There's a interview with me in the local weekly Hour. It got right most of what I do for a living. So often with interviews I talk and talk and talk and the reporter ends up extracting the least pertinent statements. I'm glad that didn't happen this time. I even like the photo. I was supposed to send some source code to the photographer to put over my face, but I never got around to it. I can't see what they put over my face; can anyone make it out? tags: me press interview work hour wiki
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5 Floréal CCXVI
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April 24 2008, 6:55am | Comments »
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I posted to evan.prodromou.name
23 Germinal CCXVI
http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/23_Germinal_CCXVI
Jeez, I wasn't involved in the nomination process this year, so I completely missed the fact that Wikitravel is a nominee for the Webby Awards this year. I'm now a part of IADAS so there's a conflict-of-interest for me, but I'd recommend checking out the People's Voice Webby Voting. tags: wiki wikitravel webbyawards Sign your mail I find it a little mind-boggling how many people complain about problems of email identity, like spam, e-mail spoofing and phishing, yet don't do anything on their own side to encourage strong identity on email. Everybody should use digital signatures on their email as a matter of course. It is absurdly easy to set up a GnuPG key for your email address. It takes only a few minutes. And you can sign up for an S/MIME key, too -- about $20/year, and supported even more widely by email clients. And organizations should send out email with signatures, too. Welcome email, password updates, and the like should all be signed. Phishing gets a lot harder when consumers are used to digitally-signed mail. If we're really serious about email abuse, we need to take the extra step at the client level. tags: email pgp gnupg smime phishing spam
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April 12 2008, 8:15am | Comments »
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22 Germinal CCXVI
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It's been a long time since I've written on my blog; longer than I'd like. I really want to get back in the swing of it, if only to keep this entire site from bitrotting interminably. My Alexa ranking has dropped to like >1M, which in my Web-addled state means that my personal worth has dropped, too. I know, I know. tags: blog me alexa Conference of the Americas: Cancelled I was sorry to see that the Wikimedia Conference of the Americas, scheduled for mid-May, has been canceled. There was some controversy when this conference was announced last fall; it partly originated from a bid by the Atlanta Wikimedia community to host Wikimania. I'm kind of sad to see that it's not going to happen. I like Atlanta a lot, and I think there is a really good case to be made for regional (or at least continental) Wikimedia conferences. I hope this isn't a nail in the coffin for such a regional event in North America. On the flip side, it'd be really nice to see a more detailed explanation of what happened; of what future plans for the COTA are; and just generally a little more communication. tags: cota atlanta wikimedia wikimania wiki Elsewhere in wikidom That all said, things are looking really cool for Wikimania over the next 12 months. I'm really glad to see that my South American home-away-from-home, Buenos Aires, won the chance to host the 2009 Wikimania event. With 2008's event in Alexandria, Egypt, I think we've got some seriously interesting ground to cover Wikimedia-wise. Also of importance: if you haven't received an invite yet, get yourself over to RecentChangesCamp 2008. The wiki unconference will be happening for the first time in the Bay Area (California). We'll be meeting over May 9-11 in the offices of SocialText in Palo Alto. I can't say enough good things about RecentChangesCamp. It has been instrumental in my understanding of wikis and my connection with the worldwide wiki community. If you are at all interested in wikis or related concepts, you should think hard about coming to this conference. tags: wikimania recentchangescamp rcc2008 Brain bits I think microrevie.ws is pretty cool. I got the 100th review today! Yay for me. Speaking of twitter stuff, I dig twittermap, but I don't always remember to update. IWBNI there was a portal to/from Fire Eagle. tags: microreviews hreview twitter twittermap fireeagle
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April 11 2008, 12:40pm | Comments »
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Evan Prodromou co-founded vinismo.com
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July 28 2007, 2:40pm | Comments »
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wikitravel.org is the Best Travel Website.
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May 2 2007, 9:16am | Comments »
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Lion Kimbro has a CommunityWiki user page at http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/LionKimbro
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February 6 2007, 9:28pm | Comments »
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