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		<title>Q&amp;A with Industry Dive data + visuals director Greg Linch</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2023 12:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[A quick share]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Read about what I&#8217;ve been up to at work: Q&#38;A with Industry Dive data + visuals director Greg Linch!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rammellzee and Enfys Nest: The Gothic Futurism of Star Wars</title>
		<link>https://greglinch.com/2018/06/rammellzee-and-enfys-nest-the-gothic-futurism-of-star-wars.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I saw Solo: A Star Wars Story (NOTE: one plot spoiler below) the first weekend it opened with a friend, Rich Seymour. Leaving the theater, Rich mentioned how the costume for Enfys Nest resembled work by the late artist Ramellezee. We both checked our phones to see if anyone else made the connection. It seems only &#8230; <a href="https://greglinch.com/2018/06/rammellzee-and-enfys-nest-the-gothic-futurism-of-star-wars.html" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Rammellzee and Enfys Nest: The Gothic Futurism of Star Wars</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SRCCON 2018 session pitch: New templates for presenting information</title>
		<link>https://greglinch.com/2018/04/srccon-2018-session-pitch-new-templates-for-presenting-information.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 02:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my pitch for this June&#8217;s SRCCON conference: Dumplings, defamiliarization and how to create new templates for presenting information Taeyoon Choi cooks dumplings to demonstrate how a CPU works. To teach creative applications of technology, he takes a fun and tactile approach in explaining a complex subject. We also aim to explain complicated topics in &#8230; <a href="https://greglinch.com/2018/04/srccon-2018-session-pitch-new-templates-for-presenting-information.html" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">SRCCON 2018 session pitch: New templates for presenting information</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>I’m running for re-election to the ONA board of directors</title>
		<link>https://greglinch.com/2016/09/im-running-for-re-election-to-the-ona-board-of-directors.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online News Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ONA board]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Update: I&#8217;m thrilled to announce that I&#8217;ve been re-elected to the ONA board! Whoa! It&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s been another two awesome years on the ONA board of directors. I&#8217;m running for my third term with a fantastically talented and impressive group of candidates. Generally, the number of members who cast a ballot is a very &#8230; <a href="https://greglinch.com/2016/09/im-running-for-re-election-to-the-ona-board-of-directors.html" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">I&#8217;m running for re-election to the ONA board of directors</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Datawrapper step-by-step installation guide for Ubuntu on AWS</title>
		<link>https://greglinch.com/2016/07/datawrapper-step-by-step-installation-guide-for-ubuntu-on-aws.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my role as a data developer, I&#8217;ve recently been setting up a company-wide installation of Datawrapper, an open-source data visualization tool. Preparing a test server with the application, I hit some (ok, more than some) bumps along the way. It ended up taking far longer than I initially expected, but thankfully I extensively documented &#8230; <a href="https://greglinch.com/2016/07/datawrapper-step-by-step-installation-guide-for-ubuntu-on-aws.html" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Datawrapper step-by-step installation guide for Ubuntu on AWS</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SRCCON 2016 proposals: building a data community and embracing the arts</title>
		<link>https://greglinch.com/2016/04/srccon-2016-proposals-building-a-data-community-and-embracing-the-arts.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2016 21:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ll be in the country this time around, I&#8217;m hoping to attend my first SRCCON this summer in Portland. Here&#8217;s a brief description from the organizers, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews: SRCCON is a hands-on conference focused on the practical challenges news technology and data teams encounter every day. We work to make it an inclusive and welcoming event where &#8230; <a href="https://greglinch.com/2016/04/srccon-2016-proposals-building-a-data-community-and-embracing-the-arts.html" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">SRCCON 2016 proposals: building a data community and embracing the arts</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Video and updates from ONA15 session: Whose Idea of the Future Is This?</title>
		<link>https://greglinch.com/2015/09/video-and-updates-from-ona15-session-whose-idea-of-the-future-is-this.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2015 19:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Afrofuturism and other underrepresented perspectives, I organized a session at this year&#8217;s Online News Association 2015 conference in Los Angeles with an awesome group of speakers: We’ve assembled a group of experts on futurism to look at predictions and possibilities for how our society is changing, and help rethink our approach to media, &#8230; <a href="https://greglinch.com/2015/09/video-and-updates-from-ona15-session-whose-idea-of-the-future-is-this.html" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Video and updates from ONA15 session: Whose Idea of the Future Is This?</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Job news: I’m joining McClatchy DC as a data developer</title>
		<link>https://greglinch.com/2015/09/job-news-im-joining-mcclatchy-dc-as-a-data-developer.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[After nearly five years at The Washington Post,&#160;I&#8217;m thrilled to start a new job in late September focused&#160;on data stories, projects and tools at McClatchy&#8217;s DC bureau. I&#8217;ve loved&#160;working in the Post&#160;newsroom with such fantastic, inspiring&#160;coworkers.&#160;From starting&#160;on&#160;health/science&#160;and then&#160;world/national security production to building&#160;news apps/tools&#160;and managing local data projects to now producing&#160;on Team Rainbow, it&#8217;s been an &#8230; <a href="https://greglinch.com/2015/09/job-news-im-joining-mcclatchy-dc-as-a-data-developer.html" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Job news: I&#8217;m joining McClatchy DC as a data developer</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The interface as mediator</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 23:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Umberto Roncoroni: The interface is a mediation between the desire and the imagination of the user and all the tools one might need and the actual functions of the software, which are limited. &#8212;  Digital Art and Aesthetics: Studies and criticism from Latin America The above is my translation. Here&#8217;s the original Spanish (let me know if &#8230; <a href="https://greglinch.com/2014/12/the-interface-as-mediator.html" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The interface as mediator</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Johanna Drucker on data vs. capta</title>
		<link>https://greglinch.com/2014/12/johanna-drucker-on-data-vs-capta.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Linch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Johanna Drucker in Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display: Capta is &#8220;taken&#8221; actively while data is assumed to be a &#8220;given&#8221; able to be recorded and observed. From this distinction, a world of differences arises. Humanistic inquiry acknowledges the situated, partial, and constitutive character of knowledge production, the recognition that knowledge is constructed, taken, not simply &#8230; <a href="https://greglinch.com/2014/12/johanna-drucker-on-data-vs-capta.html" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Johanna Drucker on data vs. capta</span></a>]]></description>
		
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