For the 169th anniversary of the public release of the daguerreotype process Wired has published 3 articles on the daguerreotype including one explaining (more or less) the process itself.
Jon Lewis wrote:I suppose the question would then be: did you know?
Haha, no! They used a lot of my verbiage but never contacted me. I posted an instructable a couple of years ago which netted me quite a deal of Internet 2.0-type attention. I suspect that the instructable was the source of a great deal of the research.