Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• March 7th, 2007

  Reddit: Jumping the shark as we speak

  At the moment, the top nine links at Reddit (plus 2 more in the next 15) are to various articles on the futile grassroots efforts to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Never mind that none of these impeachment proceedings are being carried out by any government bodies with legitimate power and that none [...]

• February 20th, 2007

  Netscape 9 Teasers: Week V

  My latest teaser for Netscape 9 is up at the Netscape blog: “Netscape 9 will include built-in tools to share, vote for, and discuss interesting things you find on the Web directly from the browser’s URL bar. [...] We feel that having these tools in the browser by default will introduce the idea of social [...]

• February 9th, 2007

  Ahead of the curve

  Business Week reports: “Later this year, Digg will launch a recommendation tool able to expose members to fellow Diggers who appear to have similar interests, says Rose. ‘Digg will be smart enough to know what interests you,’ says Rose. The site will identify those with like interests in part by the previous stories they have [...]

• January 20th, 2007

  The A to Z of me

  I’ve been thinking recently that it’d be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we? archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD. blog.netscape.com: the official [...]

• January 14th, 2007

  A gentleman and a scholar

  C.K. announced yesterday his departure from Netscape. It’s really too bad; he’s been an incredible boss and an exciting person to be around. I especially enjoyed the caffeine-fueled afternoon when we created the Netscape Digg Tracker. Good times, good times… He’ll be sorely missed, but I don’t harbor any sore feeling towards him for leaving. [...]

• January 3rd, 2007

  Social Traffic Monitor: A WordPress Plugin

  I’ve just put the finishing touches on version 1.0 of my first WordPress plugin, the Social Traffic Monitor. In a nutshell, it checks incoming traffic for visitors from social news sites (e.g., Netscape, Digg, Reddit) and when a post on your blog starts getting traffic from these sites, it begins to log each visit to [...]

• December 11th, 2006

  Where are Digg’s new features?

  On November 9, Wired Blogs ran an article “quoting” Digg founder Kevin Rose as saying that 20 new features would be added to Digg over the next month. (I say “quoting” because the phrase was not actually in quotes, but it can be deduced that Kevin said or implied it at some point during the [...]

• December 8th, 2006

  An early Christmas present for Digg

  Merry Christmas, Kevin Rose!