ShoZu Phonecam Upload Bugs

Open letter to Shozu, because you don’t have a public bug tracker:

When i take a photo and the one-click automatic upload runs, Shozu asks if i want to open BlueTooth…!?! Then it uploads normally to Flickr.
When i delete a photo from within Shozu, it corrupts the file so that the image disappears from Shozu’s list, […]

The New Openness: Transparency, Sharing, and the Inside-Out Generation Gap

my watch-phrase used to be “The New Openness”; something Trevor Goodchild said once on an old animated episode of Æon Flvx, that sparked a fire in my gut around the fearlessness and power that stemmed from revealing everything (or at least more than people expected). As a kid, I was quite secretive about my ideas […]

Fighting Link Spam in the trenches

(from DieSpammersDie on Tools to Make Tools)
The Problem
Because FeedMeLinks has a decent Google Page-Rank and a deliberately low barrier to entry, “link spammers” have discovered the site and are posting hundred of almost identical URLs to the site in order to promote other online properties. This disturbs users and dillutes the value of the site […]

Spy on my code commits

Before i knew about things like attention streams and Trac, there was CIA.
CIA is a great concept that happened almost before its time — a website for developers to stream status information into from their open source projects. CIA was like the giant train station schedule sign clicking away as a million trains, or coders, […]

…C.I.A.?

No, the government’s not after your source code (unless it’s DeCSS or something).
CIA is a website for viewing changes to source control repositories. It’s great stuff.
CIA connects to subversion, CVS, or bitkeeper — your version-control system of choice. In short, you download a CIA client for your system and hook it to your VC server. […]