Category Archives: Personal

Life updates, reflections, and everything that doesn’t fit neatly into another category.

CoPress

November 4, 2009Personalcopress, WordPressMatt

CoPress Pushes Innovation, Shows Value of Open-Source Platforms.

GPL Win in France

September 25, 2009PersonalMatt

Big Win for GNU GPL in France.

How Twitter Works

September 3, 2009PersonaltwitterMatt

How Twitter works in theory, by Kevin Marks. “Phatic” gestures are important to understand if you’re building on the web.

Blog Mothership

August 24, 2009PersonalMatt

Your Blog is Your Mothership.

Gravatar

August 20, 2009PersonalAutomattic, gravatarMatt

Gravatar gets a light visual refresh, portent of things to come.

Diminishing Data

August 14, 2009Personalhal varian, nick carrMatt

The diminishing returns on data, by Nick Carr riffing on an interesting interview with Hal Varian.

Evolution of Blogging

August 13, 2009PersonalMatt

The Evolution of Blogging by Om Malik.

Real-Time, Productive Communication

August 13, 2009PersonalMatt

Real-Time, Productive Communication (using P2).

Clunker Broadband

August 8, 2009PersonalPoliticsMatt

Cash for Broadband instead of Clunkers.

App Store

August 2, 2009PersonalApple, iphoneMatt

Chris Messina on why Steve Jobs hates the App Store.

GPL FUD

July 28, 2009PersonalMatt

GPL FUD round N+1.

Favorite iPhone Apps

July 27, 2009PersonalMatt

The Favorite iPhone Apps of Five Geek Rock Stars.

Google Global Warming

July 16, 2009PersonalMatt

This is why Google is trying to solve global warming. So they can run their datacenters without A/C more days. 😉

Time Tracking

July 11, 2009PersonalMatt

Why I do Time Tracking, by Swaroop C H.

Live Web

July 2, 2009PersonalSearchMatt

Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will, It’s Gonna Take A While To Get It. Excellent article by Mary Hodder.

Real-time Systems Knowledge

June 29, 2009Personalfriendfeed, twitterMatt

Scoble: Real-time systems hurting long-term knowledge?

On Tekzilla

June 14, 2009PersonalpressMatt

I was on Tekzilla Episode 92, interviewed by the lovely Veronica Belmont.

Spam SEO

April 28, 2009PersonalAkismet, SpamMatt

Eliminating spam is good SEO.

PollDaddy PHP

April 23, 2009PersonalAutomattic, polldaddyMatt

PollDaddy just finished their big switch from ASP.NET/SQL to PHP/MySQL. Go and give the guys a virtual Guinness.

Blogs Are Dead

April 20, 2009PersonalMatt

Blogs are dead; long live the blog by Andrew Keen after our dinner in Amsterdam last week.