Faculty Profiles
Paul Ford : Author; associate editor, Harper's Magazine
Paul Ford is an editor at Harper’s Magazine, where he edits, designs, and programs the Harper’s website and edits for the print magazine as well.
In 2007 he launched a new version of Harpers.org featuring a quarter-million pages—every issue of the magazine published since 1850—scanned, searchable, and published to the web using a custom, Semantic Web-based content management system. His weblog Ftrain.com goes back to 1997, and he is the author of the novel Gary Benchley, Rock Star (Penguin/Plume) and a contributing writer for The Morning News, and has appeared many times on NPR’s All Things Considered. He programs in Java, Perl, and PHP, but he spends the bulk of his time hacking XML into RDF with XSLT2. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Former Clients Include: PinkSheets, McKinsey Consulting, Yamaha, DuPont, Graco/RubberMaid, JPMorgan Chase, MasterCard, KeySpan, XML.com, Citibank, Hewlett-Packard, Weight Watchers, KPMG
- Education
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BA, Alfred University
- Professional Experience
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Content consultant, Ai; senior writer, information architect, brand strategist, Doublespace
- Publications
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Gary Benchley, Rock Star
- On the Web
