I do not take love lightly, so when I say that I have fallen, it is serious! I am delighted to have found a tech writer who provides ample illustration and explanation for difficult (for me) technical material while simultaneously inserting a little humour into the mix...bravo! Is it possible that Mr. (?) del Negro has other such manuals/guide/papers on the subjects that we'll be covering in the future? If he has...please, please let us read his explanations from now on. I will be starting a fan club devoted to this great (wo)man?
I thought that the distinction del Negro made about the notion of "stuff" and "information" was quite useful for understanding the subtleties of compression. I feel that I have a pretty good grasp of the benefits and limitations of both lossy (smaller files; best for audio,video, still images, fidelity) and lossless (used for bank files, text-based materials, suffers from generation loss after repeated comp/decomp) compression methods. Although, in all fairness, the Data Compression wikipedia article did a nice job of explaining, too. It was, however, nice to see that somebody (del Negro) in the technical writing field with a sense of humour....binary data chunks, hmmmm.
The YouTube article was kind of old news as many faculty and other folks in education are using this forum for instructional/organisational purposes. My kids appear in a nice still-image collage for a friend of mine who teaches college french(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkwOQKhjbQQ) .
The short piece on the "Imaging Pittsburgh" project was good for some background. I work at the Heinz History Center which was part of this partnership. I have used the Historic Pittsburgh site several times, in my research, for the finding aid I have been assigned to create. I am curious about the Digital Research Library here...I would like to know what their views are regarding the cost of digitization versus the benefits, which in the case of the Historic Pitt. site, are clearly demonstrable.
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Yea! Another Rui Del Negro fan!
I, too, found his/her writing style to be extremely readable and informative. I loved the little sly comments that he/she slipped in every once in a while.
He/she really helped me to understand data compression in a concrete way, much better than the wikipedia article ever did.
So... when do we get "I *heart* del Negro" t-shirts? :)
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