After my post on Friday about Giving Up on Web Ownership a couple people pinged me asking how they would go about publishing to Twitter, without publishing in Twitter. Dave Winer is working on the problem with his minimal blogging tool but I was thinking… why can’t we do this with WordPress? So today I’m [...]
Read More...Last year when I was helping organize BarCamp Madison 2011 I was busy getting the website set up. I set up a WordPress site and planned on getting modules installed to handle registrations and session tracking. Before I even got a chance to do anything other members of the group set up an eventbrite event [...]
Read More...I own a lot of stuff. A rough estimate puts me at 600 CDs. There was a time I would buy 1-3 CDs every week but the last CDs I bought were back in December 2009 and I don’t think I’ve ever put those CDs in a CD player. I bought them, put them on [...]
Read More...I had an interesting conversation with my friend Monica last night. We talked about information overload and she brought up a term “News Poisoning” which means how you can poison your mind by watching the news. What do I mean by poisoning your mind? If you watch the news you may be afraid to leave [...]
Read More...My life needs fixing. There are a lot of things going on that I need to repair. Some of which are: Lose weight, get in shape Develop the power to avoid procrastination Improve my concentration Start my own business I think the key to solving these problems is to put those parts of my life [...]
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I'm Andrew Shell, a PHP developer in Madison, WI. I'm interested in exploring ways that I can leverage everything the internet offers without giving up the ownership of my content.