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Category Archives: Opinion
20 Couples, All Different, All the Same
Rannie Turingan created this beautiful video slide show of 20 couples on twenty couches. He is an incredible Canadian photographer, who I previously heard about through mutual friends across the border in San Francisco.
Firefox 3 Saved, Cookies Still Too Tasty By Default
On Sunday, Mozilla developers reverted a change to cookie handling that was going to make web mashup and widget developers’ lives horrible in Firefox 3 — it would likely have been a disaster for Firefox and Mozilla. Thank you team Mozilla for addressing this in such a timely manner!
Updating WordPress Plugins 2.2 to 2.3 and to 2.5
Jennifer Hodgdon, WordPress Plugin Development Documenter extraordinaire, has written Migrating Plugins and Themes. This seems like a great resource for the WordPress plugin developer who may have been putting off updating their blogs.
As she says, “it’s a Wiki — feel free to add/clarify/edit/fix.”
Jennifer continues to provide essential contributions both to the codex and in development. The new tag interface in Write and Manage->Tags in 2.5 are largely her work. Jennifer, I salute you!
WordPress 2.5 beta is coming soon!
15 Minutes to Publish!
Down to a few few seconds after migrating China Digital Times from Movable Type to WordPress.
Go to the Scot Hacker Bird House and read Notes on a Massive WordPress Migration. Scott, the webmaster of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and O’Reilly author knows his stuff, and backs it up with the data. Brilliant insights!
Senior QA Engineer Jacky Zhang now with Genologics
I had lunch with the very talented and personably Jacky Zhang today. It was nice catching up with him after many, many months since we have had a good face to face chat. Earlier this month Jacky left Flock and is now working for Victoria’s Genologics.
Although, having an amazing experience with Flock this position with Genologics sounds like a natural next step in his career. He is working as an integrated member of a small development team on life sciences research solutions developed using Java and Oracle DB. It is a very technical role and his responsibilities include unit and integration testing.
Congratulations Jacky and Genologics!
Chris Messina and Friends Productions
“This is true”, Chris Messina giggles at a minute thirty of Citizen Garden Episode 1: Winter Solstice Edition in response to Larry Halff asking him about being involved in a social networking project. If you know Chris, you know “this is true” is a chrisism. If you don’t, I’m excited that he and friends Larry, Tara Hunt, Brian Oberkirch and more have recently started giving us great opportunity to get to know their isms with at least two productions:
- Podcast Citizen Garden, “seeding the citizen web”
- Videocast OpenMediaWeb, “exploring the possibilities and opportunities of the Open Media Web and developing the methods, formats and protocols to make it possible.”
Both already have a couple great sessions and other content. Enjoy!
Bootup Labs – Vancouver Tech Startup Incubator
Boris Mann and Danny Robinson have started a technology startup incubator called Bootup Labs in Vancouver.
Scoble Broke Our Trust And The Law By Sharing Our Personal Data
I haven’t been able to influence Dennis Howlett or Thomas Otter into making clear arguments that supports their accusations, let along clear accusations, so here I will try to do that first step for them:
Scoble broke the law by sharing our personal data with Plaxo.
Serious Accusation, Scoble Shot The Sheriff
Dennis Howlett and Thomas Otter recently made serious accusations against Robert Scoble, explicitly stating that he has broken European Union law. They both use very strong language, no if, maybes, buts about it. Both have responded to my article. Unfortunately, to my frustration they continue to level these accusations without clear arguments and focus — arguments relying on quotes without legal context, colorful prose, but no reference of legal precedent. How such polarized positions and accusations suit their own interests is plain, but both have unmet responsibility to clearly present such serious accusations.