I’m about to leave for Burning Man and I feel very lucky to say that. I first went 10 years ago, and this will be my 8th ‘burn’ since 1996. Though my enthusiasm has scaled down some, especially after the near-collective malaise of last year, I still expect it to be the single best [...]

        
A couple months back Dogster, Inc passed 100,000 users total. Today Dogster.com saw the addition of it’s 100,000th dog profile. I can still recall the day I said, “if Dogster gets to 10,000 dogs I’ll deal with the problem when I get to it.” Petastically, Catster passed 40,000 cats on Saturday. Both sites are [...]

Dave Winer is one of the most revered bloggers around. He’s been blogging the same format since April 1997 He wrote Radioland - among other notable software - one of the first blogging tools which still to this day has unique features, like an easily changeable title image slot that always appears behind the site [...]

For years now I’ve heard Molly drop the science of Webzine on me, the web publishers gathering that began before the tech boom and stayed independent through out it. At SXSW this year Eddie Codel refelt the love of independent publishing again and said I gotta tell Ryan, we’re getting Webzine back together. The three [...]

            
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Since Dogster took off, one product I’m constantly prowling for is a net-enabled cam that affixes to one’s dog collar that could beam photos at interval or on-demand photos to a webserver or as an email or SMS attachment. Ideally Dogster aligns with the producer early and becomes a primary distributor :P
I’ve seen some [...]

I spent Saturday day and night at BarCamp, an open-invite 48 hour internet geek gathering in Palo Alto yesterday and it was the best sunny Saturday I’ve spent in an office ever. 70 or so coder/hacker types came together to share what they’ve been working on, understand what others are doing and thinking about, and [...]

I recently read an explanation of successful community websites by Jyri Engström, a Finish PhD student. He describes the glue behind long-lasting community-focused sites as ‘object-centered sociality.’ While we can’t forget the glue in some of the best community sites is finding sex or bargains, I can’t agree with him more. Since day one the [...]