Category Archives: Collaborating

We are the Internet

We really are the Internet.
“At its heart was a new kind of participation that has since developed into an emerging culture based on sharing.”
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Flickr comment spam attack?

In the last 24 hrs I have seen 8 comment spam on the feed for photos I have commented on.
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Do Follow WordPress

WordPress’ Dougal Campbell reminds all us WordPress bloggers to Do Follow.
I consider this a must install WordPress plugin, essential for free culture to collaborate. Basically, what Kimmo Suominen’s dofollow plugin does is make your blog tell search engines that you think the links that commenters leave are important and part of a healthy Web.
Is there [...]

Computer Clubbin’ in Victoria

I have updated my list of Computer Clubs in Victoria which I started as a discussion on VLUG’s mailing list.
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Free Culture: My Open Source

Experience shared and built upon freely
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Leave A Trail

‘”Leave A Trail.” Tangible work products are critical, but they shouldn’t be artificial, and they don’t have to be in the form of long, dry prose. A picture representing the outcome of your conversation or even the conversation itself counts as a tangible, for example. A blog entry also counts. The key is that the [...]

Ladder of Knowledge

As promised in The WordPress Podcast episode 13: “An interview with Matt Mullenweg (Part 2)”, Matt today made public 99% of our internal aggregate stats at WordPress.com to the world. This is very exciting to me!
Not because it shows how we we are doing (and will show when we screw up), because of the opportunities [...]

Laughing Squid Day

Laughing Squid is celebrating the start of its second decade! Primary tentacle Scott Beale is one of the best features of San Francisco.
If you are in San Fran, be there this weekend! Even though Julia and I will not — we were very tempted to fly down for the weekend, but I am cheap.
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Parakey?

No, not talking butter.
Parakey: a service, a product, a platform to bring life to the web by Firefox wonderboys? A “Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do”? IEEE Spectrum article
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Develop diverse widespread community commitment

Chris Messina in response to his own post (with a little help from Richard MacManus):
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