Point Lobos
Not pictured: the sound of birds and sea lions.
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Community is the most important part of open source (and most people get it wrong)
This post by Bill Mills about power and communication in open source is great: Being belittled and threatened and told to shut up as a matter of course when growing up is the experience of many; and it does not correlate to programming ability at all. It is not enough
10 things to consider about the future of web applications
Twitter - by far the social network that I use the most - is struggling to break 300 million monthly active users and is not hitting revenue targets. (Contrast with Facebook's 1.44 billion monthly actives.) Even investor Chris Sacca has warned that he's going to
Remembrance on Memorial Day
Memorial Day is an American holiday that commemerates people who have lost their lives in service to the United States. It's similar to Remembrance Day in the commonwealth countries, except that it's also a long weekend that marks the start of the summer. My dad spent
A walk in the park
"Daddy," Wendy said, looking up at the sky, the cloudless blue stretching opaquely in all directions. "Can people fly?" I smiled at her. "They say that some people can," I said. "Can I fly?" I shook my head, smiling. "No, honey,
Publish on your Own Site, Reflect Inwardly
Known gives you the ability to share the content you create across social media platforms at the point of publishing, with just one click. I'm deliberately not doing that with this post. If you're reading it, it's because you came to my site, or
sanfrancisco
Beautiful day in the neighborhood.
#sanfrancisco
Elgg and Known: how deep insight can help you build a better community platform
Ten years ago last November, we released the first version of Elgg. An open source social networking platform originally designed for higher education, where it was used by Harvard and Stanford, it spread to organizations like Oxfam, Orange, Hill & Knowlton and the World Bank, as well as national governments
Referer analytics are getting less useful all the time.
But I'm intrigued about the dolphin teeth.
The full-stack employer
Just over four years since I permanently moved to California, I'm beginning to understand the differences in work style between the US and Europe. America still has a largely time-based view of productivity, even in Silicon Valley. But with tech industries in other nations catching up fast, and
Convoy is a new kind of progressive enhancement for self-hosted web applications.
We just released Convoy, an add-on service for Known that lets you use our servers to more easily share content with social media. Previously, self-hosted site owners needed to create individual developer accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc, and manage API integrations with each one. It was a pain, and
For posterity.
See: http://activations.mozilla.org/