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Times Open Nerd Merit Badge

February 22, 2009

The New York Times contacted John and I a few a weeks ago about creating a special Nerd Merit Badge for their Times Open event on Friday 2/20. They were using this event to educate developers about different api’s they have released or working on. We were able to make it to the event and it was a blast. It was full of meaty content and really demonstrated what you could do with so much open content.

Here is a picture of the badge we created along with all of the other badges.

NYT Open Badge + Friends

5 Comments | Tags: awesomesauce

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   February 23, 2009 at 5:31 am

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   February 23, 2009 at 11:13 am

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   February 24, 2009 at 2:06 am

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   September 7, 2009 at 11:23 am

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