Recent Offsite Work: Code and Prose
Code
SavePublishing.com, a bookmarklet that identifies just the tweetable sentences on web pages, making it very easy to find direct quotes for tweeting purposes. Try it!
It is entirely open-sourced in every way. Visit the Github repository for SavePublishing
Some of the folks at the local paper asked me to talk about it, so I made up some slides. Without me in the room I doubt they make much sense, which goes to show that you should always have one of me handy to talk things over.
Prose
In the New York Times Magazine, a few words on a personal hero, George Miller, creator of WordNet.
In New York Magazine (print and web): A piece on scaling websites, and scaling the Occupy movement, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and another piece on thoughts on mass logo outrage (crowdsmashing).
In The Morning News, Heaven can Wait, some advice to the godless who want to make out with the godful.
In Slate, Authentocracy in America, a book review that veers into a discussion of the American Authentocracy™.
On Medium.com, A piece about summer rolls, as I learned about the new Medium CMS, and a piece about Christmas lights. Which we just took down (the lights, not the piece, it will be live forever).
In The Millions, some words on a book by the great radio entertainer Fred Allen.
In the latest Print Magazine, issue not yet online, a piece about seeking design inspiration from spreadsheets, in the “Interactions” slot.