Listening to Ev and Joi talk about the open web

I’m watching the video between Joi Ito and Evan Williams talking about me. Technically Medium is no worse than other systems, and lately has become better, because it now has an API, as Ev is mentioning right now in the video as I’m listening to…

1999.io philosophy

I’m starting to write user docs for 1999.io, and thought I would share what might be the very first section, about the philosophy of the product.

1999.io is blogging software that’s easy to set up and use, with all the open features that blogging had in the year it all…

Bernie, enough with the Hillary bashing

Bernie starts off with a joke about what good friends he is with Donald Trump. The crowd gasps. Then he smiles. They laugh. He says “It’s not as if I went to his wedding or anything.”

American politics just changed, media and money in crisis

A few takeaways from tonight’s election in New Hampshire. American politics has changed. This is a turning point, a showdown. Media and money have to rethink their roles. Neither will change easily.

Universities and the open web

I mentioned in an earlier post that I visited the MIT Media Lab on the 11th of Feb. It was a great trip, just one day back and forth. I wanted to see the Media Lab with my own eyes, and reconnect with two longtime friends who are working there now.

Mozilla’s internal dialog on HTTPS

Nik Cubrilovic sent me a link to the page on Mozilla’s project management system where they decided to put a big red X through the icon for sites that are using HTTP, the standard protocol of the web, instead of their preferred HTTPS.

A structured notebook that I share

I want to share ideas that have some meaning to them, a way of creating value.

Think of it as deliberate metadata creation on a personal scale.

Secret handshakes of software

I read Walt Mossberg’s recent piece about how Twitter is too hard because of all the “secret handshakes.”

There’s no doubt it’s hard to come into a story late and catch up on all that’s happened along the way. That’s how software development processes…