Author Archives: Boone Gorges

Shorten your own dang URLs

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Boone Gorges

In my last Project Reclaim post, I talked about using WordPress as a Twitpic-like personal mobile photo service. When the ultimate goal of the photoblog is to send a tweet, it’s almost always necessary to use a URL shortener. But trusting your URL shortening to a free service is a dangerous move. If that service [...] Continue reading →

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Kicking the Twitpic habit with WordPress

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Boone Gorges

Twitpic and its ilk are pretty convenient, especially when they’re integrated into mobile Twitter apps. But as recent articles have shown, the terms of service of such services can be downright icky. Twitpic may have changed its tune a few days after the outcry, but honestly, if it takes an outcry to make a company [...] Continue reading →

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Making the Thunderbird interface more Gmail-y

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Boone Gorges

As part of Project Reclaim, I’m gearing up to move my email off of Gmail and onto my own server. Email is, and long has been, central to my life online – it’s my main point of contact for so many personal and professional connections, and my email archives are the closest thing I’ve got [...] Continue reading →

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Project Reclaim

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Boone Gorges

Update: I have begun aggregating these posts at projectreclaim.net. Lately I have been feeling increasingly uneasy about the state of my digital affairs. I am a leader on a number of open source software projects that pride themselves on, among other things, their ability to enable users to “own their own data”. Moreover, I am [...] Continue reading →

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