I am honored to be a recipient of this year’s Google O’Reilly Open Source Award for being the “best community amplifier” for my work with the microformats, Spread Firefox and BarCamp communities! (See the original call for nominations). Inexplicably I was absent when they handed out the award, hanging out with folks at a Python/Django/jQuery [...]
Sometime yesterday morning I logged into my TextDrive account to make some more changes to my blog template and noticed two odd folders in my blog root directory called rh4m4.t35.com and www.kolortavil.org. I believe that the folders were empty, but nevertheless, it was clear that someone had broken into my site. I deleted the suspicious [...]
I know I’ve been beating the drum about hashtags for a while. People are either lukewarm to them or are annoyed and hate them. I get it. I do. But for some stupid reason I just can’t leave them alone. Anyway, today I think I saw a glimmer of the promise of the hashtag concept [...]