Recently I've been reading the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck and it's really making me think. In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting...
I've been working as part of the blork community lately. What is a blork? It's basically a decentralized Twitter like app that runs on RSS. You post status updates that get posted to your RSS Feed, then you follow other RSS feeds. The problem? RSS is not particularly user...
Today I shipped a little app of mine called TwitOPML. I'm now freaked out. What if a ton of people start using it? What if nobody uses it? I shot an e-mail about it to the EC2 for Poets mailing list, so most likely somebody will try it out. In fact, I pretty much developed...
Note: As of March 23, 2021 I've closed the Nofollow Links plugin. It had some use, but since the links panel wasn't enabled by default in WordPress anymore, I decided to put it to rest. This is a plugin designed to allow you to append nofollow to the rel attribute of selected...
I previously railed against the trend of digital sharecropping in my post Giving Up On Web Ownership. The task of taking ownership of your digital identity can be very difficult when you try to replicate the functionality of all the different sites you might use. Trying to...
Today's episode of Rebooting The News Jay was out of town so Dave had on Adam Curry and yours truly! I wish I could say I was invited to be a guest, but Dave was just taking calls and picked me. On the show I talk about my work trying to use WordPress as a microblog platform. ...
Last year when I was helping organize BarCamp Madison 2011 I was busy getting the website set up. I set up a WordPress site and planned on getting modules installed to handle registrations and session tracking. Before I even got a chance to do anything other members of the...
My life needs fixing. There are a lot of things going on that I need to repair. Some of which are: Lose weight, get in shape Develop the power to avoid procrastination Improve my concentration Start my own business I think the key to solving these problems is to put...
I'm not a huge fan of new years resolutions. I think most people throw out some big vague goal like "lose weight" or "start my own business" then forget about it by the end of January. I was just thinking of a different approach to new years resolutions....
I've been rolling around in my head for a while now about the best way to publish structured data via RSS. My primary use case is with syndicating data between websites, especially social networks like Brazen Careerist. I like the idea of pulling in a feed that has more...