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Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). Ford's 30,000-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. Paul was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].
 
== Wendy Hsu ==
 
Wendy Hsu is a researcher, strategist, and educator who engages with hybrid research and organizing agendas for equality in arts, technology, and civic participation. A former ACLS Public Fellow, Hsu currently works as the digital strategist of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, providing research and strategy to redesign the department’s data and knowledge architecture. Hsu is also the founder of Lab at DCA, a city staff innovation incubator.
 
Hsu has published on digital ethnography, sound-based pedagogy, public humanities, open access publishing, Asian American indie rock, Yoko Ono, Taqwacore, and Bollywood. Their academic research on street sound cultures in postcolonial Taiwan focuses on the urban underclass experience of mobility and low-resource technology. Their civic sound data project [http://lalistens.org/ LA Listens] explores the sensory, social, and ecological aspects of Los Angeles streets by providing a creative and engagement platform for community-oriented artists, planners, and organizers. Most recently, Hsu led the maker collective Movable Parts through [http://movableparts.org/projects/karaoke-rickshaw/ Movable Karaoke], a Metro-funded project that evokes and explores the collective mobility experience in LA.
 
[http://beingwendyhsu.info/ http://beingwendyhsu.info/]
== David S. H. Rosenthal ==
[http://geneyang.com/secret-coders http://geneyang.com/secret-coders]
 
== Wendy Hsu ==
 
Wendy Hsu is a researcher, strategist, and educator who engages with hybrid research and organizing agendas for equality in arts, technology, and civic participation. A former ACLS Public Fellow, Hsu currently works as the digital strategist of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, providing research and strategy to redesign the department’s data and knowledge architecture. Hsu is also the founder of Lab at DCA, a city staff innovation incubator.
 
Hsu has published on digital ethnography, sound-based pedagogy, public humanities, open access publishing, Asian American indie rock, Yoko Ono, Taqwacore, and Bollywood. Their academic research on street sound cultures in postcolonial Taiwan focuses on the urban underclass experience of mobility and low-resource technology. Their civic sound data project [http://lalistens.org/ LA Listens] explores the sensory, social, and ecological aspects of Los Angeles streets by providing a creative and engagement platform for community-oriented artists, planners, and organizers. Most recently, Hsu led the maker collective Movable Parts through [http://movableparts.org/projects/karaoke-rickshaw/ Movable Karaoke], a Metro-funded project that evokes and explores the collective mobility experience in LA.
 
[http://beingwendyhsu.info/ http://beingwendyhsu.info/]