Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal

Harper Reed: Software, PHP, MySQL, YoYo, Juggling, Baphomet

Wikipedia is hard to use. WTF Search.

So. I love Wikipedia. I love encyclopedias. I love the knowledge and the ability to learn anything quickly. Wikipedia is special because it allows people to contribute their knowledge to the general content base. This is awesome. This alone is enough of a differentiation to make Wikipedia the choice for the new generation. But wtf [...]

Just a warning to all who would read this - i think i was a bit tipsy when writing it. so it is very very ranting and probably doesn’t make sense.

I have been playing around in my head with scenarios of what must happen when an organization which has a philosophy of using only open [...]

So Wikipedia is getting a lot of coverage for all of the doings of the wikimedia foundation ($100 Laptop Partnership, Wikiversity, Wikiwyg). A lot of amazing stuff. And not only amazing - but helpful and really community friendly. I think that Wikipedia is really in a place to change the world. However - with that [...]

So i think it is awesome that seth godin was able to “convince” google to give joel on software a google search appliance. That is amazing. I mean - Joel probably needed a better search engine, but what makes me mad is this:
Wikipedia needs a better search engine more than joel on software needs a [...]

  

Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer and software architect involved in social networks and the open source software. I am very happily employed as the CTO to the awesome skinnyCorp in Chicago, IL. We make some really cool stuff. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.

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