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Category: Teachers Without Borders

Teachers Without Borders

Posted on September 3, 2008November 1, 2021

During the day and lately most of the night I work as a Fellow for Teachers Without Borders at Utah State University. (funded by Cisco). What I actually do bores most people and causes my wife to roll her eyes and tune out anytime someone asks what I do. It’s a long story and involves…

Turn WordPress Into Social Butterfly

Posted on March 6, 2008November 1, 2021

I have been pitching this idea of a distributed social network to everyone that can stand to listen to me. I realize that the conversation around WordPress and the future of social networking is heating up, but as it does I think it is important to begin thinking about implementation. It is fun to philosophize,…

Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE

Posted on March 4, 2008November 1, 2021

I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you can’t count a couple thousand users as especially successful. When Open Social started up I felt like I needed to go sign up for a…

What I Do for a Living

Posted on January 28, 2008November 1, 2021

People ask me what I do for a living and I gave up explaining a long time ago. Now I just say I write software and for those that don’t understand that I tell them I work with computers. (No I will not fix yours). In spite of my general disdain for explaining what I…

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