2008
13 posts
March
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The streets of San Francisco and Fashionist.
Mai rules. Check these out. The pictures below are from Mai's site, Fashionist . At Fashionist, she's been posting hundreds of photos of people she sees on San Francisco's streets…
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Starred to Shared in Reader.
From to A couple of years ago we made an option in Reader to share tags. Back then, there wasn't yet a dedicated page to shared items, or a "Share" button, or services aggregating…
June
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Four Firsts for Feeds
Other posts about Reader Considering Google Reader Lore. About Google Reader's Birth: Part 1. About Google Reader's Birth: Part 2. Dreams, discernment, and Google Reader For the…
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Leaving Google
How can I accurately summarize such a cardinal set of events? It may take me years. An intense era of personal sacrifice and accomplishment is about to give way to something new…
July
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A breakdown of what Viacom was granted and denied in the recent ruling in its case against YouTube.
Because I hadn't seen one yet, I thought I'd compile a small breakdown of what Viacom asked the court to order Google to reveal - along with some excerpts of the ruling. The…
September
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Are You Experienced? Palin and Obama. A Comparison.
Y’all, circumstances have induced me to put my hand in the toilet . Now I'm posting about politics. I'm so disappointed in myself. :( So... Recently (and especially tonight)…
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Defending against the spin. So frustrating. [Corrections about candidates]
1) Watch it get thrown. 2) *sigh* Correct it. I'm trying to sort out the chaff from the messaging wheat about our candidates for the U.S. executive branch...so I'm making another…
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The Hidden Power: David Addington
David Addington is Chief of Staff for Vice President Cheney. Here's an excerpt from a profile about him in the New Yorker from a couple of years ago . Most Americans, even those…
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I'm the newest member of Obama's Florida for Change office. (C'mon down.)
I was interested in doing more with my time than research and commentary for the US Presidential Election so in the beginning of October I'll become an in-state volunteer for the…
October
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Florida and Campaigning, Little Stories
The New Volunteer Just after General Powell's endorsement of Obama for President, a bulldog of a man walks into the office, hands us his business card, and asks what volunteer work…
November
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Possibly true trivia about U.S. Cabinet positions.
Jefferson, Monroe, and Van Buren were all Secretaries of State who later became President. source Jefferson, Calhoun, and Van Buren were all Secretaries of State who later became…
December
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Santas! (A "shibboleth" service.)
Since I needed to crack my knuckles and have a warm-up, programming-wise, I made a small service for creating a Secret Santa list . I've been thinking of web services like these as…
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Pegs, an experiment in page layout and interaction.
Now that I'm thinking harder about page consumption again, I wanted to surface an old experiment from when I was working on Reader. I'm wondering if a better-executed version of…