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caseyg / README.md
Created February 1, 2014 09:23 — forked from mbostock/.block

Agreement for Design and Development Services

Between Casey Gollan and [CLIENT]

Summary:

I’ll always do my best to fulfill your needs and meet your expectations, but it’s important to have things written down so that I both know what’s what, who should do what and when, and what will happen if something goes wrong. In this contract you won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. I have no desire to trick you into signing something that you might later regret. What I do want is what’s best for both parties, now and in the future.

So in short;

You got the documents. Now what?

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Congratulations! Your Freedom of Information request finally yielded a big brown envelope in the mail. You are the lucky recipient of a juicy leak. You've managed to scrape all the PDFs from that stone-age government portal. Now all you have to do is the reporting.

Would that it were so easy. Your next steps depend on what you've got and what you're trying to do. You might have one page or one million pages. You could be starting with a tall stack of paper or a CSV file or anything in between. Maybe you already know exactly what you're looking for, or maybe that anonymous tip was maddeningly non-specific. In the course of my work on the Overview document-mining software I've seen just about every problem that a journalist can have with a document-driven story. These are the tales of unreadable formats, heaps of paper, and late nights reading. This post is organized as a sort of flowchart, a series of questions you can ask

So you want your own Reading.am Twitter Bot?

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caseyg / kindlenotes-print.css
Created June 6, 2011 22:24
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caseyg / residentfaculty-memo-020113.md
Last active December 12, 2015 01:58
Memo from School of Art Faculty at Cooper Union

TO: The School of Art, The Cooper Union
FROM: Resident Faculty, The School of Art

1 February 2013
New York, NY

VOTE:
On Tuesday, December 13, 2012 the Faculty of the School of Art voted to support the following statement to forward to Dean Bos that was prepared and voted on a week earlier by a quorum representing the resident faculty of the School of Art.

We, the undersigned, constituting a quorum of the resident faculty:

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