Nobody Listens Anyway

Now that the weather has warmed up a bit around here all of a sudden all my neighbors want to put up fences. I’m not exactly sure what I did, but I must admit that it is a bit disappointing to see. For several years the houses and yards around us have been [...]

The Desert News is saying what we already know. Cache Valley is a great place to live. Of course the numbers don’t tell the actual story. This is a great place to live because it has a small town feel, the biking is awesome and people are friendly. The schools are [...]

The LDS cultural has encouraged personal history and journal writing since its inception. Ever since then the vast majority of the members have ignored this council and the overall level of guilt among the LDS faithful has continued to rise as each successive generation followed the example of the previous. Technology now provides [...]

When Digg was new I spent plenty of time following the latest news ‘dugg’ up by the community. Now I rarely go back. Somewhere along the line Digg became an online Frat house and I am no longer interested in the 10 ten latest shocking things or in hearing about Scientology or in [...]

Over the past few months I have talked quite a bit with Joel about online communities and about what philosophically makes a community. I think it is a group of individuals who collectively are interesting in something and need tools to facilitate communication and production of some artifact(s). The way the community [...]

Right now in Cache County each city has its own library system and citizens of one city are not allowed to checkout books from a library in another city unless they pay for a very expensive library card. This is unfortunate as it creates a barrier to information for those who really need it. [...]

I spent this afternoon with some really cool and interesting individuals from around utah. Matt Mullenweg, the original developer of Wordpress was in town and was willing to come and hang out, each lunch and chat for a couple of hours about anything. Matt is a very cool guy not only because he [...]

President Hinckley passed away sunday night. He was 97. It isn’t possible to say enough good about a man whose example to all was unity, peace, and to “do a little better” and “stand a little taller”. Whether you are LDS or not those values are universal and something anyone can live [...]

My second Facebook application is up. I and Marion built something to help you and your friends enjoy the lighter side of life. Try out Indulgences.

This morning at the Open Education 2007 conference David Wiley announced our new conference application 51weeks. I wrote the code so if you have any feedback or run into problems feel free to post comments here and we’ll get right on it.