![]() He has also written for his own blog, Ftrain, since 1997, The Morning News since 2001, provided commentary for NPR’s All Things Considered from 2003–2006, and published a novel, Gary Benchley, Rock Star, with Penguin/Plume in 2005. Paul Ford worked for five years as an editor at Harper’s Magazine, where he wrote and edited for the web as well as for print, and also designed and built its website, a project that included bringing Harper’s 160-year, 80,000-article, 250,000-page archive to the web (the website remains profitable). These are just some highlights: read her complete profile, her list of activities (going back to 2005 why don’t we all publish this kind of list about ourselves?), her GitHub profile, her Wikipedia entry, and her blog, Smarterware, for more information. ![]() Fast Company named her one of the “Most Influential Women in Technology” in 20, and Wired gave her its Rave Award for blogging in 2006. She is currently the founding and lead developer for ThinkUp, “a free, open source web application” that you can use to track “all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+,” the author and publisher of Todo.txt apps (available for iOS and Android, as well as other platforms), the creator of Narrow the Gapp, “a data-driven web site about the gender pay gap” that is made with “open data, Isosceles, Bootstrap, insomnia, outrage, and hope,” and a co-host of This Week in Google on the network. Gina Trapani was the founding editor of Lifehacker and has published Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day (Wiley, 2006), Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better (Wiley, 2008), The Complete Guide to Google Wave (3ones, 2010), and Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better (Wiley, 2011) (the latter two with co-author Adam Pash). They are consistently involved in the kinds of projects that we as librarians undertake when we’re at our best: finding imaginative, meaningful ways to make as much information as possible widely available, easily accessible, and interesting. ![]() Gina Trapani and Paul Ford are programmers, interface designers, authors, editors, and broadcasters. ![]()
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