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Staff Profile
Career Summary
My background includes work as a freelance writer, photographer, a typesetter and publication designer, and as a playwright. This diverse media background allows me to bring an eclectic mix of skills to my teaching and research. I was initially employed at the University of Newcastle as a lecturer in professional writing partly on the basis of my freelance experience. However, as media technologies changed so to did my teaching role - desktop publishing evolved into web-design; film-based photography gave way to digital photography; audio and video on the web became multimedia. Mirroring this media and technological convergence I now teach audio, video and web-based multimedia.
My research interests, like my teaching, evolved with the changes in the media landscape. My research interests include: narrative and interactive design (particularly in online media), script writing and character development; virtual environments and immersion; and, the relationship between creativity and humour. As an early-career academic the majority of my research outputs have been related to undertaking Research Higher Degrees. In 2006 I graduated with a Master of Creative Arts from the University of Newcastle. In 2008 I enrolled in a PhD program at Victoria University, Melbourne. During my candidature in both of these degree I have generated journal and conference publications. My career has been punctuated with periods of where I have undertaken administrative duties. I have been a Deputy Head of School in the School of Design, COmmunication and IT and I have undertaken the Program Convenor role on several occasions for the Bachelor of Communication, the combined Bachelor of Communication/Laws and the Master of Multimedia. In these roles I have been responsible for the development of initiatives to address quality assurance and student recruitment/retention issues for the local and Singapore delivery of School courses and programs.
- Doctor of Philosophy, Victoria University - Australia, 29/08/2014
- Master of Creative Arts, University of Newcastle, 04/09/2006
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle, 08/05/1997
- Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies), University of Newcastle, 11/05/1991
Research keywords
- Computers and Theatre
- Humour
- Interactive media
Research expertise
In 2006 I graduated from the University of Newcastle with a Master of Creative Arts degree. The title of this work is: A Playwright's Toolkit : The Instruments, Tools and Agency of a Playwright in the Creative Writing Process. The project included a creative work and an exegesis. The Things We Do is the title of a triptych of plays that comprises: His Story, a ten minute multimedia presentation; The Things, a longish one-act play of forty minutes in a more traditional theatrical form; and, Her Story, a ten minute multimedia presentation. The play has three human characters and three computer characters. Using an interface similar to a web browser, the characters interact with one another: human-to-computer and computer-to-computer. The computer characters are represented on stage as data projections of the interface. Their voices, audible from a loudspeaker, were developed using Apple Script to modify the standard Apple text-to-speech computer voices, and then incorporated into the interface using Adobe Flash.
The willing suspension of disbelief, a phrase coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, describes the poetic faith that an audience needs to have in the ontology of the fictional world presented to them in the theatre (Coleridge 1906). Suspension of disbelief has long been considered a requisite for development of dramatic closure, that satisfactory end promised by the beginning. In the writing of the triptych of plays a primary research objective was to examine the proposition that it is belief, not disbelief, that is automatic (Reeves and Nass 1996, p.27). The purpose of the exegesis was to illuminate the instruments, tools, and agency of the playwright employed to support belief and, in doing so, examine the nature of the creative writing process. To examine this research objective, consideration is given to the development of the computer voices, action and character, humour, narrative structure and the effect of cognitive load.
This work, and the associated conference and journal publications, caught the public imagination and received considerable media coverage.
In 2008 I enrolled in a PhD through Victoria University, Melbourne, under the supervision of Dr Tom Clark. This work extends my previous investigations of the integration of computers and new media into the performance of humour. This project is composed of two parts: a creative project; and, an exegesis. The creative project will develop a pair of online chatbots that will interact as comedian and straight man when a human user delivers a topic. A chatbot (chatter-robot, talk-bot, or simply, bot) is a computer-based conversational agent that simulates natural language conversation.
Several publications have resulted from this work.
- English
Fields of Research
|Communication Technology And Digital Media Studies
|Communication And Media Studies
|Interactive Media
Learned Academy.
- Member (International Society of Humor Studies)
- Member (Australasian Humour Studies Network)
Research Award.
|International Award for Excellence
Design Principles and Practices Journal (Australia)
The Design Principles and Practices knowledge community offers an annual International Award for Excellence for new research or thinking in the area of design principles and practices. All articles submitted for publication in the Design Collection are entered into consideration for this award. The review committee for the award is selected from the International Advisory Board for the journal and the annual International Conference on Design Principles and Practices. The committee will select the winning article from the ten highest-ranked articles emerging from the peer review process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the peer review guidelines. The winning author will be invited to the next annual International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, where they will be formally acknowledged in a short presentation. The winner will receive a free registration to attend this conference. The nine runners-up will also be formally acknowledged. 2012 International Award for Excellence Winner Design Dramaturgy: A Case Study in New Media, Humor and Artificial Intelligence Michael M. Meany and Tom Clark
|International Award for Excellence - Runner-up
International Journal of the Arts in Society (Australia)
My paper, 'The Semblance of Truth: The Development of Dialogue in Computer-Based Characters', was one of the ten highest-ranked papers emerging from the referee process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the referee guidelines. The editors and the International Advisory Board announced that the paper was a runner-up for the International Award for Excellence in the area of the Arts.
|Keep Laughing... This is Serious
Northern Sydney Region Primary Principals Conference, Australia (Invited Presenter)
Australasian Humour Studies Network, Australia (Conference Convenor)
|Michael Meany
Assumption University, Bangkok, , Thailand (Invited Presenter)
My primary research interests revolve around the combined domains of humour studies, creativity research, and the use of artificial intelligence agents as comic performers.
My PhD topic - Development of humour in artificial intelligence agents - is a project composed of two parts: a creative project; and, an exegesis. A chatbot (chatter-robot, talk-bot, or simply, bot) is a computer-based conversational agent that simulates natural language conversation. The creative project will develop a pair of online chatbots that will interact as 'comedian' and 'straight man' when a human user delivers a topic.
The project is uniquely positioned to offer an examination of the unstable frontier between the human and non-human. Henri Bergson in his seminal essay on laughter stated a new law of humour, We laugh every time a person gives us the impression of being a thing (Bergson 2005, p.28, Original Publication 1911).
This project integrates human agency (the scriptwriter and the scriptwriting process) with the non-human agency of the artificial intelligence of chatbots (the interface and the scripted processes). As such, it tests if Bergsons law will stand if it is inverted; will we laugh every time a thing gives the impression of being a person? Further, and importantly, it examines the unstable frontier between the human and the non-human to offer an insight into the boundary negotiation at the frontier.
Administrative expertise
The following section will describe my major service contributions to the discipline of Communication and to the School of Design, Communication and IT. My career has been punctuated with periods of where I have undertaken duties usually reserved for more senior academics. For example, as a Level A academic, I undertook my first term as a Program Convenor (Program Coordinator as it was known then) for the Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies). Since being promoted to Level B I have undertaken the Program Convenor role on several occasions for the Bachelor of Communication and the combined Bachelor of Communication/Laws, as well as, the Master of Multimedia. Mostly recently, my service to the School has been as Deputy Head of School. Evidence for my effectiveness in this role will be based on my engagement with the Singapore delivery of School courses, and the development of initiative to address quality assurance and student recruitment/retention.
2013 - Convenor for Bachelor of Communication and Bachelor of Communication/Laws.
2010 (1 year) - Member of the Faculty Community & Marketing Working Group
Maintaining the communication flow between the Working Group and the School of DCIT.
2008 - 2009 (2 years) - Deputy Head of School; MFP Supervisor; Complaints Officer
2008 (Occasional) - Acting Head of School
2007 (Sem 1) - Acting Program Convenor for Bachelor of Communication and Bachelor of Communication/Laws. Submission of Degree Review documentation
2006 (1 year) - Program Convenor Bachelor of Communication and Bachelor of Communication/Laws. Development of Degree Review documentation
2004 (1 year) - Program Convenor - Master of Multimedia
2001 (1 month) - Acting Head of Department
2000 - 2001 (2 years) - Program Convenor Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies)
Contribution to developing Degree Review documentation
Teaching keywords
- Audio and Video Editing
- New Media Production
- Print Editing
- Professional Writing
Teaching expertise
My teaching philosophy can be summarised through these main points.
- As an over-arching pedagogical position, problem-based learning satisfies the needs defined above.
- Skills development should take a constructivist approach formative assessments leading to a summative project.
- Knowledge development should require the student to reflect on their work and the work of others.
- Assessment should aid learning and clearly articulate desired learning outcomes.
- Learning should be 'hard fun' - cognitive pleasure should be the reward for achievement.
- Teaching is a performance art - I firmly believe in the importance of humour and performance in teaching.
This section provides a rationale for the assessment strategy that I employ in my curriculum design and teaching. Assessment events can be defined as either formative or summative. Formative events are design to build skills, knowledge, abilities and attitudes in a particular content area of the course. Summative events are those that allow the student to display the combined effect of what was learnt in the formative stages. My courses employ a collaborative learning approach where students and staff are expected to share their knowledge, skills and abilities. To further this teaching and learning strategy, students are allowed to resubmit assessment events where they feel they can demonstrate enhanced learning outcomes from assessment feedback. This strategy seeks to deal with the following issues:
1. Students undertaking technology-based courses, and on-line courses, tend to have 'penny-drop' moments of understanding that may not occur in time for an assessment event.
2. Students may not fully understand the assessment criteria until they see the quality of work produced by others in the class or until they receive specific feedback on their work.
3. These courses require students to develop their visual, written and oral communication skills and to be not only competent but also literate across a range of media forms.
4. The 'one attempt only' approach to assessment discourages students from taking creative leaps and academic risks.
This strategy is intended to allow students to fully engage with the course material and to develop for themselves the best learning outcomes. The course resubmission policy only applies to selected formative assessment events with comparatively low marks value (less than 20%). There is no penalty for resubmitting an assignment. It is not, however, intended for students wishing to engage in a petty 'marks chase'. Assessment descriptions, criteria and fully developed marking guides are supplied for each assignment on the Blackboard site. For these formative assessment tasks, the marking guides are quite prescriptive - the student must undertake the required skills development in accordance with the outcomes made explicit in the course outline. Students resubmitting an assignment need to take into account the assessment criteria as well as the specific feedback provided by their lecturer. This strategy also encourages rigorous assessment and grading. In other words, resubmission does not create a soft option. Students are completely responsible for their results; they cannot blame the course or the lecturer for their results. The only way to do well in the course is to behave professionally, stay engaged, learn from feedback, and develop critical self-reflection skills. Students are told that it is possible to do worse on an assessment event after resubmission. Where a student has thoughtlessly created new errors in their work in a poor attempt at 'fixing' the original submission, their grade can be reduced. This again reminds students that they are responsible for their grade and for the approach they take to their studies.
The application of these strategies leads to a high level of student satisfaction, evidenced through formal survey results and informal communication. In 2006 I won the Faculty Teaching and Learning Award.
Highlighted Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
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Journal article (8 outputs)
|Meany MM, Clark T, Laineste L, 'Comedy, Creativity, and Culture: A Metamodern Perspective', THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERARY HUMANITIES, 11 1-15 (2014) [C1]
This paper resulted from an international collaboration between Dr Michael Meany (University of Newcastle), Dr Tom Clark (Victoria University, Melbourne) and Dr Liisi Laineste (Estonian Literary Museum).
|Meany MM, Clark T, Joseph S, 'Comedy and Artificial Intelligence: Do We Laugh When a Thing Gives the Impression of Being a Person?', The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts, 8 21-34 (2014) [C1]
|Meany MM, Clark T, 'Design dramaturgy: A case study in new media, humor and artificial intelligence', Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, 6 59-71 (2013) [C1]
This paper won the International Award for Excellence for Volume 6 of the Design Collection. The article, "Design Dramaturgy: A Case Study in New Media, Humor and Artificial Intelligence," was selected for the award from among the ten highest-ranked papers emerging from the journal?s peer review process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the referee guidelines. This article is a point of confluence between design theory, creativity theory, and creative practice. It contributes to design theory by providing a re-evaluation of Herbert A. Simon's The Sciences of the Artificial. Simon's work, often referenced in design theory, is examined through the lens of dramaturgy. By combining the indicia of the artificial with the structural elements of the dramaturgical protocol the processes and goals of creative practice are opened up to investigation. The outcomes of this investigation can be subsequently used to test the application of models of creativity. In this manner, theory informs practice and practice assesses theory. Dramaturgy, as it is employed in the article, is an exegetical methodology. This is significant as this methodology was employed in a creative PhD project. As a tool for examining habitual responses, dramaturgy offers the design researcher a technique for acquiring new perspectives on their work and work practices, all of which are embedded in a material, social and cultural context. Dramaturgy examines the process and the product: the making and the made. Finally, the approach to understanding and addressing design problems outlined in the article contributes to design pedagogy. This approach has been successfully employed in curriculum development for undergraduate and postgraduate design courses.
|Meany MM, Clark T, 'Chat-bot humour: A survey of methodological approaches for a creative new media project', The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 8 23-32 (2012) [C1]
|Meany MM, Clark T, 'Scripting humour in conversational agents: Improvisation and emergence of humorous interchanges', International Journal of the Arts in Society, 5 225-235 (2011) [C1]
|Meany MM, Clark T, 'Humour theory and conversational agents: An application in the development of computer-based agents', The International Journal of the Humanities, 8 129-140 (2010) [C1]
|Meany MM, 'Interactive, new media poetry: Is such a thing possible?', International Journal of the Humanities, 5 1-7 (2007) [C1]
|Meany MM, 'The Semblance of Truth', The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 1 33-40 (2006) [C1]
The International Advisory Board announced that this paper was a runner-up for the International Award for Excellence in the area of the Arts. The paper, 'The Semblance of Truth: The Development of Dialogue in Computer-Based Characters', was one of the ten highest-ranked papers emerging from the referee process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the referee guidelines.
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Conference (13 outputs)
|Hookham G, Meany MM, 'The Spectrum of States: Comedy, Humour and Engagement in Games.', Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE 2015)., University of Western Sydney (2015)
|Meany MM, 'The cake is a lie: Ideology, humour and comedy in Portal', Abstracts and Program Twenty First AHSN Conference, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia (2015)
|Hookham G, Meany MM, 'Perspective Shifting: Humour and Comedy in Games', IE2014 Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interactive Entertainment, Newcastle (2014) [E1]
Co-authors: SHAMUS SMITH
|Meany MM, 'Comedy - A Computationally Intractable Problem', Program and Abstracts Twentieth AHSN Colloquium on 'Anything Goes'., National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand. (2014) [E3]
|Meany MM, 'Humour and creativity - Theoretical congruence', Program and Abstracts Nineteenth Colloquium on 'Humour and Creativity', Newcastle, NSW (2013) [E3]
|Meany MM, 'The vaudeville 'two-act' in a new media environment', The 18th AHSN Annual Colloquium on "Varieties of Humour and Laughter", Canberra, ACT (2012) [E3]
|Meany MM, 'Incongruity: Human-like machines and machine-like humans', 17th Australiasian Humour Studies Network (AHSN) Colloquium on 'Time, Place and Humour' Abstracts, Hobart, Tas (2011) [E3]
|Meany MM, 'Testing an inversion of Bergson's 'new law' of humour', Proceedings of the 10th International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter: Theory, Research and Application, Boldern-Mannedorf (2010) [E3]
|Meany MM, 'Humour, anxiety, and Csikszentmihalyi's concept of flow', 3rd Global Conference : Creative Engagements - Thinking with Children. Conference Program, Abstracts and Papers, Sydney (2007) [E1]
|Meany MM, 'Another Triumvirate: Creativity; Practitioner Based Enquiry; and, New Media', 6th Annual Conference of Early Career Academics, University of Newcastle-Treehouse (2006) [E2]
|Meany MM, 'The Sensorium of Computer Mediated Education', IASTED Computers and Advanced technology in Education Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada (2001) [E1]
|Meany MM, Russell K, 'The Cultural Spiral: Virtual Spaces as Records of Time:VRML Technologies', Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities, University of Sydney (2001) [E2]
Co-authors: KEITH RUSSELL
|Russell K, Meany MM, 'Merewether Baths will never look the same again', Computing Arts 2001, University of Sydney (2001) [E2]
Co-authors: KEITH RUSSELL
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Creative Work (1 outputs)
|Meany MM, Print Projections, Watt Space, Newcastle (2004) [J2]
Thesis / Dissertation (3 outputs)
|Meany MM, The Performance of Comedy by Artificial Intelligence Agents, Victoria University (2014)
|Fulton JM, Making the news: print journalism and the creative process, University of Newcastle (2011)
Co-authors: JANET FULTON, PHILLIP MCINTYRE
|Meany MM, A Playwright¿s Toolkit ¿ The Instruments, Tools and Agency of a Playwright in the Creative Writing Process., University of Newcastle (2006)
Co-authors: PHILLIP MCINTYRE
Grants and Funding
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2007 (1 grants)
The fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, 17/7/2007 - 20/7/2007, American University Paris$1,700
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
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|Doctor Michael Meany
|Travel Grant
|Chief Investigator
|Total Amount
|Funding Start
|Funding Finish
2006 (1 grants)
International Conference on the Arts in Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15-18 August 2006$1,500
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
|Project Team
|Doctor Michael Meany
|Travel Grant
|Chief Investigator
|Total Amount
|Funding Start
|Funding Finish
Research Supervision
|Number of current supervisions
|Total current UoN Masters EFTSL
|Total current UoN PhD EFTSL
For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, the institution name is listed below the program name.
Current Supervision
|Supervisor Type
|Research Title
|M Philosophy (Comm&Med Arts)
|Newcastle's Creative Industries: Investigating Performing Arts Professional and Non-Professional Creative Economies With an Emphasis on Theatre
|PhD (Comm & Media Arts)
|Principal Supervisor
|StoryAlity Theory - Story and Screenwriting, Movies and Memes: Examining the Top Twenty Return-On-Investment (ROI) Movies Using Systems Theory, Creativity Theory, and Bio-Cultural Evolutionary Epistemology
|PhD (Comm & Media Arts)
|Hyper-Compression in Music Production: The Creative Context of the Aesthetics of Loudness
|PhD (Information Technology)
|Gamification for Engagement: Evaluating Engagement and Efficacy in Serious Games for Education, Training and Therapy
|M Philosophy (Comm&Med Arts)
|The Shoot Out - Targeting Creativity: Exploring the Creative Process Through the 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival
Past Supervision
|Supervisor Type
|Research Title
|PhD (Comm & Media Arts)
|Profiling Creativity: An Exploration of the Creative Process Through the Practice of Freelance Print Journalism
|PhD (Comm & Media Arts)
|Rock, This City: A Thematic History of Live Popular Music in Licensed Venues in Newcastle, Australia, During the Oz/Pub Rock Era (1970s and 80s)
|PhD (Comm & Media Arts)
|Making the News: Print Journalism and the Creative Process
Dr Michael Meany
|Work Phone
|(02) 4985 4525
|(02) 4921 5896
|Senior Lecturer
School of Design Communication and IT
Faculty of Science and Information Technology
The University of Newcastle, Australia
|Focus Area
ICT Building,
University Drive
Callaghan NSW 2308


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TOLEDO, Ohio – The second-seeded Miami University hockey team fell to fourth-seeded St. Cloud State, 4-1, in the Midwest Regional Final (second round) of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday at the Huntington Center in Toledo.
The RedHawks finish their season with a 25-12-5 overall record, while the Huskies improved to 25-15-1 and advanced to their first Frozen Four in school history. Miami's trip back to the Round of Eight was its first since 2010, when it advanced to the Frozen Four after beating Michigan, 3-2, in double-overtime.
Senior defenseman and captain Steven Spinell and sophomore forward Blake Coleman, who totaled three points in the regional, were both named to the NCAA All-Midwest Regional Team.
St. Cloud State opened the scoring with 14:32 left in the first period. Corey Thorson passed from the top of the left circle back to Joey Benik, who was trailing high in the slot. Benik ripped a hard wrist shot past freshman goaltender Ryan McKay, who finished with 18 saves.
Miami responded well after the goal, as it hit two posts midway through the opening period. Freshman defenseman Matthew Caito hit the bottom of the far post with 11 minutes to go and just less than 30 seconds later freshman forward Sean Kuraly hit the crossbar. The 'Hawks, however, couldn't get anything past goalie Ryan Faragher despite outshooting the Huskies, 9-6, in the first period.
SCSU took a two-goal lead at the 14:24 mark of the second after Benik notched his second goal of the game on a rebound in front of the net. Brooks Bertsch, who took the initial shot after beating a Miami defender up the right side, tallied an assist on the play.
The RedHawks battled back and closed the gap on the power play less than three minutes later after Coleman took advantage of a calculated bounce. Spinell's shot from the blue line, which sailed right of the goal post, bounced straight back to Coleman, who beat Faragher back-hand glove side. The goal was the Plano, Texas native's ninth of the season. Sophomore forward Alex Wideman earned the second assist.
Miami finished 1-for-4 with the man-advantage, while St. Cloud State was 0-for-4 as the RedHawks remained tough on the penalty kill. Both teams had four penalties for eight minutes.
The Huskies, which outshot the RedHawks 11-5 in the second period, regained their two-goal lead, as Thorson scored the first of his two goals on a quick shot from the middle of the left circle with 9:48 left in the second stanza. Bertsch picked up his second helper of the day on the score.
At the end of a hard-fought third period, the RedHawks pulled McKay down two but couldn't beat Faragher, who finished with 20 saves. Thorson then rounded out the scoring, as he picked up his second goal of the night on Miami's open net with .2 seconds remaining. Miami outshot St. Cloud State, 7-5, in the final frame but the Huskies finished with a slight, 22-21 edge in shots.
The RedHawks, who carried 18 freshmen and sophomores on their team this season, made their eighth straight NCAA Tournament and also captured the final CCHA regular-season title during the season. In addition to Spinell, seniors Joe Hartman, Garrett Kennedy, Steve Mason and Curtis McKenzie close their careers with 101 victories at Miami, ranking fourth all-time among senior classes, while redshirt senior Marc Hagel also played a huge role with the RedHawks in his lone season donning the Red and White.
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- Anthony Goddard said...
aside from the authentication and administration overhead that the key adds, I'm not sure what is really gained.. IMO, if there are users abusing the service, they might not always need to be banned, just throttled - and then, if it's part of the terms of using the service, this shouldn't be a reactive process but it should be built into the system - that is, no single IP is allowed to make more than n requests per sec/min/hr.. I think forcing people to join a mailing list is an unnecessary step if they just want to get some data. Of course, they should sign up so they're not surprised when the service becomes unavailable due to a scheduled outage, but that should be up to them. If people share a key, then tracking their use over multiple subnets/IPs is a benefit you'll get from keys, but you can easily get usage stats per IP from your logs
My two cents.. :)
- September 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- tompasley said...
As I've stated via twitter, I think that the key should be an opt-in option - here's my reasoning:
1 Users of this service will not necessarily be the same as consumers of the service - there will be times when you have someone who is using this service as part of a service they provide. I would probably fall into that category, given time, and would not be interested in being part of a mailing list. I wouldn't mind registering for a key, so I could be notified of any significant changes to this service (long downtime, dropping support for OpenURL 0.1, etc.). To me, registering for keys should be a mutually beneficial system, for service-critical notification.
2 This also allays any privacy concerns - though you can still monitor usage via IP address, as Anthony has suggested.
3 This also allows a tiered approach to communication - critical issues to all tiers, including key-registration users; development discussion; and user-level discussion.
Thanks for moving the discussion beyond the 140 char. limit!
- September 24, 2009 at 2:41 PM
- Gerwin Kasperek said...
The resolver works fairly good, at least for monographs. It was easy to successfully construct some URLs leading to titles in BHL. In the description of the service, I think, it would be nice to have examples for addressing journal articles via openURL (not just books). Links from article metadata in bibliographic databases, like Zoological Record archives, to article full texts in BHL could be a great thing.
- October 1, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- Anonymous said...
Is this the place to post technical comments or is there another blog?
Nicolas Bailly, FishBase
- October 15, 2009 at 6:42 AM
- Martin said...
Nick, please post comments here
- October 15, 2009 at 6:57 AM
- peacay said...
Off topic but still..
1. Can you make the masthead clickable to the homepage please (I can only see the little 'home' link down the bottom when I arrive on an individual post page). No biggy of course; just a thought.
2 Are you going to write about (what I presume is) the new loading architecture of the digital books? It is new innit?? {yeah, I confess to getting MBG & BHL idiosyncrasies I mean UI individuality confuzzled at times; of which now may be a prime example)
One thing I was wondering about it: how much continues to load in the background?? If I go to a particular page in a book, is it just the page ahead/behind preloading or everything?? It's really a personal bandwidth question that may kind of dictate the rapidity/m.o. of my visits.
- October 19, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- Bregmaceros said...
In FishBase (FB), we would like to link to BHL pages from our BIBLIO table where we record where the name has been used in which reference. It could be the same for Catalog of Fishes (CofF) by the way, and even more because it records more old stuff than FB.
The resolver works nice, but works only on textual parameters, with all the problems of misspelling, different publication dates, etc.
I suggest that a document resolver could deliver the Id of the document, so we could store the Id in our REFERENCES table, and have the page resolver working also with the Id. So when we are sure that the documents found are the good ones, we can tag it as checked.
What do you think? Or will the ambiguous cases less frequent than I think?
- October 21, 2009 at 7:45 AM
- David Shorthouse said...
Little late to the party, but could you also wrap a callback function around the JSON format? That way, a consumer need not use any server-side programming to make use of the service in a front-end application (i.e. could use jQuery or any js library to immediately consume the js object)
- January 25, 2010 at 12:23 AM
- Chris Freeland said...
David - Never too late in custom software development! Good suggestion - I'll let you know when it's available.
- February 9, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Chris Freeland said...
David - You can now wrap the JSON response in a callback function. Updated documentation at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurlhelp.aspx
- February 9, 2010 at 5:09 PM


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Department of Linguistics
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e-mail: cissewski@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
|1961, 20.12
|was born in Leningrad (St.-Petersburg)
|1979 - 1984
|studied at the Leningrad State University
|1984, June
|graduated from the Scandinavian department of the philological faculty (Faculty of Letters) of the Leningrad State University, having majored in the Germanic languages and linguistics
|defended a doctoral thesis on the "Struktura prostogo glagol'nogo prelozhenija v evenskom jazyke" (Verbal clause patterns in Even)
|worked as a researcher at the Altaic department of the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences), specializing in Tungusic languages
|from 1991 on
|associated senior researcher at the Institute for the study of Northern minorities (Yakutsk)
|from December 94 to June 96
|Alexander von Humboldt fellow researcher at the Seminar fuer Orientkunde at the University of Mainz
|from June 97 to October 97
|Research scholarship (NWO-Besucherboerse) at the department of Comparative Linguistics in Leiden (Holland)
|from February 01 to November 01
|Post-doc scholarship at the department of Germanic and general linguistics of the University of Antwerp
|from 1999 on
|work as a senior scientific researcher at the Altaic department of the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
|May 2002
|defended a habilitation on "Sintaksis evenskogo jazyka: strukturnyje, semanticheskie, kommunikativnyje aspekty" (Syntax of Even: structural, semantic, discourse-pragmatic aspects) St. Petersburg
|From January 2003
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|JSPS fellowship (post-doc) at the Kobe University. Research topic (together with A. Ogawa) "Typology of impersonal constructions"
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|From May 2006 on
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Hammam Bouquet
Jean Marie Farina
Agua Lavanda
Guerlain Vetiver
Guerlain Habit rouge
Eau dOrange Verte Concentre
Which fragrances from your collection have you worn day after day and not got sick/tired of? In my (albeit small) collection, there are only 2-
Bleu de Chanel- I wore this every day for 2 months and still love it.
Guerlain Vetiver- I wore this every day for about a month straight, and still go back to it from time to time.
Hammam Bouquet
Jean Marie Farina
Agua Lavanda
Guerlain Vetiver
Guerlain Habit rouge
Eau dOrange Verte Concentre
Consecutive days - nothing. With regularity, Gengis Khan
In the past few years, the most consecutive days I have worn the same frag was probably 3 days. Those frags were Aventus, Terre D' Hermes (from samples), Millesime Imperial and Rive Gauche.
Last fall, I've worn Eau des Baux by L'Occitane for 4 or 5 consecutive days.
TdH the majority of this year and I appreciate it even more now
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."
--Ben Hogan
I never wear the same fragrance 2 days in a row.
I have not worn the same fragrance on consecutive days.
My favorites only get worn about once every 6 weeks. I try to wear most everything at least once every 4 months.
So, I never really get sick of anything that I like.
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
-- Eckhart Tolle
Bulgari green tea
Bulgari white tea
Cartier Declaration Cologne
Cartier Santos Eau de Sport
Etro Ambra
Ferragamo Tuscan Soul
Giorgio Armani Aqua di Gio
L'Occitane Citrus Verbena Intensa
Malle Musc Ravageur
Mostly because I have a relatively small Summer rotation, and a comparatively ginormous Winter rotation.
presently givenchy play intense 4 days straight!!
About ten years ago I wore A*men, for like two years, every day, but one or two sprays at the most. Since I have more bottles now I wear a different scent every day, except when I get a new one. Then in the heat of the moment I probably wear it two or three days in a row.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Bois D`argent Dior for one week straight
Terre d'Hermès
Current Top Favorites:
1) Portrait of a Lady original formula (EdP Frédéric Malle)
2) Giorgio for Men vintage/V.I.P. for Men (Giorgio Beverly Hills)
3) Dia Man vintage edt (Amouage)
4) Anat Fritz Original Formula and Classical (Anat Fritz) - tie
4) Lalfeorosa (O'driù) - tie
6) Les Nombres d'Or Vetyver (Mona di Orio)
7) Captain vintage (Molyneux)
8) Tzora (Anat Fritz)
9) Javanese Patchouli (Zegna) - tie
9) Monsieur de Givenchy vintage (Givenchy) - tie
9) Coeur de Vetiver Sacré (L'Artisan) - tie
9) X for Men (Clive Christian) - tie
9) Patou pour Homme Privé (Jean Patou) - tie
9) Oud Shamash (The Different Company) - tie
Like others here I don't wear the same fragrance on consecutive days, but the one I likely use most as my "workhorse" is Dior Homme. Never inappropriate, but never boring.
Recently Spicebomb 3-4 days straight, but I wore other stuff later in the days or earlier in the day. I know last summer I wore Aventus, MI and Roadster 4-5 days straight. This last winter I wore Tobacco Vanille 2-3 days straight, and didn't wear enough of Ambre Narguile damn I think i only wore it once or twice. Just didn't find the right occasion for it.
Clinique Happy (seriously, just love this)
Chanel Allure Homme sport
clinique happy is my favorite after shave. quality
MI, GIT, Egoiste, Rive Gauche.
Want to trade - Chanel Platinum Egoiste for Dior Eau Sauvage...
Chanel Pour Monsieur - just couldn't have enough
Versace Pour Homme.
Never done it, however thought of it.
Caron PuH every evening
i always do it!
i can not imagine if i like one scent that much not to wear it the next day as well.....if i dont repeat it next day means i dont like it at the moment for some reason
before i used to wear one perfume every day until the bottle is empty lol....thats why i never ever repurchased
L eau D Issey pour Homme by Issey Miyake-My work horse scent.
I wear a different one every day but after a shower after work I tend to wear either Equipage, Bel Ami or patchouli leaves if i'm staying at home. I find them very comforting.
Hard work never killed anyone, but why risk it?
Ones that don't wash off, like Black Afgano!
If there is one that I grab more often than others on an average working day, it will have to be aventus. But since I'm still in an accumulation phase, this may change. I think my newly acquired bleu de Chanel will take that spot as the safe day go to for the rest of the spring and much of the summer.
Have done:
Guerlain Vetiver
Borsari Acqua Classica
L'Occitane Eau des Baux
Could probably do Guerlain Heritage for consecutive days, any time of the year.
Mugler Cologne got a lot of play last summer for me, I wore it for about a week straight. I wish I had been using the SOTD thing then because I know I wore that stuff the majority of last summer.
I don't repeat nowadays, however, when I didn't have a collection, I used Hilfiger Athletic for abt 2-3 yrs straight when I was in India - was grt for the extremely hot & humid weather...I still use it when the it becomes too hot in summer, amazing & very under appreciated fragrance IMHO...
I usually wear something different every day depending on my mood. The exception is when I have a challenging scent I am trying to figure out or a new scent I want to get to know. Today will be day 3 wearing Patchouli Imperial which I got 3 days ago.
Some Favorites
1. Amouage Epic man
2. Dior Leather Oud
3. Perris Monte Carlo Oud Imperial Black
4. Le Labo Patchouli 24
5. Amouage Opus VII
6. Byredo Bullion
7. Masque Milano Russian Tea
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Most of my fragrance wardrobe.
Mine have to be Pure Havane, LIDGE, and M. I think that Geranium Pour Monsieur and Lumiere Noire will be added to that list very soon....
My last purchase was Aventus, this kind of stuff to me is so expensive that i cant afford to buy variety, so i have to make sure i like it and that its versatile.
I plan on testing out a few more next week, and if i love MI like i suspect i may, then thats going to be carrying me right through until autumn, for everything.
Sounds boring on the surface, but i think its quite good, because i actually get remembered for a specific scent as if its actually a part of me.
I find myself wearing Jicky often. If I owned a bottle of Vetiver Pour Elle, I would wear it all the time.
CDG 2 Man
i am in love with le troisieme man.
Before really getting into this hobby around two years ago, I would tend to finish a bottle before purchasing a new one. Therefore, fragrances worn for longer periods are:
Gucci PH II
Prada Amber PH
Very Irresistible
Tuscan Leather
Noir de Noir
Italian Cypress
Tom Ford Extreme
TdH, Shalimar EDC, Aramis 900
Too many to menttion, but here are some I never tire of even after multiple wearings day after day:
Creed Windsor
D&G Pour Homme (vintage)
Guerlain SDV
Creed Green Valley
Penhaligon's Opus 1870
Amouage Jubilation XXV
Creed Original Vetiver
Le Labo Rose 31
Le Labo Vanille 44
Le Labo Gaiac 10
Hermes Terre d'Hermes
Chanel Egoiste
Dunhill Edition (vintage)
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille
Creed Royal Oud
Dior Eau Savauge
Dior Fahrenheit
Iunx L'Ether
Gucci Envy for Men
Caron Pour Un Homme
MFK Oud
Xerjoff 1861
Ungaro II (vintage)
Tauer LADDM
YSL Rive Gauche Pour Homme
CDG Vettiveru
Arquiste Aleksandr
YSL Rive Gauche
and a few of the Creeds (GIT, Original Cologne, SMW)
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde
I generally mix it up, but like others have noted, I've found Eau des Baux to be imminently easy to wear and I have worn it consecutively. I've also had extended stints with PG's L'Ombre Fauve, ALOF's What We Do In Paris Is Secret, CdG 2Man, and Diptyque's Philosykos.
Two days in a row is usually my limit. Right now, actuallly, I prefer to wear my SOTD two days in a row for some reason. I guess I enjoy the scent!
Versace the Dreamer
YSL Pour Homme Haute Concentration
My all time favorite:
Dior Fahrenheit
Been wearing Boss Bottled for 10 years straight without getting bored. That is always in my daily rotation no matter what.
Most anything in my collection but most notably
any of my Creeds
Molecule 01
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
I usually rotate fragrances daily. Lately it's been MI every other day, and then on the other days a collection of warm weather favorites (Eau d'Hadrien, VIW, Neroli Portofino, or Concentre d'Orange Verte).
Current Top Five:
1. Creed Green Irish Tweed
2. Tom Ford Neroli Portofino
3. Hermes Concentre d'Orange Verte
4. Bond No. 9 New Haarlem
5. Creed Original Vetiver
From my current wardrobe, fragrances that I have worn 3 days and counting, and on more than one occasion, are:
Zirh Corduroy
Seduction in Black
Animale Animale
Eau des Baux
McGraw Southern Blend
Old Spice
Paul Smith Man
Vera Wang
Tommy True Star
Rive Gauche Light
My Ultimate Top 5:
Fahrenheit (1988)
Paul Smith Man (2009)
Burberry London (2006)
Prada Amber pour Homme (2006)
Arpege pour Homme (2005)
Dior Homme
Neroli Portofino
Tobacco Vanille
Green irish Tweed
Lalique White
Bleu de Chanel
versace pour homme 3 days in a row.
Any opinions I post here about frags only reflect MY PERSONAL TASTE and only my personal preference which could change at any moment.
During my typical workaday life, my collection is big enough that I can wear a different frag every day for about three months. Of course I have favorites that I'll wear more often, and others I'll wear less. Over the past couple weeks, though, I've been moving to a new state, and only packed about 5 frags to carry back and forth. In that timeframe, I've worn one way more than any other:
Amouage Honour Man. It's an incredibly versatile, high quality scent. I love it.
Almost never happens these days, but I wore Dior Homme two days running a few weeks back.


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Mr. Rafael Torres assumed the position of Acting Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Human Resources and Administration (HR&A) on October 1, 2012. As Acting Assistant Secretary, Mr. Torres leads VA's unprecedented employee-focused initiative called ADVANCE. ADVANCE offers professional development programs and training to all VA employees and makes it easier for all staff members to improve their careers and support the Department's transformation. This initiative is a key part of Secretary Shinseki's effort to transform VA into a 21st-century organization.
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It's no secret that ASPCA employees are crazy about animals, so why should our own pets be any exception? Every year, we create a beautiful wall calendar for our friends and supporters using our very own furry friends as models, and as you can imagine, the competition is pretty fierce!
Our 2015 calendar is almost complete, but there's still one very important decision to make: Whose adorable adopted companion should grace this year's cover?
We've narrowed it down to four contenders, and we need YOU to help us choose a winner. Check out the photos that are in the running, read a little about these sweet, adopted animals, and then cast your vote for our 2015 Cover Dog or Cat. The pet whose photo gets the most votes will have his or her face in homes all across America!
Would have liked to have seen a pit bull as a choice for the calendar cover.
I also would liked to have seen a pit bull as one of the choices. They have gotten an unnecessarily bad reputation for being vicious dogs when actually they are almost always very sweet loving companions. It's the idiots who chain them 24/7, taunt them, beat them and any other horrible thing they can do to them to make them very aggressive and undesirable.
I Totally agree.. you have had sooo many Pitties shown. You could have picked one of them Especially since it is so important to show and change the publics perception of these beautiful awesome animals.. just sayng :)
Don't agree. Do your research and see how many family pets have maimed or killed other pets or human beings. Pit bulls should be banned as pets.
@Zazu, you are PRECISELY the reason why we are all posting that a bullied breed should be the face of the calendar! You are not solving the problem by protesting pitbulls as companion animals. You are FURTHERING the problem and solidifying the belief that bullied, misunderstood breeds are just that. You have no platform here. And please, do not lecture on your shallow and very limited experience with pitbulls and rottis. Let me remind you that Kiya aka Puppy Doe from Massachusetts was a pitbull who was noted as incredibly sweet by her emergency vet despite the abuse and torture she endured. And if that case doesn't suit you, then perhaps the case of Patrick from NJ (who was found in the trash starved to death but now resides happily as a king in his forever home) will resonate with you and open your mind a crack.
I think it is how the pitbull is reared....it is the jerks who do not show love to the animals or create the monster dog not a loving dog.
You guys are SO right! It is how the pet is raised and treated by his owners!!
I agree too! It is so sad how many awesome so called aggressive breeds are perceived. I know so many rottweilers, pits and others that are so loving and well behaved. Even easy to train! Its the owners and the abusers that cause the misunderstanding.
Hi, I have to tell you, sad as it is, and I have rescued many dogs, I had a pit baby who came to me as a tiny little girl, and was raised with love and affection at all times. My son, a born dog whisperer, has a scar from the corner of his eye, due to the sweet puppy's biting him e. As she grew to maturity, she became more protective of us, and bit people who came to the house. We chastised her, but not with any physical force as I have never found that necessary with a dog. The kids were young, and opened and closed the door, and two times she got out. One time she knocked over a bicyclist riding in front of our house, and then tried to bite him. One time she bit an old person simply power walking in front of our house. She was trying her best to protect us, I think.
We live near a school, and there was too much danger. As a family, we decided to put her down, as no one would take her. Simultaneously with the decision, animal control had been called by the woman who was bitten, and they took her in from us. It was a tragedy for our family.
This has not stopped us from adopting dogs in need, and my daughter has a half pit adopted girl doggy. But our "Baby" (yes, we named her that) was hell bent to bite anyone not in her family, and it was not as a result of mistreatment or lack of training.


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For some time now I've been threatening to write a critique of Irish blogs but I have been hesitant to publish it. It's a can of worms and I'm not sure I want to be the one to open it. Watching the excellent Rince ar Phár series on TG4 recently, Alan Titley's comment on the importance of criticism for the development of Irish language literature got me thinking. He spoke about his early days as a critic, he didn't know too many of the people in Irish literary circles and he gave honest and not always complimentary reviews. They weren't well-received, so he decided to hold his whist; if he couldn't say anything nice, he'd say nothing at all. I think that some parallels can be drawn between literature in a minority language and publishing in the minority media. Like Irish language literary circles, the Irish blogging community is small. There is a sense of camaraderie, everyone is very nice to one another. This is not to imply that they shouldn't be... but it means that all too often, comments are favourable to the point of sycophancy, dissenters are dismissed as bitter cranks and cynics. An unfavourable review is seen to be impolite and criticism poses a threat; it may cause personal offence, when none is meant.
While I love the sense of camaraderie and community that comes from both the Irish language and blogging, it frustrates me too. Balls to brothers in arms. Let's sort the wheat from the chaff. For blogging to become a valid medium for writers, we need to spend less time congratulating one another simply for being bloggers and actually work to ensure that the bloggers of note are those keeping blogs of note. Make it more about content and less about the cult of personality.
Because right now it feels like an ugly popularity contest. I can only assume that the A-listers of the Irish blogging world are lovely, lovely people because to be frank, some of them are shit-awful writers. I shouldn't need to point out (but I will anyway) that this is intended as a critique of the blogs themselves, and not of the bloggers. There are an awful lot of people out there who need to get themselves a good editor, or whose blogs need a harsh fucking review.
It's a little over a year since I started to keep my own blog. I've acquired a steady readership in that time and am only now beginning to wonder where it is I fit into the Irish blogging community, if I fit in here at all. This blog has recently drawn comparisons with a few others that were meant to be favourable but which I was more than dismayed by; I may be single, female and living in Dublin but fuck me, I'm a far cry from a flirtysomething. I mean no slight to its author but that blog epitomises for me all that I dislike about Dublin (and I hate that I dislike anything about this city) - it is to blogs what Café an Seine is to pubs and I think it perpetuates an unhealthy and unhelpful stereotype. Is this the company readers see me in? It's certainly not company I would choose for my blog to keep and it got me thinking about my own list of Pretend Friends. I don't read all of them, or at least I don't read all of them often enough to give them space in my already overcrowded feed reader. Should I add a caveat like Gimme's? Would his People I like/Respect/Feel grudgingly obliged to link be appropriate? Perhaps.
Hailed as king of the bloggers is the brains behind the Irish Blog Awards, Damien Mulley. I admire Mulley as a social entrepreneur (or as an entrepreneur, at any rate) but his blog leaves me cold. I'll dip into it occasionally because I see that so many others link to it and wonder that I might be missing something, but the more I read of it the more I think not. I don't find it particularly topical or interesting, if it were a radio show it would be Ray D'Arcy's (I do not understand the popularity of Ray D'Arcy either) and I am surprised that so many people subscribe to it. That said, he deserves sincere praise for his work to establish the Irish Blog Awards. Perhaps linking to his blog is how people show their appreciation?
The awards, however, are not without their problems. I was disappointed in them - not just for the night that was in it (though I should have expected that the event would be just as it was) but because I didn't feel that many of the winners deserved their accolades. My expectations were unrealistic - the awards are not the Booker. They are a by the people, for the people affair and while these particular people may be more literate than most, there is still a strong element of lowest-common-denominator culture winning out.
I was disappointed particularly in the winner of the Best Use of the Irish Language category. I was a nominee but let that be neither here nor there, I was disappointed because the winner writes in Irish about Irish, which has to be one of the most deathly boring things one can blog about. I work as a cultural officer to promote the language and I'm not interested enough to read it, why would anyone else be? Gaeilgeoirí have little interest - the posts generate precious few comments. It would certainly not entice people who don't speak Irish to try to read it, to sit down with the dictionary and work out the gist of it for themselves.
The shortlists for the other categories disappointed me just as much. It's not that I expect all good blogs to be prize pieces of literature - there are plenty I enjoy simply because the stories they tell are human ones and they tell them in a plain, unmanipulative and earnest way. But there are others which are little more than turgid regurgitations of the news with some self-righteous indignation thrown in for good measure, more still which are nothing but You Tube tenpenny bags. They have little to recommend them or to hold my interest and I'm baffled by their popularity.
The awards are not entirely without merit, they do help to highlight blogging as a medium and they do encourage bloggers to interact with one another. I'm all for hugs and pints, but it would be nice if the awards had offered some encouragement to up my own game, rather than leaving me disillusioned and wondering if I've just gotten the wrong end of the stick altogether as far as this blogging lark goes.
This is all just a matter of personal opinion. It matters not a jot. But knowing that I am not the type of blogger who will ever write a Nokia N95 winning post at least gives me the freedom to rock the boat a little and try to promote a little debate (not dissent) in the ranks. I am sure that there are others out there who read blogs and who share my frustration at seeing excellent posts by engaging writers overlooked while lazy posts by popular writers spark their own message boards. This may well turn out to be an exercise in how to lose pretend friends and piss people off, but for the love of the game I'll consider that a risk worth taking.


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The holiday season is crucial for small businesses--especially those in retail. As the owners of a start-up retail operation--it's called Altruette, and we sell jewelry charms associated with charitable causes--we found that last year close to 60% of our sales came in the weeks leading up to the end of the year. This fact radically changed how we do our own shopping. To us, there's no better feeling than supporting entrepreneurs who have poured their heart and soul into getting a product they truly believe in to market. To that end we've rounded up our favorite gifts made by small companies. Happy holidays!
How's this for a sweet story: Dawn Casale began baking in her tiny West Village flat in New York City, quit her job at Barney's, opened a shop, and hired a pastry chef…who would eventually become her husband. (He spelled out "Will You Marry Me" in sugar cookies and asked her to check the oven). One Girl's tiny delicacies--like this assortment of Whoopie Pies--are almost too pretty to eat. But One Girl's second store in Brooklyn was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Pitch in to get this beloved shop back up and running!
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Tegu's magnetic blocks are so addictively pleasing to play with that even adults will find themselves fiddling with them. Tegu was founded by Chris Haughey in Honduras (the name is derived from Tegucigalpa, the capital city). Every block is made from Forest Stewardship Council-certified trees, and Tegu prides itself on paying living wages, promoting from within, and donating a portion of revenue to replanting efforts. This pocket pack is perfectly sized for keeping little hands busy during errands or holiday travel. (Or keeping bigger hands busy during that conference call that just won't end.)
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These gorgeous cutting boards by Philadelphia-based Lostine are collaboration between creative director Robert Ogden and Tyler Hays, a fellow Philadelphian and owner of custom furniture company BDDW. Hays used smaller pieces of domestic hardwood created in the making of Lostine's larger furniture pieces, and finished the boards with vegetable tanned leather, food-safe milk paint, and grape seed oil.
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In 2006, techies Patrick Buckley and Craig Dalton met while training for the Ironman. Buckly, a mechanical engineer and Dalton, a veteran of several start-ups dreamed up DODOCase, a way to help keep the art of bookbinding alive and "off the extinction list" (where the Dodo bird resides). It adapts the techniques to the modern world of iPads, e-readers, and tablets. Its San Francisco HQ includes an in-house print shop, bookbindery, and wood shop.
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When Erin Brennan Allan moved to Kenya after 9/11 to work at a school for children with special needs it was certainly a change from her old life, which included working for Tina Brown at Talk Magazine. Eventually, Allan, by then a mother herself, created Toto Knits as a way for local women--many of them single mothers--to use their knitting skills to earn a living. All her products are made with organic cotton and bio-friendly dyes.
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Northwest tastemaker April Allison founded the innovative Kaars Koker in 2008 as a way to reinvigorate the tired world of chandeliers with colorful patterned "sleeves" printed with everything from latticework to skulls. More recently she launched the kkCandlestick--traditional silver or brass candlesticks you can customize with a huge range of prints to dress up a holiday table.
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These adorable (and customizable) photo flashcards are from Pinhole Press (founded as a division of family owned Mohawk Fine Papers and is now owned by Bay Area-based liveBooks). The cards serve double duty: not only do they help toddlers learn the names of their nearest and dearest, they're so well designed you won't mind seeing them splayed across your living room. Uploading photos is a snap on Pinhole's site.
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Sister and brother duo Amy and Andy Finkel have long been pet lovers, and their line of feeders, leash hooks, and pet accessories made out of powder-coated steel make the perfect present. (Did you know that raised feeders facilitate better health for animals by aiding digestion and reducing back and neck pain?) Their feeders come in breed specific designs--beagle, boxer, Boston terrier to name a few--as well as mod designs like The Temple, in bright pops of color.
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