A couple years ago I helped build this site for researchers at Yale studying the effectiveness of various “get out the vote” efforts. Scott Beauchamp (a colleague from my Winfire days) dropped me a note yesterday saying the site was linked in a couple of places from a great article on Slate discussing the contrasting [...]
Visual changes in WordPress 2.7 revealed
October 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A few days ago, the WordPress blog unveiled the visual design of the upcoming WordPress 2.7 expected to be released in a few weeks. While this won’t offer dramatic changes to readers of this or any other WordPress-powered blog, it offers some really nice improvements for those of us who publish a blog. Here’s a preview [...]
Pinging your network
October 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I got hooked on the concept of Twitter when it took off at SXSW 2007. I don’t often have time to write an essay, but I can generally manage 140 characters. Over time, I’ve tried and tested a number of Twitter-like micro-blogging networks. Jaiku, Plurk, FriendFeed. And social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook allow a similar status [...]
Project Friday
October 10, 2008 By 8 Comments
My schedule this week gives me this Friday to do whatever the hell I want. And today, what I want entails tackling some personal projects that have been hovering overhead for some time. And I’m using Things for the iPhone to help manage it all. Things is a nice little commercial iPhone app that dovetails [...]
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