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		<title>Say Hello to Civic Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you so much to everyone who helped us think through our re-name of TOPP Labs yesterday.  Your feedback and insights were absolutely invaluable to our process.
After a long night and day of deliberations, we&#8217;ve settled on our new name. Drumroll please&#8230; (and this is obviously unnecessary since it&#8217;s in the title of the post)
Civic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wrkng.net/2010/02/say-hello-to-civic-works/</link>
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		<title>TOPP Labs needs a new name</title>
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For the past year or so, the group at TOPP that I manage has been known as TOPP Labs.  TOPP Labs was originally chosen not because it was the best or most compelling name, but because as we were dialing back work on the OpenCore project, we needed a name that was better than &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wrkng.net/2010/02/topp-labs-needs-a-new-name/</link>
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		<title>Phone Idol: an experiment in web-enabled telephony</title>
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At work recently, we&#8217;ve been exploring the idea of integrating voice and/or SMS into our applications.  Much of what we do has to do with people responding to their physical environments &#8212; their neighborhoods and the streets and public spaces that constitute the bulk of our public experience.
So, I decided to take on a small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wrkng.net/2010/02/phone-idol-an-experiment-in-web-enabled-telephony/</link>
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		<title>Making cities easier to use</title>
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I always have a hard time explaining what we do at The Open Planning Project.  The front page of our website reads: &#8220;TOPP is a catalyst.  We empower civil society through software, media, and smart urban policy.&#8221;  While this makes sense if you think about it for a while, when I first say it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wrkng.net/2010/01/making-cities-easier-to-use/</link>
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		<title>Knowing the tone of the room</title>
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One of the toughest things I&#8217;ve encountered, as I attend meetings, speak on panels, do interviews, and go to conferences, is that you never quite know what the tone of the room will be like until you get there.  In other words, there are always a ton of different approaches you can take to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wrkng.net/2010/01/knowing-the-tone-of-the-room/</link>
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		<title>Optional scope contracts</title>
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For an upcoming project at TOPP, we&#8217;re talking about setting up an optional scope contract [PDF] &#8212; where we specify the time, cost and quality, but leave the actual scope of work open.  This approach has many advantages, which I&#8217;ll just quote from Beck &#38; Cleal&#8217;s document:


Customers can change their minds
Suppliers aren’t encouraged to sacrifice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wrkng.net/2009/12/optional-scope-contracts/</link>
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		<title>jPlayer sprites SVG</title>
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For a little side project, I&#8217;m using jPlayer, a nice jQuery-based audio player.   I wanted to skin the buttons a to suit my project, and while jPlayer does support jQuery ThemeRoller skins, I liked the basic look and feel of the standard jPlayer controls.  So, I just traced the default sprites in Illustrator in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wrkng.net/2009/12/jplayer-sprites-svg/</link>
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		<title>This makes my heart melt</title>
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Today, Theo took his first ever bite of solid food.  I get all welled up looking at pictures of him while I&#8217;m at work.
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		<link>http://wrkng.net/2009/12/this-makes-my-heart-melt/</link>
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		<title>Is _____ for you?</title>
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I get way too much spam in my inbox, even just counting things I&#8217;ve signed up for myself.  Most of it I delete, but today&#8217;s email from CoTweet stood out, and is worth mentioning.
A while back I signed up for CoTweet, just to check it out &#8212; nutshell: CoTweet lets you collaboratively monitor and manage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wrkng.net/2009/12/is-_____-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Scribefire is so awesome</title>
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I can&#8217;t say enough about ScribeFire.  It&#8217;s a Firefox add-on that gives you an in-window blogging client.  Here are just a few reasons why it&#8217;s awesome:

You&#8217;re blogging from within Firefox, and you can move among webpages while keeping your blog post editing window open.  This comes in really handy when looking for references, quoting things, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wrkng.net/2009/12/scribefire-is-so-awesome/</link>
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