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My 2015 Weekly Book Project
A little over a year ago I embarked on a journey. I noticed that I was listening to a LOT of podcasts: on my commute, at work, on the treadmill, cooking. I really couldn’t stop. What made me notice the frequency was the fact that I had finished the backlog of This Week in Startups and saw that…
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Watch the video of my WordCampNYC talk!
WordPress: YOUR World, YOUR Data Watch it on WordPress.tv The slides
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Example #2: How WordPress Assets Manager Replaced Our Sharefile
Two weeks ago I spoke at WordCamp NYC and demonstrated various ways you can augment your site by replacing or just importing various services you use. I brought three examples, last week I wrote about the first, Twitter. The second service on the chopping block was ShareFile. At the company I work at we were using ShareFile, which is…
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Example #1: Augmenting Ozh’s Twitter Archiver
Last week I spoke at WordCamp NYC and demonstrated various ways you can augment your site by replacing or just importing various services you use. The first service on the chopping block was Twitter. “I’m not about to delete my account, but wouldn’t I wouldn’t want to lose the thousands of witticisms I’ve tweeted over the years, if…
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WordPress SiteHacks
Or, How to leverage WordPress to do cool stuff to your site I gave at talk at WordCamp NYC this month, so I thought I’d explore some of the ideas I touched upon in blog form. WORDPRESS, YOUR WORLD, YOUR DATA Too many companies provide social services for “free,” quite literally banking on your data.…
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Are Online Services EVIL?
Edit – October 14, 2018 – Since the 2016 elections, the revelations about Cambridge Analytica, and more stories about Facebook trying to overstep the privacy bounds I am no longer convinced that there aren’t bad intentions. At best they’re negligent. I’ll be giving at talk at WordCamp NYC this month, so I thought I’d explore…
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Proof of Concept: I made my very own Foursquare (Swarm) on WordPress… and you can too
I’ve always loved the concept of Foursquare. Sharing locations is awesome, although somewhat creepy. How do you leverage the awesomeness while avoiding the creepy factor? Sadly today it’s basically impossible to protect yourself against being tracked, if you have a mobile phone. But I’m not going to give away my apartment key to everyone around,…
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What is the Ideal Advertising Platform?
I’ll be giving at talk at WordCamp NYC this month, so I thought I’d explore some of the ideas I’ll be touching on in blog form. I’d love your feedback below to further my research. This essay delves into an aspect of owning your own data vs. being someone else’s product. Speaking personally, as a…
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Last Song Before Night By Ilana C. Myer
I’m a proud husband, what can I say. I know on this blog I don’t normally stray from my usual topics about tech, and development. But I would be amiss if I did not mention this huge event in our life. So I hope you’ll forgive this digression. I’m a not-so-closet geek complete with a…
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Jack Reichert 