A lightweight, cross-browser compatible JavaScript library for selecting DOM elements by node, class, and ID without a framework.

A simple, responsive WordPress theme for my personal site that showcases projects separately from blog posts. Uses Twitter Bootstrap and Font Awesome icons.

Pick-a-Color is an easy-to-use jQuery color picker for Twitter Bootstrap.

A revision of the Patch homepage designed to promote serendipitous content discovery. Based on extensive usability testing and focus groups.

A usability testing-driven revamp of Patch’s events section designed to help users find and share events more effectively.

A presentation I gave at Mashery’s Business of API conference about how Outside.in’s API helped us form new business relationships.

The Outside.in Hyperlocal News API (now the Patch API) allows developers to integrate hyperlocal news from more than 70,000 sources in the US into their applications and websites.

A presentation I gave at NextNY’s Product Manager School on the role of analytics in product management.

A Rails site built in 2008 to show the connection between public data sources and the interfaces people create with them.

Version 1.1.0 of Pick-a-Color is now available, featuring a new “advanced” tab that allows users to modify hue, lightness, and saturation to create any color their hearts desire. Plus: some modifications suggested by my friend Alex Cox. You can check out the documentation, read my original post about Pick-a-Color or look over the source code [...]

On Friday I went to ReadWriteWeb‘s Real-Time Web Summit, repping outside.in and generally looking to find out what all the unconference craze was about and meet some nice fellow NYC geeks. I had a pretty great time (much better than I expected after this rather patronizing promo post for the event), so I thought I’d [...]

Here’s a great compilation of interviews on the semantic web put together by one Kate Ray: Fave Quotes Clay Shirky: If I was going to start a news business tomorrow, I would start a news business designed to produce not one new bit of news, but instead to aggregate news for individuals in ways that [...]

Turns out I’m not alone in memory-is-an-illusion kick. Just the day after I posted that, Kottke gave a nice shout-out to this funny new blog called You Are Not So Smart. Dude is chronicling all the ways in which we delude himself. In other words: He picked the perfect topic for a blog. His subject [...]

I’ve got what I’d call a crappy long-term memory. My earliest memory is from kindergarten. All my classmates were stretched out on their cots in the dark for naptime. I stayed awake because my mother was on her way to pick me up. We were going to get my first pair of glasses. My mom [...]

My mom just sent me this dermatome chart (actually, she sent me this more useful chart, but the first link is prettier). [More on dermatomes here.] And of course the first thing that sprang to mind was: “Hey, phrenology wasn’t as bat-shit insane as I previously considered it.” I mean, ok, it was really crazy. [...]

Here’s a timelapse I made of the snow in my (new!) backyard in Brooklyn of the snow today from 9:10 a.m. to about 5:30 p.m. (when I ran out of daylight): Embedded video doesn’t work in most RSS readers, so you may have to check out the original post. Set to the first 11 seconds [...]

It’s February! The month of Valentine’s Day and the Super Bowl; the shortest, coldest month of the year in the Northern Hemisphere; and, yes, the month named for the whips that pagans once cut from the animals they sacrificed, which were used to whip girls and women in celebration of the nascent Valentine’s Day holiday [...]