MozFest: Practicing Failure in the Newsroom

Dan Sinker & Dylan Richard

Basic premise: Saw a lot of big websites go down. This is a really stupid problem for news to have. We have a major problem if your site goes down when you’re the single source.

Need to think about how to approach this problem, in a manner of strategic thinking rather than throwing servers into it. Continue reading “MozFest: Practicing Failure in the Newsroom”

Conference Proposal: We Are All Disabled! Making Web Services Accessible for Everyone

I recently submitted this proposal to LibTechConf 2014 for a full length presentation. I already posted this on github as a gist, but thought I’d post it here. I’m considering revising this for a couple of other conference submissions that are coming up as well, so we’ll see if any of them accept it! Continue reading “Conference Proposal: We Are All Disabled! Making Web Services Accessible for Everyone”

Access 2013: It’s dangerous to go alone! How about *we* do this!?

  • Steve Marks, Nick Ruest, Graham Stewart & Amaz Taufique

Everyone has many of the same needs when looking at digital collections: digitization of collections, mixed types of content, preservation, etc. Continue reading “Access 2013: It’s dangerous to go alone! How about *we* do this!?”