“We’re way too dependent on the Un-Internet., which behaves somewhat like the Internet, but has chokepoints that can cut off the flow. The whole point of the Internet, from the point of view of the US Govt, was that it couldn’t be cut off this way.” – Dave Winer * for those of you unfamiliar …
Monthly Archives: December 2011
A Great Story of Free Speech @ UW-Stout
It’s unfortunate that a ‘climate of sensitivity’ was enforced so heavy-handedly. It’s unfortunate so many other players had to get involved to re-establish common sense. Especially at a campus that – at least when I was there – had gun lockers in the dorms for students. I trust the administration and police will be more …
Client Launches: ExperienceLife.com & FellowInc.com
I’m happy to announce two new client sites launched this week: one for Experience Life magazine and one for Minneapolis advertising and design studio . Both sites are powered by a heavily-customized WordPress installation. The Experience Life effort included the development of a system to migrate 10 years of archives, comments, assets, URLs (including shortened …
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Get Fuzzy Opts Out and Dave wants a Badge
“I need a badge for my blog that says This is a Facebook-free Zone. There are no Like buttons. No Facebook comments. No bugs that report to anyone at Facebook that you are here and have read this page.” – Dave Winer
Introducing Typerighter.com – The Minimalist Writing on All Your Devices
“the perfect web based writing tool.” – Patrick Rhone On any given day, I’ll be interacting with 4-6 different internet-enabled devices (multiple laptops, a handheld, a couple of tablets) the only quality they share is a decent browser and I wanted a fast, simple way to update my writing across all of them. All the …
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Unblaze
“But a dangerous thing happens when we follow a trail: We stop paying attention to the environment. Since the trail is so easy to follow, we allow our minds to wander and neglect to observe where we are.”- Peter Bregman, 18 Minutes
Bottoms up product management
“Much of what made Twitter useful in the first place – Hashtags, @user and many other little Twitter specific conventions are hacks that were first adopted by users because Twitter didn’t support several key functions like groups or addressing a note to a specific user. Twitter has made the colossal mistake of trying to integrate …
My Favorite Sentences of the Day
“The beggars huddle for warmth within things called ‘industries’” – Richard Fink “If every additional user is putting money in the developers’ pockets, then you’re less likely to see the site disappear overnight.” – maciej
A Sure Sign of Goodness
I just notice two things: I haven’t written here in a while My browsers’ URL autocomplete for ‘garr’ defaults to the sub-domain of a mostly unannounced project I’m very excited about.
Boyd’s Annual Opt Out
“While I’m away, my lovely procmail file (aka “filtering software”) will direct all of my email to /dev/null (aka “the permanent trash”). I will not be reachable. The only person that I stay in contact with while I’m gone is my mother because it’s just too cruel to my mom to disappear entirely. Twitter and …