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.

• July 18th, 2007

  Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/07/18

  This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/07/18 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the Digg Statisical [...]

• July 11th, 2007

  Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/07/11

  This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/07/11 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the Digg Statisical [...]

• July 10th, 2007

  Twitter: What *are* people doing?

  Twitter exists solely for people to answer the question “What are you doing?”, and its users have been answering that question thousands of times per day since it launched. In an effort to find out what exactly Twitter’s users are doing, I checked a sample of 500,000 tweets to see what the most common “-ing” [...]

• July 5th, 2007

  Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/07/04

  This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/07/04 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the Digg Statisical [...]

• July 5th, 2007

  Pownce Invites Update

  Everyone who requested a Pownce invite yesterday should have received one from me; if you didn’t, let me know, and I’ll resend it. Moreover, I’ve determined how to obtain an infinite number of invites, so if you still want one, let me know in the comments. Again, here I am on Pownce. So far, I [...]

• July 4th, 2007

  Pownce Invites

  I’ve got some Pownce invites; leave a comment if you want one. If you’re on Pownce, let me know so I can add you as a friend. Here I am on Pownce.

• June 26th, 2007

  AOL News and Netscape.com

  AOL News has undergone a redesign to be more “bloggy” (according to Reuters). Part of this update is that now they’re featuring the top stories at Netscape.com under the “User Submitted News” in the left-hand sidebar. I wouldn’t mind that section being a little higher up on the page though, maybe replacing any of the [...]

• June 22nd, 2007

  Diggers get what they want, don’t want it anymore

  Digg finally implemented threaded comments yesterday, and the top story on Digg right now is a harsh criticism of the new system. The consensus appears to be that while the new system is a step forward in terms of technical functionality, it’s two steps back for usability. New features on a large community site will [...]