonder if content strategists can help resolve the ethical and privacy woes we’re experiencing. It’s a lot to ask, but content strategists bring skills to tech that might just mitigate some of its worst tendencies.
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Dec 26, 2018
Shutdown sharing
Our team at the Department of the Interior is part of the government shutdown, and we don’t know how long it’s going to be. As a result, I have some time to work on posts, but in the meantime, here are two I co-wrote with team members at Interior.
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Sep 22, 2018
I’m not sure about Apple, anymore
I’ve been a devoted Apple user for 20 years, dating back to when Apple devices were relatively rare. Apple’s lineup has been uninspiring in recent years. I’ve been holding onto aging devices, and I’m considering a change.
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Aug 24, 2018
Playing with sparklines
Edward Tufte’s sparklines provide an elegantly simple way to convey trends when the individual data values aren’t the point.
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Aug 17, 2018
Another new, old film camera
My Nikon FE had to take a week off for repair. Luckily, I recently bought yet another film camera.
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Jul 26, 2018
Edward Tufte’s Presenting Data and Information course recap
“The da Vinci of data” was in Portland for a one-day course on data visualization, cartography, statistics, presentations, and more. I had high expectations; Tufte surpassed them.
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Jun 30, 2018
Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev
This film, unlike many that receive the title, is truly epic. It’s one of the few films I own, and I’ve been lucky enough to see it once on the big screen at the Portland Film Festival. A restored version is about to be released to both theaters and video.
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Jun 25, 2018
Tooling: it’s a buffet now
I have my favorite tools, and they can be a crutch. We have an absurd range of options now, and my eyes are wandering.
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May 24, 2018
Confab 2018 recap
This was my second Confab conference, and it felt (once again) unique among conferences. Confab is special, because Confab is thoughtful.