I have upgraded to Wordpress 2.3, though I had been running alpha, beta, and release candidates for a while). Now that the final release is out I decided to move to a new theme. I had heard that the new Wordpress 2.3 default theme was going to be based on Sandbox. Unfortunately [...]
Have you ever noticed how the longer you know someone, the more frequently they tell you stories you have already heard? I suspect we all have this set of stories that we tell; I know I do. These are stories that have had a memorable impact on us in some way shape or [...]
Last weekend a couple of friends we haven’t seen in a while joined us for brunch at our house. I knew Dan and Lisa from Nashville (though through different circles), but we became much better friends while I lived in DC (where they still live). Sabrina and I used to go over the [...]
I signed up for Twitter on March 7th, 2007. In the six months since then I have 1159 “tweets”. I have looked at other microblogging tools, but haven’t had a compelling reason to use them (aside from a handful of Facebook status updates). While I am a big fan of microblogging in [...]
One of the greatest things about having a blog is being able to go back in time and read what I was thinking at the time. I can go to similar phases of my life and read the cryptic clues to what I was experiencing.
One year ago today I posted about mobile blogging with flickr. [...]
I have been hearing people talking about Lifestreaming more and more lately. It is one of those words that is just vague enough that I am not sure what it means and just familiar enough that I feel like I know what it means. The problem is that I couldn’t decide between two [...]
Back when I first started putting bits and bites on the internet, it was important to be listed in the DMOZ directory. To be listed in DMOZ you must choose the single category that best describes your site. At the time, jaxn.org was mostly a place for me to showcase my code (primarily [...]
Man, Chris Wage just perfectly summed up the core of something I have tried to express before. You should go read his post and then come back.
Really.
The interesting thing is that, like Chris, I have been visible essentially from day 1. This has saved me the embarrassment of someone “finding me out”. [...]
I just read Joel’s endorsement of the idea that comments on blogs are harmful to open discourse. I understand where he (and Dave Winer) are coming from, but it just isn’t true.
Here is how Joel sees comments:
When a blog allows comments right below the writer’s post, what you get is a bunch of interesting ideas, [...]
There is a great article in the current issue of Wired about using human intelligence to collect data that computers have been having a hard time collecting. This is not the same mundane crowd-sourcing shit as Mechanical Turk though. It is more like SETI@home in that it is kinda using “spare cycles” for [...]
