Tomorrow, October 14, 2017, will be my 49th birthday. Before I start getting bombarded with AI-prompted well-wishing I thought I'd take a few moments to do a personal inventory at this point in my life. Warning: personal stuff ahead. Family. I've been lucky to have two great kids, healthy and relatively happy, and a great … Continue reading Birthday Inventory 2017
Author: Evan Prodromou
Research Director at Social Web Foundation. Past founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR. Co-creator of GNU Social, creator of pump.io. Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. In Montreal, from San Francisco. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian. Husband, father, cook, gardener.
Wikipedia is a two-way street
tl;dr Publishers that re-use Wikipedia content, like Apple and Microsoft and Amazon and Google, have an obligation to include an easy way to edit that content. I've had a ton of fun over the last couple of days at the Wikimania 2017 conference in Montreal. The event brought together 900 people from around the world … Continue reading Wikipedia is a two-way street
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"I really admired the way Richard built up an entire political movement to address an issue of profound personal concern," Sarah said, explaining her attraction to Stallman. My wife immediately threw back the question: "What was the issue?" "Crushing loneliness." Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, 2002. I thought it might be a good idea … Continue reading YxYY 005
Earbuds update
A lot of people have been worried about my headphones situation so I thought I'd give a quick update here. If you're joining for the first time: I was breaking a pair of earbuds about once per week. I wear them for walking around, weightlifting and running. Because I was going through them so often, … Continue reading Earbuds update
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