I just commented elsejournal (in a discussion of ethics) that Querki is trying to avoid the "My business model is dependent on keeping your eyeballs glued to the screen" syndrome. That's worth a little more thought ( Read more... )

Just came across this interesting article on Medium. It's worth reading through -- it's not horribly long, and it points out that your music-streaming dollars (assuming you use one of the music-streaming services) probably don't support your favorite artists to the extent you expect -- but the tl;dr is that if you're a light user, your ( Read more... )

Time for a quick survey.

Background
A lot of my time and attention at the moment is being spent on Photos in Querki. It turns out, as I go through my Use Cases, that Photos aren't just a nice-to-have -- the ability to add Photos as a first-class data type, easily, in a controlled way, is one of Querki's real power features, and I'm finding that ( Read more... )

[tl;dr: Querki finally enters Beta today. I'd love to have people come try it out; drop me an email or comment here if you'd like to try it ( Read more... )

Out of curiosity, I decided to check how big, in raw lines of code, Querki has gotten. The current stats are:
[info] Code Statistics for project ( Read more... )

[Apologies to my friends at Google, but this has been nibbling at the back of my mind for a long time ( Read more... )

Things I do *not* look forward to spending Querki's membership money on: this story reminds me that Querki's ability to protect member privacy is going to depend, in part, on being able to afford enough lawyers to fight it when the government makes unreasonable demands. *Sigh*...

Just a quick pointer, for anyone who is interested and isn't already reading over there: after several months of quiet, I've just done a post to the Querki Development Journal, with the current state of things, including new features and talking about the new Querki Client ( Read more... )

On the one hand, I'm a bit cranky that it took me a *long* time -- 4-6 hours -- to code up the casting questionnaire for A Respectful Calm in Querki. That's unacceptable, IMO: *nothing* should take me more than an hour ( Read more... )

The UPS guy just rang the doorbell; the box he was dropping off turns out to contain my new business cards ( Read more... )