December 2007
4 posts
The New Social Identity
Chris Messina, an active member of the microformats community has been working with a group of developers on a new set of Wordpress plugins called DiSo.
A few weeks ago Chris sat down on Brian Oberkirch’s LikeItMatters podcast and talked about what benefits DiSo really gives you. In short, its really a culmination of Wordpress as a distributed social network platform. There are some awesome...
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Fractured Online Identities = Inevitible...
My friend and coworker Josh just pointed me to a post on Coding Horror about Fractured Identity syndromes. Where a person can stick around long enough to have 20 or 30 different identities that are hardly if ever aware of each other’s existences.
I’m more interested in shrinking my focus into an ever narrower and sharper point than I am in diluting my effort across dozens of different...
Microformats
So over the weekend I’ve been doing some work for a portal site looking at their infrastructure and experience and refreshing it a touch. I spent some time this week looking at how we can incorporate new social aspects into it, and one of the things that strikes immediately is the potential for using microformats. For anyone not familiar with them, microformats are essentially semantic...
Putting all my eggs in one online bucket
I’m trying to put the pieces of my social identity together. I’ve gotten a few things available now, but it feels pretty cliche. I don’t feel ready to say this blog is doing anything spectacular, but I think it looks nice. :) I noticed I don’t use my Flickr account, so I may try to take the plunge with SmugMug and start fresh. I don’t even own a digital camera over a...