I’ve been working as part of the blork community lately.  What is a blork?  It’s basically a decentralized Twitter like app that runs on RSS.  You post status updates that get posted to your RSS Feed, then you follow other RSS feeds.  The problem? RSS is not particularly user friendly.  You have to find the [...]

Today I shipped a little app of mine called TwitOPML.  I’m now freaked out.  What if a ton of people start using it?  What if nobody uses it?  I shot an e-mail about it to the EC2 for Poets mailing list, so most likely somebody will try it out.  In fact I pretty much developed [...]

I previously railed against the trend of digital sharecropping in my post Giving Up On Web Ownership. The task of taking ownership of your digital identity can be very difficult when you try to replicate the functionality of all the different sites you might use. Trying to create owned versions of Twitter, Facebook, Quora, Delicious, [...]

Today’s episode of Rebooting The News Jay was out of town so Dave had on Adam Curry and yours truly!  I wish I could say I was invited to be a guest, but Dave was just taking calls and picked me.  On the show I talk about my work trying to use WordPress as a [...]

On Friday I discovered that my ’96 Buick LeSabre was dripping gasoline. I take it into the shop and find out they need to replace the fuel line. The gas tank may have to be replaced as well, but they won’t know until they take it out. There are also problems with my breaks and [...]