Geek Pride

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Stephane Daury

See, this is what happens when you celebrate a company‘s 1st birthday at an event called Startup Drinks. Turns out I couldn’t look like a gangsta even if I tried. ;)

New WordPress Hoodie

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Stephane Daury

Couretsy of Automattic. :)

New Site: I ♥ iPhone Photos

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Stephane Daury

Started a new quick site over lunch today: http://iloveiphonephotos.com/

I keep finding stunning photos taken with iPhones and always thought I should keep track of them.
So be it. You can also suggest your own findings.

The other incentive behind it, for me, is to showcase how easy it is to start a curation or tumble blog on WordPress.com.

It took me 15 minutes to get the whole thing setup, including:

custom domain,
choosing a theme,
setting up the options to automatically push new posts to Facebook and Twitter,
a photo suggestion form
and more.

Add another 15 to find and post, even schedule, a few picts using Press This to get the ball going and voilà.

Hoping you’ll like the picts as much as I do.

Dvorak on Facebook vs. WordPress

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Stephane Daury

Facebook is retro because, like AOL, it’s retro by its nature. It’s a closed system. Some people like a closed comfy system and others don’t. I, for one, don’t. If I want a personal webpage with all sorts of information about myself, I’ll go to WordPress.com and make one. By doing this, I don’t turn over any data, control, or information to an onerous third party to sell, use, or exploit. I can close down the site when I want. I can say what I want. I can pretty much do whatever.

Via Why I Don’t Use Facebook | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com (found via Zé).