As we mentioned last week, the White House recently opened up its first-ever public wiki, for feedback about ExpertNet, a proposed platform for collecting expert feedback from the public. Given that our mission's a close fit for the goals of ExpertNet, we wanted to begin by talking about how the work we've done with the ThinkUp platform at Expert Labs could serve some parts of the request today, and even more in the future. (Obviously, ExpertNet and Expert Labs have similar names, but we're just two different projects with similar goals.) The ExpertNet proposal lays out four main steps for... | Continue »

via 4.bp.blogspot.com Blogger Melodie and her buddy spent 12 hours making this gingerbread version of Frank Lloyd Wrights' Falling Water. More pics at the link above. | Continue »

The last thing I would imagine the world would need is a *new* blog app, but [Anil suggested just that][personalcomment] in response to my post on building a journal mesh: > I think the best thing that could happen right now to encourage long-form sharing, though, would be having tools... | Continue »

You may have heard that Delicious is shutting down (or not?). Someone on Twitter suggested that a group of engineers should get together on a weekend and build a Delicious clone. In anticipation of this mystery group of people sitting... | Continue »

Above is the fruit of a few months of work: various instances of people saying something close to, "We're not in Kansas anymore." Despite the fact that no one gets the original line from the The Wizard of Oz completey... | Continue »

At the risk of turning this into a Ken Norton reblog, via a comment from him on yesterday's Groupon copywriting post comes the Public Groupon Voice Guide, "intended to help new and applying writers lean Groupon's signature writing style." The... | Continue »

via www.theatlantic.com "Every year, white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was." | Continue »

Louis CK told his fans on Friday night via Twitter to catch his most recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, saying "2nd segment was the funnest time I evr had on a talk show." Sic sic! So... | Continue »

How have blogs changed, and what's there to miss about them? [fluffy just wrote][fluffy] some good thoughts that dovetail with a project I'd like to work on, so I thought I'd respond at a little more length. ### The current impasse ### Why does no one offer modern blogging with... | Continue »

Strictly speaking, Leapfrog should be an app, not a web site. There are several reasons: * *Leapfrog collects data speculatively.* When you sign in, it gets permission from that service to ask it on your behalf for your new stream data, then does so even when you haven't used Leapfrog... | Continue »

I'm getting some wonky vibes from the redesign of the private Facebook profile. The left-most column is fine with clearer navigational elements below the userpic, and the wall is just as ugly as ever. Targeted friend suggestions at the upper... | Continue »

If something was wrong with Friendster, you could have just told it so. Whatever your issue was, it would have been a hundred times better to let Friendster know what was wrong than to just disappear and leave Friendster to... | Continue »

My husband and I have this ongoing argument that probably will continue until there is no Internet. Basically, "one" of us thinks that posting items to one's blog is a perfectly acceptable mode of sharing what one is doing and/or... | Continue »

I've been working with Martin on a new version of [Leapfrog][], the neighborhood reader we've been building in various forms for a while. I haven't really put down any thoughts about this iteration, though, so here perhaps are some. @markpasc is there a blog post or something describing what leapf... | Continue »

We're still here, and we're all doing well. Thanks again to Grandma Nancy and Aunt Rebecca for EVERYTHING (not least for the multiple feasts they prepared!). It was so nice to have them here this first week; we really could... | Continue »

So by now you've heard that Vivienne Marie Boelter was born on Monday, November 22, but you may not have heard the crazy story of how! Monday morning Amy was three days overdue, but there was really no change in... | Continue »