What I’ve been up to lately
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It’s been ages since I posted, and that’s kind of bad. I just wanted to draw your attention to some work-related stuff that’s pretty cool.
- Freebase, where I work, have just released full data dumps. This is important stuff, people! Freebase has long been licensed under Creative Commons (CC-BY, specifically) but although there’s been an API to get data out, there’s still been a risk that if Freebase goes away, the data will be lost. This helps alleviate that risk.
- Any of you who have Freebase accounts will probably have got an email on Monday announcing various new things. If you missed it, then you missed my screencasting debut. Three and a half minutes of yours truly’s Australian accent. My roomie, the Librarian Avenger, says I sound “all professional and shit”. Check it out.
- I should probably just point you to the Freebase blog. If you’re reading Infotropism for technical content, you’ll see what I’m up to over there. Go subscribe.
I’ve also got some conferences coming up. I’ve been asked to help moderate a panel on Troll Whispering at Web2Open here in SF. I’m particularly excited about that one because I get to meet Teresa Nielsen-Hayden of Making Light and elsewhere. And then at OSCON I’ll be joining long-time partner in crime Schwern and a bunch of others to present a panel-style tutorial on People for Geeks, a look at the various ways geeks interact and fail to interact as human beings. I suppose I should crosspost those to Geek Etiquette in fact.
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