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,
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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,
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
For posterity.
See: http://activations.mozilla.org/
Forget the mass market: the untribe is the new normal.
There was one conversation I used to hate more than any other. I used to brace myself for it; grit my teeth in anticipation. Here's how it would happen. "Where are you from?" someone would ask, detecting that my accent wasn't quite British; something
ma
Excellent dinner company.
Celebrating ma's birthday, now with added lactose. #ma #dad #family
Indieweb
Introducing the Indie Dash Button! #indieweb #vrm
We've all been there: you're standing by the washing machine, about to start a load, and you realize you're out of laundry detergent. Or you're getting ready for bed and you realize you've forgotten to buy more mouthwash. Less often,
For some reason, my parents sent me to a Christian school.
This was the result. We were tasked with writing about the Ark of the Covenant; I wrote a graphic novel. I wasn't expelled, and all in all got in less trouble than that time I wrote a story about Jesus going on a shooting spree. I was not