Gordon's Notes

One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...

These are the last days of app.net. It ends in 3 days. App.net has been good to me . Great tools, smart and interesting people, RSS integrat...

Twitter is racing app.net to the grave. Google social is almost as forgotten as Apple’s flails. Maciej Cegłowski 's  Pinboard  though,...

My ( @johngordon ) App.net services are beginning to fail - including PourOver . Post counts are gone. I still find some great discussions; ...

I still want a graph layer atop my notes . Yes, I want my personal locally stored data unlocked  memex . Since the passing fad of the web ...

Early in my post-corporate days I wrote a detailed post on how I expected to do project management going forwards . Since then I’ve experime...

Google Reader died just 3 years ago . It feels a lot longer, I’m probably thinking of when Google burned Reader Social in favor of their G+ ...

If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...

I knew Google Trends was “a thing”, but it had fallen off my radar. Until I wondered if Craigslist was going the way of Rich Text Format ....

My circumstances have changed. I may have more to say on that later; even in the sort term it is probably a change for the better. But of co...

I first published a Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January 2009 , at the dawn of Dapocalypse . This was six months after the Battle of ...

Being new-old means learning to be deliberative about things that were once opportunistic. I used to get my exercise whenever I could — now...

My feeds (Feedbin/Reeder) have never gone quiet — but there’s no doubt it was getting harder to find links to feeds over the two years since...

I plan to expire at 85 , 10 years later than Ezekiel Emanuel  [1]. My Dad is a bit less directed; at 92 he recently moved into the longterm ...

Revisiting  something I wrote 14 years ago  reminded me of the tools I use to think about the world. Once those tools were conversation, pap...

I joined App.net  ($5/month or $36/year) about five months ago . Although it's fundamentally a messaging infrastructure it's curren...

Over the past ten years I've been the manager for a variety of hockey and baseball teams. Along the way I've tried a variety of tech...

It's been two years since  I first looked at XMind . During that time I used MindManager at work and experimented with MindNode Pro at ...

I was mildly (cough) irked (cough) when Google Reader Shares died. My Pinboard/IFTTT/Twitter/WordPress replacement works better than it ough...

I follow about 150-250 active blogs including the "Core" blogs I read religiously . It's a good reading list, far superior to...