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By bluerasberry on 2016-12-02
Since I have arrived in 2012, Consumer Reports has been in a series of management and operation shakeups related to converting from a primarily paper publication to a primarily digital service. Since moving to New York City to join CR, I have had the experience of meeting other media professionals in NYC whose observations about […]
Posted in computer, Consumer Reports, New York City | Tagged publishing
By bluerasberry on 2016-08-13
I attended the 2016 Hackers on Planet Earth conference, which was in late July 2016. At the beginning of August, it was my turn to give a speech at my Toastmasters club, and I choose to share a story that I learned at the conference. Toastmasters is a nonprofit organization which helps to organize local, […]
Posted in computer, New York City | Tagged Hackers on Planet Earth, privacy, Toastmasters, Tor
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-04
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is three of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I describe MuckRock as […]
Posted in computer, research, Wikipedia | Tagged MuckRock, request
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-04
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is one of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I present the idea […]
Posted in computer, non-profit, rights | Tagged MuckRock, request
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-10
I live in the United States and I was born in a rural area. Rural areas of the United States have a higher percentage of gun owners, and from growing up there I have native appreciation for the culture of gun rights. There was a passionate minority among the gun-owning culture who had what I […]
Posted in computer, New York City, rights | Tagged privacy
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-22
Saturday and Sunday April 20-21 I attended the annual conference of Students for Free Culture held at the New York Law School. At the end of the conference there was an organizational meeting in which the board proposed and got approval to change the name of the organization from “Students for Free Culture” to “Free […]
Posted in computer, legal, New York City, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2011-11-04
Nandan Nilekani is most famous for having been so successful as CEO of one of India’s largest software companies, Infosys. He since left a lot of business-only interests and took a cabinet-level central government position (chair of the Unique Identification Authority of India) as a person who would head the design, implementation, and regulation of […]
Posted in computer, India | Tagged identification, website
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-11
I went to this conference called “Internet Research 12” where the focus was on people using the internet to pull data. One of the keynote speakers was Mike Minello with a marketing agency called Campfire. Wow! Advertising people are fun! I had never heard this guy’s name but I was familiar with a lot of […]
Posted in computer, encounter, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged advertising, conference, hero
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-10
Seattle InfoCamp was on October 8 and 9 and I went both days. I learned a lot and consumed new ideas. I love the format of this “unconference” – how it works is that they only schedule keynote speakers and everyone attends their talks, and then on the day of the event anyone who wants […]
Posted in computer, presentation, Seattle | Tagged InfoCamp
By bluerasberry on 2011-07-30
In August I am going to a meet up organized by Wikipedia to get training to be a “campus ambassador. Wikipedia is starting to provide support for people to go out to the general public and encourage other people to use Wikipedia. This is markedly different from any other top website’s marketing strategy – here […]
Posted in computer, research, Wikipedia | Tagged ad campaign, campus ambassador