Attribution to an alias

Question: How are you supposed to attribute a work to the author or license holder (I’m thinking particularly Creative Commons licenses) if the person who owns the copyright for that work has not associated that work with their real name? Can you attribute to an alias? Is that legal? Is a URL a legal unique […]

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Users as comparators?

I was planning on simply posting machine laziness and feedback, until I was re-reading parts of Dan Saffer’s “Designing for interaction” this morning over breakfast and had a thought; made a connection.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a an image of Hugh Dubberly’s system diagram on the Internet to link to - so hopefully you’re familiar with […]

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Multi-track recording your own improvisation

I came up with what I thought was a pretty cool idea this evening.
For ages I have struggled with how to record multiple instruments on multiple tracks when you’re not following a music score or playing along to another track. When you’re just making it up as you go - improvising - when you play […]

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Accessibility is for everyone

You don’t really “get it” until you experience it first-hand. Like I did watching Debra Wells use a screen reader at last month’s Web Standards Group meeting and like I am currently while learning to use my new half-keyboard due to problems with my right wrist.
I think most people in this space now accept […]

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How audio compression/compressors work

I’ve had a few people ask me over the past week or so about dynamics processors and audio signal compression … and I’ve failed to come up with a good non-technical answer for them, but I came up with what I thought was a pretty good analogy today and I want to share it.
Ok say […]

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