What caused Wikipedia’s decline?

Newsweek this week published “Take This Blog and Shove It!” saying that “Crowd Sourcing Loses Steam” and wondering why people didn’t want to edit Wikipedia anymore. They attributed it, among other things, to laziness. Blogging is down...

How wide should your website be?

Apple.com uses a content width of 984. I didn’t know that until after I wrote this post, but I came to about the the same conclusion. Read on to find out why… Simple statistics… Of visitors to websites in mid-2010 (source): A quarter (24.3%) were using a...

A summary of the Thesis for WordPress legal saga and outcome

UPDATE 4. The former thesis business partner Brian Clark has joined forces with a different WordPress theme framework, StudioPress. UPDATE 3. Well, everything has changed. Here’s a quote from the founder of WordPress. Thesis has done the bare minimum not to be...

Why we sold our iPad

Updates: I later purchased an HP Touchpad for $99, and much later, an iPad mini. “So, you’re an early adopter.” I heard this far too many times when people found out my wife and I bought an iPad. A partial inference being we were willing to accept...