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/

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

Marc Benioff is doing the right thing. Every founder should take note.

Marc Benioff, the CEO at Salesforce, is cancelling all programs in Indiana: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he doesn’t want his employees subjected to discrimination as part of their work for the San Francisco-based company, and he is cancelling all required travel to the state of Indiana following the