According to LinkedIn, I’ve been doing my own thing, known affectionately as The Refined Story, for a year now. Who knew (besides LinkedIn, anyway) it had been that long? Now that I’ve made it this far, I suppose it’s a good time to reflect on what I’ve done, where I’ve been, and how it’s gone. […]
Author’s note: I’m building a museum! I’m working with the Washington State Jewish Historical Society to create a digital museum — essentially a way to showcase the organization’s vast troves of historical content while engaging new audiences to explain how such an organization benefits its local community. This is Episode IV (A New Hope…ahem) in a […]
Author’s note: I’m building a museum! I’m working with the Washington State Jewish Historical Society to create a digital museum — essentially a way to showcase the organization’s vast troves of historical content while engaging new audiences to explain how such an organization benefits its local community. This is episode 3 in a multipart series. In […]
Annie Crawley didn’t grow up near an ocean. The Chicago native had Lake Michigan just a few miles from her home in the city’s working-class Northwest side, but the first time she put on a scuba suit, in her early 20s, something shifted inside her. Today the ocean is Crawley’s life. Given what she calls […]
I taught a WordPress class tonight and was stymied by a simple question that I should have known the answer to. So Austin, this one’s for you: To create a page that lists all of your blog posts, in the event that you want your homepage to be a static page, do the following: Go […]
I am working with the Washington State Jewish Historical Society to help them build a digital museum and history portal. I’m chronicling my direction and strategy for the project as I go along. Now that I’ve gotten more comfortable in the office and have an idea of where to find the bathroom and emergency exits, […]
In late February I began a project to build a digital museum for the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. This is a new initiative for them — they have long had a website to represent what the organization does, and put together a project-based site a few years back based on famous and not-so-famous Jewish […]
Today, January 27, is the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. How am I supposed to feel about that? Happy? Relieved? Upset that we have to commemorate the end of such a horrific era in our world’s history? I know about this day because a friend posted a link to an article about it […]
White paper originally published June 2015. Sample datasets can be found here. The question: “In an age of social media, do comments sections still have value?” This is the question posed by Chantal Braganza in J-Source.ca, the Canadian Journalism Project, regarding the ongoing problems news sites have had with vitriolic comments and flame wars […]
Originally published June 2014 I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills With a trunkload of hundred thousand dollar bills Man came by to hook up my cable TV We settled in for the night my baby and me We switched ‘round and ‘round ‘til half-past dawn There was fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on […]